The
brief and unequivocal command of the Founder of Christianity to his followers, "Heal the sick," will be fully satisfied only when obedience thereto has annihilated, with the Christ-idea of Life, all sickness from the world.
What
utterly unique word pictures, couched in the delightsome imagery of the East, were drawn by the Hebrew writers and prophets! The Bible truly is a gallery whose walls are adorned with literary gems and poetic masterpieces.
There
is no better example of the vanity and disaster which attend vainglory than the Bible story of Nebuchadnezzar as related in the fourth chapter of Daniel.
Before
the glad celebration of Easter by the Christian churches, many denominations include in their rituals observances of periods of fasting, especially during that which is called "Holy Week.