The Winslow mail., 1923-03-09
REV. ". |. Martin DISCUSSES
DEVINE HEALING IN SERMON

At the Christian Church last Sun
day evening the pastor, Rev. W. L.
Martin preached on Healing of the
Body and Soul" and stirred up some
little excitement, it seems, as he was
taken to task for some of his views
by cne of his listeners at the close of
the service. This lady came in late,
however, after having attended an
other church service, and heard only
the concluding part of the sermon
and was hardly prepared to Judge of
the sermon as a whole But evident
ly she already had preconceived no
tions as to the suject Of healing which
the sermon could in no way have
changed. The pastor took the cri-
ticismS odnaturedly and allowed
his critic to do most of the talking
since she was a lady and seemed in
clined to claim her age-long right
to have the last word
The pastor spoke, in brief, as fol-
low: He said the sermon on healing
was suggested at this time by the
widespread interest in the cures
being wrought by the famous little
Frenchman, DR.. Coue, the author of
the familiar phrase, DAY by Day, in
every way, l am getting better and
better. He said the subject seemed
to be of interest to a great many peo-
pie for the reason that the world is
full of people afflicted in one way
and another who are anxious to be
healed or cured, and that this had
been the condition from the beginning
of human history.
From time to time, he said, there
had appeared socalled healers who
Claimed to do great things in the way
OF healing of curing people of their
ills, such as Schlattery, Dowie, Broth
er Isaiah, Mrs. Mcpherson, and
others. And that, just now, interest
was centered in the Frenchman, Dr.
COue, who had recently come to this
country to lecture and hold clinics.
But, said the pastor, we shall see.
that DR.. Coue's claims and methods
are different from all these others,
and yet, that it has the fundamental
principle underlying all of them. For
said he, the same fundamental prin-
ciple does underly all of them, viz,
the principle of suggestion
The pastor took for his text pas
sage from Proverbs 23:7 which says,
"As man thinketh in his heart, so
is IlG, etuu duOIuGI IIOul OOI., IL -,
which says in speaking of the various
gifts given by the Spirit, "And to
another gifts of healings." He then
spoke of the place of healing in Gods
plan, calling attention to the appar-
ent fact that it had very little place
in the old dispensation of the Law,
and that while we find it occupying
quite a prominent place during the
days of Jesus and his apostles, that
Jesus did not come primarily to heal
and work miracles, but to save sim
ners That while He healed many
persons to relieve suffering, his mir
acies were primarily to prove his di-
vine nature, and establish his author
ity as the Son of God AS Peter said,
on the day of PentecOst, "a man ap-
proved of God by miracles and Won
ders and signs, which God did by
Him" He then called attention to
certain miracles of healing that were
unsolicited by the sufferers, such as
the woman who had the spirit of in
firmity for eighteen years, the man
with the withered hand, the palsied
man at the pool of Besthesda and the
man born blind. Following these he
called attention to other miracles OF
healing that were solicited or request
ed by the sufferers, such as the leper