Article December 2, 1916 Issue

I have read the editorial entitled "Healing by Faith" with...

W. J. Tucker—Roanoke, Va.

The World-News

I have read the editorial entitled "Healing by Faith" with much interest and appreciation. With only one of your conclusions would I take issue, that is, that death is invincible. Your breadth of view is inspiring, and I would only urge that there is ample Scriptural authority for extending your optimism to agree with Paul, who said: "For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." While this passage indicates that the demonstration over death is the last and greatest in a sequence of victories over the beliefs of the carnal mind to be accomplished, it also contains the promise of its fulfilment.

Jesus did not surrender to death for the reason other mortals do,—that is, lack of spiritual understanding,—but rather that he might prove by his resurrection that the spiritual understanding which he possessed was able to destroy death. It was a voluntary act on his part, as is borne out by his words: "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." When he finally left this earthly scene, he did not yield to death.

That death is not a divinely ordained event of any man's experience, as indicated by Jesus' words, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death," was proved by Enoch and Elijah, both of whom attained to the necessary spirituality to rise above death, even if Moses did not. That the demonstration over death requires immense spiritual growth cannot be questioned, but it is equally true that it is a growth to which we must all attain before it shall come to pass that death and hell are cast into the lake of fire.

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