Article December 3, 1910 Issue

There are perhaps no people on earth today who believe...

Judge L. H. Jones

Paducah (Ky.) Sun

There are perhaps no people on earth today who believe more absolutely in the divinity of Christ Jesus and that he was and is the Son of God, than do Christian Scientists. Among the "five indisputably divine testimonies to the deity of Jesus Christ," cited by our critic, on all of which the Christian Scientists entirely agree with him, but which he apparently cites in refutation of Christian Science, there is this one, viz.: "The divine words he spoke, for he spoke as never man spake."

Among the words of Jesus Christ most conspicuous in the sacred narrative, is his injunction to his disciples to heal the sick. When his emotional disciples were protesting their passionate devotion to their Master, Jesus quietly reminded them, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." Is our critic keeping his Lord's commandments to heal the sick? It is not recorded anywhere in the Bible that Jesus ever authorized anybody to preach in his name that he did not immediately impose on him this injunction, to heal the sick. In Luke's Gospel it is written: "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come." Is the critic preparing for the coming of the Christ to Paducah, in the manner that the Master commanded his disciples to prepare the way in "every city and place, whither he himself would come"? Will Christ come to Paducah unless the way is prepared just as he commanded it should be prepared? Does our critic know better than Jesus how to prepare the way for his coming?

Jesus told his disciples how to prepare the way in "every city and place, whither he himself would come," and this is what he told the seventy, viz.; "And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you; and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you!" When our critic entered Paducah did he prepare for the coming of the Lord in the way his Lord commanded him? And if he did not, what authority will he have for saying to the people when he leaves, "The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you"? Every evangelical minister recognizes that his only authority to preach in the name of Jesus is contained in the great commission which our Lord and Master gave to his disciples just before his ascension, which is recorded in the last chapter of Mark's gospel as follows:

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