Editorial October 18, 1913 Issue

"No man can serve two"

John B. Willis

"When I am sick, I take the best remedy I know of, and then get down on my knees and pray God to bless it to my relief; and as I see it, this is the sensible thing to do." It was a good honest-minded man who thus expressed himself, and while his course would be approved no doubt by the great majority of Christian believers, honesty of conviction, in every instance, is surely destined to see things in a truer light at no distant day.

Our friend's familiar point of view seems very common-senselike on the surface, and the average man has never considered the question as to whether or not it comports with the teaching of the Bible respecting the divine nature, and human privilege; nevertheless one thing is immediately apparent, namely, that our dependence upon material remedies certainly evidences that we are not relying wholly upon the heavenly Father, as did Christ Jesus and as he counseled all his followers to do.

The contrast between the nature and power of spiritual law, and the nature and asserted power of a drug, is manifest to all, and the possibility of the miracle, that God can heal the sick without the use of either pills or poultices is rarely questioned. Though we have been taught to think that God created and uses matter as a means to an end, we have all retained the saving perception that matter is altogether unlike Spirit; that the inert stuff which God is said to have made does not express the nature of the creator, and as soon as we begin to think metaphysically about this fact the entire fallacy of our honest friend's conviction is uncovered.

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