The Christian doctrine of health : a handbook on the relation of bodily to spiritual and moral health / by the author of "Pro Christo et ecclesia."

  • Dougall, L. (Lily), 1858-1923.
Date:
1916
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Credit: The Christian doctrine of health : a handbook on the relation of bodily to spiritual and moral health / by the author of "Pro Christo et ecclesia.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LOVE THE HEALER A. Our Lord frequently refers to the conditions under which men can pray effectually. They are as follows : 1. The conscious aim of him who prays is to be ‘ the Kingdom ’—i.e. corporate well-being and well¬ doing in the power of God. “ Our Father, let all men worship Thee in Thy true character ; bring about Thy beneficent purpose for mankind on earth ”—this, the opening of the ideal prayer, is the epitome of all His teaching concerning goodwill to God and man as the attitude of prayer. 2. There must be conscious goodwill to men, i.e. no sense of separation from any fellow-man. If such exist, it must be cancelled by forgiveness. Forgiveness of wrong is the crown and test of goodwill. When men love they forgive ; when they do not forgive, their relation to the wrong-doer is less than love. “ When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any ” (Mark xi. 25). Such forgiveness is only possible when we bear in mind that no concrete man is merely and only a wrong-doer, a sinner or wrong-doer being an abstraction, and by dwelling upon the efforts, virtues,