Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14
ITS DIVINE AUTHORITY

speaker ne read these words, 1.-The |
spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
he hath anointed me to preach the |
Gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to !
heal the broken hearted, to preach |
deliverance to the captives, and recov-
ering of sight to the blind. to set at
liberty them that are bruised"
And a little later to John inquiry.
as to whether he were the Christ or
not. Jesus. knowing the incredibly |
given to mere words, sent this convinc-
ing reply, eco and show John again
those things which We do hear and see
The blind receive their sight. and the
lame walk. the lepers are cleansed,
and the deaf hear, the dead are raised
up. and the poor have the Gospel
preached unto them This is clear.
sweeping and comprehensive declara-
ton of the Christ mission In the
fourth chapter of Matthew it tells us
that Jesus went about Galilee healing
all manner of diseases and all manner
of sickness among the people, and in
the eighth chapter just after Jesus
came down from the mountain. where
he had preached the most wonderful
sermon known to man, he healed the
leper, healed the centurion's servant,
healed the mother of Peters wife and
when the even was come. they brought
unto him many that were sick and he
healed them all. This chapter is COM
posed of "a verses and % of them
divine power. The ninth chapter IS
composed of 38 verses, Is of them
relating to healing, and so on all
through Matthew, Mark. Luke and
John we find numerous instances of
Jesus healing the sick. Nowhere is
there the slightest reference to drugs
as an aid to healing, in fact no one
claims that Jesus used drugs All
admit that he healed by virtue of
divine power. Had there been no
other authority given as de from what
have quoted from the Bible we
would be justified in believing that the
principle of Christian healing had
been establishes for all time.
Every word that Jesus uttered, every
act he performed, taught some pro-
found lesson to the human race
Creeds. opinions, dogmas and so called
natural laws were set aside, for the
| time had now come when proof and
demonstration were summoned to the
support of Christianity, making wise
the simple. Hear We this imperative
command, 'Preach the gospel and heal
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and half of it has never been abrograE-
ed, if the first half of this comman3
was meant for all time, the other half
certainly was. So plain and dire,t is
this command that John Wesley caused
| to be incorporated into the ordinance
| for the conservation of the Bishops in
the Methodist Book of Discipline, that
they should heal the sick At this
time why do they accept only the
theoretical part of the religion of
Jesus and relegate the practical to the
dead ages of the past?
Not once but in all the Gospels Jesus
commanded his followers to "heal the
sick" Never did that Galilean
prophet send out students to preach
without the Command to heal the sick.
Never did he tell them to eco heal
nervous and functional disorders, but
do not heal organic diseases. Never
for moment did he limit Gods heal
ing power. He commanded them to
! heal all diseases This language is SC
plain and simple that any child can
! understand. 1t battles only the learned
! theologians. Time and time again
have they taxed their ingenuity to the
utmost to find some way in which to
tear one-half of that sacred command
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still it stands a positive and impera.
tive command for all time and to all
people for them to obey, not to ignore
and it will continue in force so long
as there is need for healing the sick.
In direct connection with this com
mand l desire to call your attention to
another declaration made by the
Founder of Christianity. When we
think of all the great works that
Jesus did, how he healed all diseases
without a single failure, how he
walked on the water and stilled the
tempest, how he disappeared in one
place to instantly appear in another
how he passed through closed doors
and raised the dead, say, when we
think of all these works we may wei
be asronished at the following words
) "Verily, verify, l say unto you, h.
that believeth in me, the works that
do shall he do Also
Now let US come down to one of thu
J last commands of Jesus, go We int
all the world and preach the gospel tt
every creature. He that believes ant
signs shall follow them that believe
they shall lay hands on the sick ant
! they shall recover" If you limit thu
healing power to that time, you mus
also limit the saving power to tina
time If the first portion of that com
, mand was intended for his time only
then the other portion was and tn
/ whole Christian religion falls to tbs
ground.
CHRISTIAN HEALING VS.. MATE
, RIA MEDICA
Some have gone so far as to say tina
our present medical system is tn
legitimate successor of Jesus healin,
method, notwithstanding that materia
means had already been in use for 200
years before Jesus appeared. How
. ever, they have never succeeded il
D explaining just how materia medic