Editorial November 12, 1979 Issue

Bible characters teach healing lessons

NAOMI PRICE

Lydia was a successful businesswoman of the first century.^{See Acts 16;} She was a seller of purple cloth in the city of Philippi, where she was evidently an established member of society. Moreover, she was a follower of Christ Jesus—apparently one of the first in Europe to be converted and baptized.

Despite her busy life, Lydia was a committed worker for the cause of Christianity—in fact her home became a center where the Christians could meet, and where Paul and Silas, and no doubt other field workers, teachers, and preachers, stayed during their missionary journeys.

Not many verses of the New Testament are devoted to Lydia. But now, nearly two thousand years after she worked with the Apostle Paul at Philippi, her character comes through the pages of the Bible as so vivid and alive that her example is an inspiration to modern Christians who have demanding business ventures to conduct and still want to be active workers in the church. Lydia proved the combination to be quite possible. She left a shining example.

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