Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

evening, was we'll attended by an
audience of thoughtful people who
gave him their undivided attention.
Prof. Herring was introduced by Prof.
Irving e. Vining, who spoke briefly
but eloquently, speaking of the rise
of freedom of thought and individual
Investigation and paying high tribute
TO Christian Science as a religion
which brings health, peace and solace
10 a troubled age He then intro
duced Prof. Herring a member of the
Board of Lectureship OF the Mother
Church, The First Church of Christi
Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts,
who spoke as follows:
The healing so universally accom-
plished through Christian Science is
probably the one feature of its work
which attracts the most attention and
which has been most misunderstood,
since its methods are purely mental
and spiritual, the direct opposite of
those employed by the ordinary
schools of therapeutics. That heal
ing has resulted when Christian Sci
ence treatment has been applied af-
ter all other means have failed, is
now quite generally conceded; but
the manner in which this healing is
accomplished is so far from being un-
derstood that there is still a great
reluctance on the part of many to
avail themselves of it, and some still
question its possibility. This, how
ever, can be just as truthfully said
of the healings which are chronicled
in the Scriptures, especially in the
New Testament where the spiritual
means of healing is plainly referred
TO and advocated, and where many
instances of healing are specifically
named.
In Exodus we read 81 am the
Lord that healeth thee" in Psalms
God is referred to as He who heal
eth all thy diseases" and again, He
sent his word, and healed them" In
Marks gospel we read, "These signs
shall follow them that believe; In
my name shall they cast out devils;
they shall speak with new tongues;
they shall take up serpents; and II
they drink any deadly thing, it shall
not hurt them; they shall lay hands
on the sick, and they shall recover"
These citations show that mankind
should look to a spiritual source for
their healing instead of to drugs.
Had God created drugs and given
them healing power, Christ Jesus.
who came to show us the way of sal
walton, or deliverance from sin, dis
ease and death, would certainly have
used them himself and recommended
them to others. His own success in
healing proves that he fully under
stood healing art which has no re-
course to material means.
Instances of Healing.
Among the notable instances of the
healing of physical disease by Christ
Jesus as recorded in the New Testa~
ment are these: The healing of pa
ralysis OLuke v. 1920, of leprosy
(Luke xviii HID, of deformity
Guke xiii. lid, of blindness
SNatt. tx. 27-3D, of fever (Luke iv
80, 39), of dropsy Uuke xiv. PA,
OF hemorrhage Matt. tx. 20-22), of
violent insanity MARK V. 1-2O), and
of epilepsy MARK tx. 1920. The
gospels also record Jesus work in
the raising of the dead, as Jairus
daughter (Luke viii. 1850, the
widows son nuke vii. 11-15), and
Lazarus, after he had been dead four
days John XII l-4D.
Many cases are also recorded as
having been healed by the disciples
and by some of Jesus followers who
were not his personal students. In
Acts ". 12) we read, And by the
hands of the apostles were many
signs and wonders wrought" Peter
healed a man lame from birth (Acts
iii. 2-S), healed Aeneas of paralysis
(Acts tx. 32-35), raised Dorcas
(Acts tx. 36-4D. Paul healed
cripple (Acts xiv S-10), healed Pub
Iius' father of fever and hemorrhage
(Aets xviii 81, raised Eutychus to
life after his accident (Acts Xxx.
9-12), healed himself of the sting OF
a poisonous serpent (Acts xviii.
Boy. Philip. who like Paul was not
Jesus personal student, healed insan-
ity, paralysis and lameness (Acts viii.
q, ~. The seventy are reported as
having returned to Jesus to tell OF
their healing work, saying, Even the
devils are subject unto us through
fhy name"
These cases show Enthusiastically
that Christian healing was effected
by spiritual and rot material means;
they teach that we should look not
20 matter but to divine Mind for the
true healing power. the power which
was utilized by Christ Jesus and his
disciples. In the case of congenital
blindness healed by Jesus. of which
John tells us, there was evidently no
healing virtue in the clay and spittle,
nor in the water of the pool of ST.
loan. for II there had been, these
universally available means would he
IN use today for the cure of this
disease.
Skepticism as 60 Spiritual Healing.
To be consistent all professed be-
Hevers in the Bible must therefore
admit the fact of spiritual healing.
which, according to contemporaneous
secular writer's and historians, con-
tinued among the early Christians for
about three hundred years; and yet
today the vast majority do not be-
lieve in IT, and many do not even
admit II to be historically true, while
not few deny it's possibility. Some
shy that these events may have hap
pened in Jesus time. but are impossi-
ble now. This Is neither logical nor
reasonable. The power of God Is
1.-The same yesterday, and today, and
forever" and II this healing took
place in the first century, II can take
place now, since every divine law and