The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-15
A REVIVAL or CHRISTIAN HEALING.

The first great need of the church today
ia the revival OF her ministry Of healing
according 20 tho finding OF tho Joint COM
mission on ministry OF healing OF the Prot'H-
tant Episcopal church In the United states
reported today to the house OF bishops ana
in tho house OF deputies In trlonnial con-
vention here. ,
mort "and act moro confidently and con-
stantly on her faith IN tho power OF prayer
especially in the power Of her cogpornhte
interCessop-t to heal the sick, Whatever tho
means or process by which the blessing
comes"--Extract from Associated Press
Dlapatch reporting the Episcopal conVen-
tion at Portland.
Thus after nearly two thousand years the
principle teachings OF Jesus Christ the highest
polnts OF his ministry while on earth, are off
cialIy recognized by one Of the earliest organ
iyntIons TO set Itself the task OF carrying forth
his words and worke.
The secular student OF history. philosophy and
world Affairs in general has always been per-
picked at the disposition of religious organlza-
tons 70 predicate their creed and their mission
upon a single phase OF the Nazarenes ministry
or philosophy While each such organization
has clear warrant in Holy Writ for the forms
practiced not one has uniformly practced all
OF the forms prescribed by the Great Preceptor.
And of all the teachings and doings OF the
Christus none was more important than his
healing of the sick. and concerning none OF
them did he lay n moro imperative command
upon his followers than concerning physical
healing.
He not only positively commanded them TO
40 forth and heal the sick and perform the other
so-caed miracles he had performed but he
explicitly told them that 1t was through their
ability to do such things that they should be
sure OF their ewn fitness to serve him.
II was not a evangelical church that at last,
after thousands OF years, revived Christian heal
ing, but an cvangel OF q new sect and. strange
enough, no greater critic or bigoted opposition
was encountered anywhere than in the pulpit
OF the various evangelical churches OF the
world. Ministers almost without exception, both
Protestant and Catholic felt called on TO in
Weigh against tho healing art as practiced by
.hIs sect Yet q moments Christian contempla-
ton and reflection should have convinced them
how utterly absurd their opposition
For they preached the efficacy of prayer;
they preached the omnipotence OF God; they
preached the power of God to do anything, and
expressed a confident belief in every word set
forth in the Bible. And all tho while In that
very Bible was both the command for them 10
engage in Christian healing of the physical body
and the positive promise that II they we're sin-
cere in their professions OF faith and love that
they should exercise tho power to successfully
practice the healing art.
II is TO this sect referred 10, which In the face
OF Misrepresentation and scorn has grown dur
ing the last two decades ~ no other Christian
organization has grown, that credit must he
given for the action OF the Episcopal commits
son and the contemplated action OF other gov
ernlng bodies of other Protestant churches,