The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-11-13


of each present the Covenant of Divine Healing as
found in Exodus Is 26.
want Elder Carey to read this verse, and want you
all to turn to it, and after you have read it, find
in or anywhere else in the Word OF GodhoW either you
expect God to bestow any blessings when we
are living far beneath privileges and opportunities and
trampng beneath feet the light which God has caused
to shine upon pathway would like you to show it to
People not only responsible for what they DO know
but that which they have opportunity of knowing
People come here for teaching, and for prayer for
healing who BEFORE perhaps except through having
read copy of the LEAVES HEALING or from having
heard few words spoken by ZION worker out in the ed
heard of Divine Healing; before have they been
taught and they here to receive the teaching
What is necessary for such one to do?
It is necessary for that person, to in here with
mind and heart open receive the truth. IT, you sit
here in this meeting you saying to yourself the words
"He cannot teach anything, brought up in the
Methodist Church. or, 81 brought up Baptist
II brought up Presbyterian, pooh what does he
know? he cannot teach anything And another will
say, II have attended church services all life and we
have good preacher he cannot teach me anything more
than know If there any here this afternoon with
that kind Of spirit then you simply wasting your time
by coming to this meeting You must here with your
mind and heart open to receive the truth is shown to
from the Word of Cod and the truth you will hear
in ZION, knock all of the Methodism the Presby
teriansm out of whatever other ism may be- and
before you have been sitting here long, you find
out that you have been believing great many
Now, unless you wling-unless, you sit here
this afternoon you have willing heart cast off all
and to open your mind and heart to the truth is set
forth in Gods Word then you will not receive any blessing
from the Hand of God AS you suffer from this disease
and that disease you may say, Lord, heard of
Divine Healing until few days ago or ga few weeks
Lord have always been taught that You made people
SICK and that You them and consumption and
tumors, and afflicted them in other ways and
told before that these foul diseases the work of
the devil ignorant, but Lord here am, my heart is
open to receive Thy truth, and promise You, my Cod
You give the light, that will walk in the light And
then you will receive some blessing from God.
Those of you upon whose pathway years the light
of Righteousness shone in such great beauty, those
you who taught this truth and that truth and
other truths in ZoN those of you who tasted of the goodness
of Godbut SINCE have proven unfahfu and have turned
your backs upon the light and have nned against full light
let exort to seek repentance before God do not
know of anything in the Bible that would warrant in
holding out to this afternoon the hope that you
blessing from God when you have been unaithfu
If could only say this afternoon all that has been running
through my mind as have thought of this text
s'YET LACKEsT THOU ONE THING" -
would saw that you cannot do you
please and not get into trouble.
Almost every day there come to persons saying,
Pray for me- say to them Glow long is it since you
first heard of oN?"-"Five years; ten years."
E'Have you been baptized? "-"Yes."
"Do you attend the Church services with heart full
of earnestness? -No; used to do So do not now?"
Do you pray for the General Overseer in his arduous
tolls No put in most of my time criticisng and find
ing fault with him. and picking flaws in the LEAVES OF
HEALING etc."
"And yet you have here for me to pray for you
have you?'-"Yes."
Of course you fully expect that God is going to halt
all the angels and archanges and crubs and seraphs
all the hosts of Heaven and command them 90 to your
and then they do not answer but their look is
as much as to say "Wel, He ought to do So"
Now, will tell you, those of you who in trouble
todaysome of in trouble because you have been
unfaithfu to your God-and say with trembling before
God there many others in ranks who going to
get into very serious trouble they will heed the Cos
pei trumpet and obey the Word of God cannot keep them
out of trouble; I am not God! God has created you!
God says in His Word that if have His bless
ings bestowed upon us, then WE MUST oBEDIENT.
cannot expect my God to hear and prayer for
la who is full of the devil of pride!
cannot expect my God to work miracle upon poor,
miserable DID, stngy coveous who will sit under the
preaching and resist the power of the Holy Spirit!
cannot expect God to open the windows of Heaven and
pour out His blessings upon and who do they
like and go as they please!
My brothers and sisters, this afternoon speaking
in sense, dying unto dying and women
am speaking as though this be message and