Article March 14, 1903 Issue

The Other Side

CHARLES D. REYNOLDS

Manchester (N. H.) Union

Mr. Editor.

The incident related by Mr. Chalmers of a physician who told the patient that he must die, and received in reply the statement that he was well and strong and would be out in a few days, is certainly to the point. On which side is our friend's sympathy? that of the doctor who, according to material law, condemned the patient to death? or that of the patient, who resisted this decree and affirmed his immortality and divine sonship?

Which was contending for the law of Christ? the doctor or the patient? The patient trusted in the law of life in Christ Jesus to free him from the law of sin and death (materialism), whereas the doctor was unconsciously trying to fasten disaster and death upon his patient. Jesus brought a more hopeful gospel than that, and proved that victory over sickness, sin, and death, is possible to man. To Lazarus he said, "Come forth." To the material senses this was absurd, it was "ignoring the physical strength of the patient."

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