The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-08-05

lou nave no business running off to meetings in other
cnurches When man has been pulled out of mud hole,
what a fool he is to crawl back!
FOOLISH ARGUMENT USED BY OPPONENTS OF
DIVINE HEALING
How learned some people in their estimation
They ask, Oh wisely, eff God did not intend us to
use the heros that He created why did He them to
grow?"
Why! He created them to be food for the COWS!
Upon the specous plea that God the herbs for
medicine, people every dirty thing in the vegetable
animal and mineral kingdom
Do you remember that not more than about eighteen
months ago. men extracting venom of snakes and
giving it to cure certain diseases?
1t all belongs to the works of the flesh!
Now, what is Gods provision for need?
Inc word OF God makes it plain that His provision is
the Blood of His Only Begotten Son.
DO you not see, then, that every who refuses
Divine Healing rampes the Blood of the Christ under his
feet do not care what He says he practically despses
the Atonement which the Son of God has made
And yet many longng for their dear old Metho
dist, or Baptist, or Presbyterian Church.
Do you know that there hundreds of ministers in
these churches today up at what they
call the "Bloody Atonement?"
| want association with such people,! They
denying the very Christ bought them with His Own
Blood
They have thrown the miracles out of the Bible and
they make light of the story of Daniel in the lions den and
Of Jonah and the whale.
ZION TO STAND BY THE WORD OF GoD
When you begin to clip the Word of God, you might
just well lock up your doors and quit.
ZION must stand by the Word of God and make
promises
Of course critics will try to make capital out of the
deaths that ZION now and then. answered
these critics by cutting out the obituary notices from the
Melbourne cage" for several months sticking them to-
Upthn and O1linU tho Of
Tabernacle.
To it is terrible for any to die without the
doctors having chance to kill them!
Are any of you getting tender this subject and be-
bnning to say that is terrible not to call in doctor?
When you admit DOCTOR you do that which is equivalent
to admitting the Devil
The Australians here know that [ never compromised
in Australia but when first began my ministry there,
tried to They said that died without
doctor would have take three years the pentenry
said, however, that would not compromise; that
would go prison be burned at the stake rather than
compromise; and you know the results
THE NEED OF CAREFULNEss EVEN WHILE TRUSTING GOD
Many of the diseases with which you afflicted are
the result of careessness Ignorance and many of
ZION people are guilty of the sin of presumption.
try to be careful and when step off car stand
perfectly still until pulls away; then look all around
and if everything clear walk Some people, how
We had one killed in Sydney simply through his
carelessness, and another seriously injured
Now about the question of eating and drinking do
not believe in saying very much about eating and drnkng
the less said the better.
I say, "Eat and drink We that which is good in
moderation"
would not have book diet in my house; have no
use for it. Among the biggest fools Gods earth
food faddists.
There is the no-breafast fad eat no breakfast but
do not need to write book of four hundred it,
Tt is great saving of time to not to eat breakfast but
there is no virtue not eating breakfast 1t will not take
me to Heaven and if you breakfast it will not keep
out of Heaven.
Some one says, eff had my way in ZIoN there would
not be another drop of tea drunk Now would not be
cruel as that to some of you old although do not
drink it. | do not want my stomach tanned like an old
boot sole.
drink neither tea Coffee cocoa; but you can
he good Christian and drink all three if you choose
never will give my consent to nonsense in zIoN
THE Food AND BATHING FADs TO BE CAREFULLY AVOIDED
Sometimes when man begins to study a book on food
and reads that it not right to make cemetery OF his
stomach for dead and sheep he gets greatly troubled
on the meat question: and begins make trouble for others
The same is true with the bathing question; Will give
that black eye in CITY, My practise is to take one