Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-03-18

Spiritual Healing Reverent.
But here our good friends of other de.
nominations may exclaim. "God indeed
did these things in the good old Bible
times, but to claim such things possible
in our times is blasphemousl F" Others
may content themselves with dismiss
ing these things as mere legends or
myths.
May it not be said that if it be bias
phemoWS to expect God to do these good
and needful things now. that it was al
ways blasphemous9 Again, if these
things are mere myths or legends, is not
the whole fabric of religious teaching
mythical and legendry' Such assertions
may furnish easy ways of brushing
aside the central ana tremendous faetN
Of religious history. Before this is done.
before the ancient Bible worthless are
set down as either blasphemous or un.
truthful. would it not be well TO con-
slider that possibly these ancient seers
and prophets really had some glimuses
of knowledge of God unknown to
modern thinkers. which enabled them to
prove that God indeed "giveth to all
life, and breath and All things" and
that He is in truth the only Sa-
viOur3
Glimpses of q knowledge of God!
Wonderful as their works appear to us,
glimpses are all these men claimed to
have, for their prediction was that in
the fulness of time one would appear
who would reveal God fully; who would
be the representative of God and fulfill
all righteousness, save redeem, and de-
liver,-be Emmanuel, "God with us.
In the fulness of time he came. Did
he suit the mighty men, the scholars.
scribes, sO-called scientists and relig.
ious leaders of his time? Not at all.
They had pictured their deliverer as a
representative of god of wrath, who
would lead them to destroy the nations
which had conquered them. He came
as the representative of God who is
Love, to lead them to victory over
themselves, over the sins or mistaken
beliefs which alone were DESTROYING
them Impregnated as they were with
self-righteOus beliefs, beliefs of ambi.
ton, pride, Sarrogance, retaliation. and
the belief in the wisdom and riehtful.
ness of these, it is no wonder that thev
could not recognize the meek and lowlv
peasant-carpenter as their king or mas
ter the ideal of their seers and propf-
cts, the "Prince of Peace the
Light, " and the legitimate ruler of
the world.
Jesus Mission.
What Jesus came to do. what he
taught, did, and livua. NAV wen be
! taken as his mission. as the ideal Of the
prophets, s,-the ideal Judaism.-and as
absolute Christianity. What was this
mission?
An ancient custom. still followed
among the jews, is that of honorinp
distinguished visitors by calling upon
them to read from the Scriptures at
services in the synagogue This honor
was conferred on Jesns, when at the be.
ginuning of his ministry he visited his
home in Nazareth. In responding TO il
he turned to the book of Esias and
read: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because he hath anointed me ia
preach the gospel (good news) to the
poor; he hath sent me to heal the broll-
enhearted, to preach deliverance to the
eaptives, and recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised to preach the acceptable wear
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