, it was remiss of him not to instruct men definitely in his
methods so that the suffering from illness that has afflicted the world
could have been averted.

Jesus did not isolate the germ of leprosy, or establish any practicable
method of preventing disease. He has been of less value to the world as
a healer than Pasteur, Lister, Koch, or Walter Reed.

Some Christians will say that Jesus did not tell us how to avoid illness
because man needs to be chastened by pain. If that is correct, if pain
and disease are sent by God and are consciously permitted by Jesus, sick
people should be allowed to suffer instead of trying to heal them.

_Peace_

Jesus has been called the Prince of Peace, but the weight of his
testimony is not on the side of absolute pacifism. With his view of
rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, it is possible that
he would have advised young men to obey the state and enlist, or accept
the draft, whenever their country called.

On November 12, 1931, Rev. Dr. T. Andrew Caraker said at a banquet of
the American Legion in Baltimore that if Jesus Christ had lived in 1917
He would have been the first to volunteer in the American army, the
first to wear a gas mask, shoulder a rifle and enter the trenches.

Other ministers derive from the same gospels the belief that Jesus would
not have stabbed Germans with a bayonet. Nor would Jesus have advised
others to fight if he had been unwilling to fight himself.

Most of the sayings of Jesus regarding violence or non-resistance were
intended to apply chiefly to personal relationships; he said little of
international strife. What he did say showed placid acceptance of the
war system:

"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not
troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not
yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom."[19]

"And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled:
for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation
shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom."[20]

"But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for
these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. Then
said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom."[21]

These verses have a more direct bearing on war as we now know it than
any of his other sayings. They show his belief in