Article May 23, 1903 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from HOPE WEST, MYRON W. HAYNES, DOLAN, GEORGE C. LORIMER, WAYLAND HOYT, C. H. SPURGEON, DAVID GREGG, J. R. MILLER

Only the pure in heart are qualified to say what Jesus meant. ... He said "Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God." If purity of heart was unattainable by natural means that was cruel speaking then. Is it unattainable?

Here the matter of belief must be weighed, for it is certain, if a man does not believe in the possibility of cleansing his own heart by resolutely putting out of it whatsoever he knows to be evil and foul, and resolutely taking into it instead all that he knows to be clean and good,—if he does not believe such action to be possible, he will never be pure in heart by natural means. And blessing comes of wrestling.

Believing in God, desiring above all things to see Him, believing also in Jesus of Nazareth, that there was no deceit in his nature, none of the cruelty that can tease, that he pointed only where one might go, it cannot be counted foolish to believe the condition he named attainable.

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