The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-05-23

OF God 10 help suffering humanity
here and now, and then proceeds to
exemplify--to give occular demon.
| stration Of the power OF God to do
that thing. II Is said that of up.
wards OF two thousand cases Who
| have claimed to have been restored
bodily and mentally by this simple
trusful follower OF the NaZarene. all
Of which have been closely invest.
gated, only two fail to ring true.
| mention but two OF. such in.
without great public attention, in
| various sections of the country.
They are full OF meaning, full OF i'm
| port to the church. VIII ii take
heed?
And yet n YOU approach most
| church representatives and soemnly
ask the question, "fs the power ot
| God present to work so-called mira
c,es today you will receive no assur-
ances Of an affirmative character
And / will venture the assertion that
you should cite the two instances
have. ~Ist related the church repre-.
senta We, clothed with Official au-
thority to represent Him and hold
aloft the lamp of His lighting. would
| be the first to dispute genuineness
of the demonstration.
l have heard the doctrine sent
forth from the pulpit of the n lrrh
that the days OF divine miracles
| passed with the Christ himself Ard
| In the same breath the assurang.
| given that the redempt.ve power Il
the evangelical theory still remained
but could be realized only after
death
This denying one-halt the promise
| and admonitions OF the saviour and
| preaching the other half was not an
intended compromise with modern
| thought and the thing we cnll devil.
| but II was, in my judgment. Just
that and nothing else IN fact.
would like TO see the biblical
| authority for such conclusion {
would like for any modern pulpitoer
10 point me to single place In 'ha
| life OF Jesus Christ where he with.
drew his promise or relieved those
who profess discipleship from Tho
clear and unmistakable obliRaton.
| Both may be there. | make no pre-
tense of being Bible student But
II so l should like to see and read.
And What OF This?
1t should mean much 10 ths
| church that a cult has grown up ot
recent years that rests it's case al
| most altogether on not alone iti
| teachings that the power OF God ia
sufficient to heal bodily ills now, but
on It's ability to demonstrate tho
truth OF that teaching. This cult has
gained hundreds of thousands Of 90.
herants, not alone from among Tho
| ignorant and Credulous, as some Eus.
pect, not from among those sound
| in body and spirit, but from among
the educated and refined who In
| almost every instance were suffering
from bodily or spiritual distempersi
who were wretched and in thousands
| OF cases given up for incurables ny
| men OF science as well as the repre-
sentatives of the church. They
found a power that did restore
health, that did compose their men-
tai disturbances and lashed douG
and despair from the temple W
Gods designing. Grant that no
trouble was mental; what then?
II Ia not meeting the opportunity
Of the church or discharEing the OBJ
legation Of the church for the de-
nominationalist TO feel called upon
to preach n diatrlbe against this cult
ever so often. 1t Is not meeting no
issue for the representative OF ne
| church 10 sneer that these so-caled
| cures are merely the results of emo-
tionalism, that the thousands who
have regained hope and health ana
| found happiness as a result OF theN
acceptance of the new cults teach-
ings, are merely laboring under
hallucination. That attitude simply
denies. and by those ordained 10 up-
| hold, the autocracy and omipolehv'
of God.
II further impugns the intelligence
of thousands of men and women
equal in all respects of those tSho
sit in judgment on both their crSdu-
lity and their sincerity. If Dr. car,
roll wants TO know where part ~
his church membership is going l
suspect he might with profit TO h'n-
self study the rolls OF this cult re-
ferred to.
At this point I hear the averlgs
reader eXclaim; "Ah! He's a Ch'"-
tian scientist"
But let me assure you that am
product of Presbyterian lineage NAV
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