Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-07

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 With respect to the first class, those who say that it is impossible, it car only be answerel that through Chris tian Science all kinds of diseases have been healed. This cannot be denied The entire Christian Science move ment is made up of people who have been healed. Most of the them turned to Christian Science as failed to get relief through other channels. Christian Science churches are built with money con- tributed as thank offering to God by those who have been healed through Christian Science. The persol in this day who denies that Christian Science heals the sick is merely closing his eyes to what he does not wish to see. 1t is fact that Christian Science does heal all manner of disease and suffering, and it is a fact for which every one should be grateful.
 With respect to the second class, those who thing that it is unscriptural for Christian Science to teach that the sick may be healed without drugs, by medius of prayer. 1 will say that it is difficult to understand how any person who has studied the Bible or believes in God, can be troubled by such question. It seems obvious that people who pray to God for everything they desire might also be expected to pray to Him for deliver ance from sickness as we'll as from sin.
 Christian Science declares without any equivocation that the truth taught by Jesus, when rightly understood and rightly applied, is sufficient with out the aid of anything else whatso ever both to heal the sick and to re- generate the sinner This, then, gives us starting point from which to begin to measure Christian Science with the Scriptures.
 It must be admitted that Jesus heal cd the sick by metaphysical and rot by physical means. He did not ad. minister drugs nor recommend their use, and yet he healed the sick, in some manner and by some process that was infallible. Organic diseases yielded to his treatment as readily as those that were purely functional. People who were born blind and with crooked and misshapen bodies found themselves restored to normal con- ditions under his pathological treat ment as readily as those who were suffering from levers or insanity.
 The question is, How did he do it, and is it possible for human beings pclW walking the earth to learn his method so as to be able to produce cures in the same way?
 Many believe that Jesus was able to do his wonderful works because he was divine, and therefore that it is impossible to do the works he did and even blasphemous for any person to claim to do them. This, however, will not explain the exercise of the same power by his disciples, and by the nor .I,tj J,i said anything to justify such belief On the contrary, he apparently took every precaution to prevent such a theory from becoming prevalent.
 In a conversation With his disciples concerning this very matter, recorded in the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John, he said in the 10th verse: ''Believest thou not that l am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that l speak unto you l speak not of my self; but the Father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works This was equivalent to saying that God is Mind and that lie dwelt ill Mind and Mind in him so that he of himself did not do anything, but it was God operating through him that did the works.
 Giving all honor and power to the Father he said, "the Son can do noth- ing of himself"
 On all occasions Jesus denied that he had any power in or of himself. and declared always that it was God operating through him that enabled him to do the works. He likewise declared that the divine power, oYera- ting through him, was available to every one and could be possessed and exercised by every one who accepted his teachings and fulfilled their re- quirementS.
 In this connection it is significant that Jesus never at any time sent oat his disciples to preach without tell