Article August 18, 1951 ISSUE

"IN HIM WE LIVE"

FRANK LEGGITT

About two thousand years ago a message was delivered to Jesus, a message of such a nature as to bring fear and sorrow to mortals, for it said, as recorded in the eleventh chapter of John's Gospel, that his good friend Lazarus, whom he loved, was sick. But Jesus said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby."

Lazarus succumbed to his sickness, and when Jesus arrived, he found that his friend had been dead for four days. The material evidence convinced everyone except Jesus that Lazarus was dead; that life had been lost; that death was real. Jesus refused to accept the belief that man could be less than perfect and immortal. He knew that good never ceases; that perfection is the fact of being; that life is eternal. To reassure Martha that his understanding of these truths was sufficient to meet the present need, he said to her, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."

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