Editorial September 17, 1910 Issue

"POWER TO HEAL SICKNESSES."

Archibald McLellan

That man is subject to sickness, and that sickness can be cured and life prolonged only by material means, is the claim upon which all attempts to secure so-called medical legislation, or legislation for "the conservation of human life," are based; and the question before the public at the present time is whether this assumption is true.

How any one who believes in the Bible as the inspired word of God, be he Christian or Jew, can bring himself to accept the claim that material means are necessary for the restoration of health, is somewhat hard to understand, for both the Old and the New Testaments so abound in accounts of the healing works wrought by the prophets, as well as the Messiah and his apostles, that the rejection of spiritual healing is tantamount to a rejection of both Judaism and Christianity. The fact that spiritual healing has been done at any time, no matter how remote, is proof enough that the sick can be healed today by spiritual means, for what has been done once can be done again, inasmuch as that which was accomplished by the prophets, who according to the Scriptures were recognized and acknowledged as men of God by reason of their healing work, must have been done according to spiritual law, that law which is unfailing and ever operative,—now as in ages past.

Jesus certainly accomplished his healing work in the name of God,—"the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works,"—and according to "the will of the Father." Unless, therefore, we are to believe that "the will of the Father" is changeable or erratic, we must believe that the healing of disease through the same spiritual means which the Master employed—the knowledge of the Father—is not only possible to us today, but the legitimate and the only legitimate means of perfect healing.

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