Article July 12, 1900 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from Arthur T. Pierson

The Standard of Chicago, a leading Baptist paper, publishes an article by J.W. Weddell, D.D., entitled: "Is it a Sin to be Sick?" The article is an answer to questions brought out by a previous article by the same author on the relation of prayer to healing. After touching on his own and others' experience in receiving physical healing through prayer, he says: "The church, we must admit, has let these things slip out of its mind, has, at least, been meagerly regardful and grateful for aid administered of God to his saints in sickness, and I, for one, am ready to believe that this may be one of the ways, though it be by the wilderness, that God is bringing his people back to a larger appreciation of His marvelous helping and a fuller resort to the divine sources of aid in this vale of tears."

Christ became the Word, to take the thought out of the mind and heart of God and translate that thought so that we could understand it, so that what was before invisible and inaudible and beyond the reach of our senses, comes into our minds and hearts as something that was in God's mind and heart, but now is in ours. Beautiful indeed, is this as an expression of what Christ is to us. You want to know God; well, then, study Christ and you will know all about Him. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father," said Jesus.—Arthur T. Pierson.

To live in a perfect world would be easy. The problem is how to live in this world and not be of it; how to participate in its labors and cares, and not contract its taint of moral wrong. The problem can be solved only in the light of Christianity which shows us how to live in and yet above the world; how to be citizens of heaven and yet sojourners on earth; how to retain a devout temper of mind amid the pressures of worldly duties and difficulties. The Christian restores harmony by bringing heaven down to earth.

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