Article July 10, 1937 Issue

Scientific Acknowledgment of God

W. STUART BOOTH

There have been innumerable instances of the beneficial results of acknowledging the power of God to heal men of disease, protect them from disaster, and deliver them from danger. For instance, John Wesley in his Journal writes: "My horse was very lame, and my head did ache exceedingly. Now what occurred I here avow is truth; let each man account for it as he will. Suddenly I thought, Can not God heal man or beast as He wills? Immediately my weariness and headache ceased, and my horse was no longer lame." Wesley loved the Bible, studied it earnestly, and he evidently had been impressed by the many accounts of experiences which clearly indicate God's loving care of His children.

Here the question naturally arises, Why has not the divine delivering and healing power been more continually and consistently realized and experienced by Christian men and women? Surely it cannot be that God is selective and partial in bestowing His blessings upon those who need and desire them. No, for we read that when Peter's concept of Deity was lifted above the Jewish belief in a nationalistic Jehovah, he was inspired to say, "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." According to Peter, then, anyone will find his place in God's loving plan as he reveres God and serves Him by means of spiritually right thinking and living, and by working righteousness.

Evidently, however, correct acknowledgment of God and His saving power requires much more than blind belief and a verbal acceptance of one or other of the many religious creeds. Christ Jesus is our Exemplar in this as in all ways, and his acknowledgment of God was definitely far-reaching and affirmative. It was inclusive of all good; therefore, evil of every name and nature was disavowed by him in his thought and words. Furthermore, evil's claim to reality was disproved by him in his redemptive and healing works. The Master's acceptance of the omnipotence of God, good, was scientific in that he both discerned and declared the devil or evil to be merely a falsity, a liar and the father of lies only. Then he supported and verified this declaration by nullifying evil of every sort, including sin and sorrow, discord and lack, disease and death.

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