Article July 27, 1968 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from D. S. Page, J. Harry Wood

The Reverend D. S. Page, Minister Burgess Hill Baptist Church in the Mid-Sussex Times Hay wards Heath, Sussex, England

To answer the question "Why are we ill?" I first ask "What is illness?" It is simply the state of not being healthy, or not being whole, for health and wholeness are words of a common origin. Lack of wholeness in the individual and between individuals leads to dis-ease, and disharmony.... We are ill simply because something in life is not functioning as it should be....

Christians believe that it is not God's purpose that there should be illness—pain, tears and suffering have no place in His Kingdom —and that much illness could be lessened or removed if man were to live his life in a right relationship with God....

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