The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-05-24
Another Reply to Chas. Mckay

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May 1 make few comments on Mr..
Chas. McKay's rejoinder in re-
cent issue of your paper.
He says everything that is real
cannot be destroyed" Would he
have us then to understand that
slavery in the United States for
which SO many fought and died to
destroy, was net real--never exist
ed here? Or that the Equitable
building, which was destroyed by
fire short time ago in New York,
was not real thing?
Or, if we reverse his statement,
and say only unreal things can be
destroyed, it would be a peculiar
use of language, it seems to me, to
talk about destroying something
that never had an existence. The
fact that a thing has been destroyed
is proof that the thing previously
existed.
He asks, eff pain and suffering
are real what would be the use of
our doctors trying to help those
suffering?" It seems to me there
would be great deal of use; in
fact is it not because pain and suf-
fering are "real" and people want
to be freed from them that doctors,
who profess to do that very thing,
are found among us, do business
and prosper? People know that if
they do not get relief from pain
and suffering, they being such real
things, that they will be killed by
them soon or later, and so are will
ling to pay doctors or any one else
who will deliver them, a good price
for their services.
Probably Mr.. Mckay thought
that way in the case of Mr.. Rosberg,
and so he got to work in a hurry.
Not for pay, though, but because
he wished him we'll. He knew that
if he himself had fallen fifty feet,
lighting upon pile of rock, he
would very likely experience some
real pain; therefore, he reasoned,
Mr.. Rosberg's suffering must be
real, and because of sympathy for
him and kind heart he wanted to
relieve Mr.. Rosberg from that real
pain and suffering just as soon as
he possibly could. If he had not
believed such to be the case I
think he would have acted very
differently - would probably not
have taken the chance of being
rolled on four or five times by a
2l0-lb. man down a rocky noun
tain side. His quick actiont go to
show he believed Mr.. Rosberg was
undergoing real pain, and if he did
not believe it then his heart was
better than his head, and Mr.. Ros-
berg has reason to be very thank
full for it.
Mr.. Mckay says, "by close
study of the language of the Bible
you will find that the word suffered
means he allowed it." On looking
it up we find the word suffered, !"
as applied to the perfecting of
Jesus and his followers, according
to Jas. Strong's Exhaustive Con-
cordance, means Ito experience a
sensation or impression Casually
painfully, feel, passion, suffer, vex."
Or as in Heb. 2:10 and Phil. 3:1O,
something undergone, i. g, hard
ship orpain." The word suffer-"
meaning "to let" or "allow," as
found in Mat. 1914, Acts 2:27 and
1876, is translated from other Greek
words and is not used in connec-
ton with Christ's suffering.
l
/ fail 10 see how Christ allowing
the Jews to nail him to the cross
in fulfillment of prophecy Fps. 22:16)
"proves" he could not have pains.
Or what it had to do with the peo-
pie seeing "his power of resurrec-
tion." Nor do / understand how
he draws '3proof" that "Christ
could not have pain" from the fact
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