Article January 7, 1956 Issue

THE NECESSITY FOR TRUE WITNESSING

WILSON M. RILEY

A Vital and important part of a trial in a court of law is the testimony of the witnesses. Presumably, those who testify are able to furnish facts, and the value of their testimony depends on their veracity and their particular knowledge of that about which they are testifying. Frequently juries are instructed to discard testimony that they consider false or misleading. The valuable witness, therefore, is the true witness.

In the forty-third chapter of Isaiah we read (verse 12): "I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I ant God." Each individual has a responsibility. In order that one may be a true witness for God, he must continually give evidence of God's omnipotence and omnipresence. His goodness and His allness.

That such responsibility can be accepted and its duties discharged was thoroughly proved by that great and effective witness for God, Jesus of Nazareth. No other individual has ever done so much either by word or act to announce and prove the actual power and presence of the eternal almighty God. Yet Jesus said (John 14:12), "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do." This statement by the Master surely indicates that he expected his followers to emulate his works and thus to be adequate witnesses that God exists.

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