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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    and confined in other aspects of life, our limitations may not be of God’s fixing. In any case the pre¬ sumption is strengthened that God is always offering us power to overcome and transcend all imperfections -moral and physical. C. We have now enumerated what things in sickness may be certainly known to be God’s will, because we believe these same things to be God’s will for us in every situation in life; and further, we have suggested what things may be presumed to be His will. There is, however, a vocation to which it would seem that God must call all Christian people when they are for any time sick. Their own suffering, and the sympathy it ought to arouse in them for others who suffer from weakness and monotony and pain, should cause them to turn with a special joy and hope to the contemplation of God’s power to heal the body, as evinced in the Gospel and in many other religious records, and they should be especially forward in discovering what riches of Divine power He opens to human faith in this aspect of life. They should feel that to them is given all the light of the age in which they live, in the accumulation of human knowledge on this subject. To them is also given time to meditate upon the power and love of God and to pray for grace and wisdom to bring to¬ gether and co-ordinate all that is true, both in what we call scientific medical knowledge and in what we call Divine revelation. They should also apply this harmony as they realise it to the matter of bringing the body into subjection to God’s will as manifested in the human will to health co-operating with the bodily tendency and power to recover health.