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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
THE FAMILY ALTAR
May 13.
"Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after Me, can-
not be My disciple". Luke 14:27.
If Holy Scripture contained no other passages to expose clearly
the dangerous doctrines held by the so-called Christian Scientists,
this single passage would do so. In it Christ calls every man
who would be His disciple into the fellowship of suffering. As
Christians we must not only be willing to suffer all manner of
afflictions, but we must suffer them patiently and in submission
to God's will, even as our Lord Jesus did before us. But this
the Christian Science people refuse to do. They deny the reality
of pain and disease because they deny the reality of sin. In doing
so they also brazenly deny the atoning love of our Savior which
prompted Him to die for our sins and save us from their guilt
and punishment. Again, when our Savior in the days of His
flesh healed all manner of sickness among the people (Matt. 4, 23),
He did not play the juggler, but cured real maladies, removed
real pain, and thus showed Himself a real Savior from sin and
all its consequences. Trusting in His mighty love and power,
we can look up to Him in days of sickness with the trustful
prayer: "Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick," and know
that He will not let us suffer one moment longer than is good
for our temporal and eternal welfare. But all this Christian hope
and comfort is destroyed by the teachings of Christian Scientists.
These people declare all pain and sickness to be only imaginary,
denounce what the Bible says about sin and its evil results, and
use prayer as a sort of magic to make themselves immune against
all bodily infirmities. They refuse to bear the cross of sickness,
though our Lord Jesus in His work as Savior took on Himself
our infirmities and bore our sicknesses (Matt. 8, 17), and thus
they read themselves out of the discipleship of Christ, are not
Christian, but unchristian, and we must beware of their soul-
destroying doctrine that nowadays has poisoned the minds of many.
0 Thou, from whom all goodness flows,
1 lift my heart to Thee;
In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes,
Dear Lord, remember me!
If worn with pain, disease, and grief,
This feeble frame should be,
Grant patience, rest, and kind relief;
Hear and remember me!
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