The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-10-23

| God causes life to flow naturally. We
can help, or hinder, or even stop that
stream of life by the way we use or
misuse it. Yet, away up at the foVn-
tain-head, God can turn on or off That
stream of life in infinite wisdom at
his will. Over this man can and
should have no control
Those who claim to possess mir
aculous healing power as a reward of
their superior faith and grace, APP
propriate to themselves the miracu-
lous control of Gods natural stream
of healing and life-giving power,
while other Christians notice that
Gods mercy allows these same bles-
sings to fall upon the just and the
unjust and upon all animal and vege-
table life. Blessed are they who
have not seen (the risen Lord and
yet have belief" Christ prayed not
only for his disciples, but also for all
them which shall believe on Him
through their word, not through pow
ers to work miracles like the disciples.
1t requires stronger faith to believe
without seeing Christ and the mira
culous, than it would if we see him
and the miraculous manifestations of
His power. In Mark 10, II and Is.
Just before His ascension, Christ
foretold what would take place at
Pentecost and other places, just as
he foretold his own death and resur
Y rection on previous occasions When
we ask a miraculous healer to give
sight to the blind, speech to the dumb,
or cure palsy, dropsy, leporsy or con-
sumption, or any of the maligent dis
eases, they fail sadly, miserably and
absolutely. When deadly disease
takes hold, our death warrant has
been signed. With the vagabond
Jews, exorcists of whom we read in
Acts 10, 1916, we might class the
miraculous healers of our day. God
has an all-wise purpose beyond af-
Fiction and death and we should say
Even SO Father for SO it seemeth
, good in thy sight THE Lord gave
| and has taken away, blessed be the
name of the Lord" "Thy will be
done" Gods existing laws are his
revealed will. Devils and wicked or
| perverse men have always been seek
ing the miraculous from God The
Devil asked Christ to put God to the
test for miraculous deliverance from
natural law BY casting himself down
from the mountain top, while with
satanic meanness he distorts Ps 81,
HIP. Jesus answered: 1T is written,
| thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy
God" The rich man (dives) in Hell
and in torment lifted up his eyes to
Abraham requesting the miraculous
} resurrection of Lazarus, to warn his
, brothers that they nights not follow
, his into perdition. The request was
denied on the grounds that if they
did not believe Moses and the pro-
!, phets, they would not believe though
one should rise from the dead. The
Pharasees> and Sadducees came to
Christ tempting him and asked him
: for sign from Heaven to whom
Christ answered thus: "A wicked and
, adulterous generation seeketh after
sign and there shall no sign be given
unto it but the sign of the prophet
] Jonas and he left them and departed. "
S We need no more signs from Heaven
and no more miracles. God has am
ply provided all necessary blessings
spiritual and physical for his believing
children in his moral and natural
: laws. Christ instantly and miracul-
, ously turned water into wine. Men
make wine to-day under natural and
civil laws, not miraculously Christ
e instantly and miraculously cured
= Peters wife's mother of a fever
Physicians under Gods natural laws
prevent and cure fever to-day but not
q instantly or miraculously. Christ in
stantly and miraculously raised Lag
: arus from the dead, but no living man
n to-day can restore the spirit of life
c yet through the exercise of faith and
patience we shall SOME day in Gods
own time and way see all men rise
E rise from the dead. This wonderful
i event shall reward our faith and full.
i fill natural law. Lord teach us tC
pray as John also thaught his dis.
| ciples." There is no supernatural re.
5 quest in the prayer Christ taught tc
. his disciples. 1t reveales mans right
attitude towards God as compared
with the attitude of a loving child tc
its father Nothing could be more
> natural. 1t is in perfect keeping with
! Gods moral and natural law that we
; and dear ones through grace, faith and
! prayer are born again, regenerated
i saved and made alive for evermore
d through the atoing blood of the great
, Redeemer. In many cases through
; Gods healing and life-giving stream
: in answer to humble and resigned
prayer, it's as natural for us and our
dear ones to recover from sickness as
. il is for us to die, while we and our
. physical laws, using the means or the
:, medicine at hand, be the remedy a
) ooultice of figs, or annointment with
J oil, it matters but little. Our rccov-
) cry is certain, il God has not with.
! drawn his life-giving and healing
= stream.
Unless the Lord the city keep,
= The watchmen watch in vain.
: Unless the Lord the building build
The builders build in vain.
n Pray for the moral degenerate but
Il do not expect a miraculous answer
= Work constantly and lovingly to save
V the unfortunate. Sanctihcation' is a
a work that must be done in Gods own
5 time and way Remember the soul
f that Sinneth, it shall die He that
5 soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh
= reap corruption" Yet, God has no
o pleasure in our spiritual or physical