Article March 29, 1958 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Karl Morgan Block, Howard G. Wiley

From an article in the Christian Herald New York, New York

Within the space of a few weeks following the thrilling and exalted experience of [Jesus'] baptism, when the Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove, and a voice from heaven endorsed Him as the chosen of God, He found Himself compelled by circumstances to make an extremely dangerous journey through an unfriendly country.

There is nothing in the record to indicate the reason why "He had to pass through Samaria" [Rev. Stand. Ver.]. . . . It was not that He had to go to that unlovely land, or that He was to be deserted in the midst of its animosities and antipathies. He was to go through the unhospitable country.

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