Rev. Alan Walker in the Sydney Sun-Herald New South Wales, Australia

There is nothing more impressive in the life of Jesus than his world mission. He lived and died in tiny, obscure Palestine, yet his whole thinking was set in a world framework.

He began his ministry with a declaration that he was to remove the sins of the world. His last challenge was, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel." From the beginning, Christianity has been a world religion.

The great command of Jesus means more than a geographic challenge. It is a summons to take Christian principles into every department of life, to go into the political world, the economic world, the racial world, the international world. . . . The truth of Christ is true everywhere.

From an item by Mack E. Mason in the Montrose Daily Press, Colorado

God has provided all things for us. It is not the plan of God for us to live a poor, miserable, defeated life. Such a life dishonors Him. He wants us to have peace and power. How are these things obtained? In the simplest definition—through faith in God.

Faith is looking to God for help, the hand that reaches out to take God's gifts and provisions, resting on the Lord for the fulfillment of all His promises. The tragedy is that we look to self and to the world instead of to God. . . . Faith moves mountains of the mind, the heart, the spirit, but they are moved only by those who are living their faith. . . . Our God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He hears and answers prayer as He has always done.

Rev. Roger J. Turrell in a sermon as reported in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio

In virtually all of his personal interviews, even with sinful persons, Jesus had a deft way of giving them hope and a sense of forgiveness and personal worth. In Galatians 5, Paul enumerates the sins of the flesh, but he goes on to balance this with a beautiful and positive statement, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law" (Rev. Stand. Ver.).

If moral failures must be mentioned, the healing compassion and forgiveness of God need to be stressed at once. Help the seeker for God to understand that he is not punished for his sins but by them; he is not rewarded for his good deeds but by them. God, who is a true Father, is not against him because of his sins, but for him against his sins. We do not wait for judgment at some far-away and remote time. Judgment is going on all the time. . . .

Mental health begins with self-respect and a sense of personal dignity and worth. Jesus understood this when he gave us the second great commandment. He did not say, "Love your neighbor . . . (period)." He said "Love your neighbor as yourself." A person with reasonable self-regard has a good emotion to share. He is then capable of giving love and of receiving love.

Again a consistently healthy and Christian view is to endeavor to love the good life, to desire earnestly the spiritual gifts, to value purity of heart and personal virtue above all material possessions and luxuries. . . . The discerning Christian will discriminate and remind himself over and over to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

From an article in the Youngstown Vindicator, Ohio reprinted from The London Times England

Our Lord was concerned with patients, not diseases. When he said, "Thy sins be forgiven thee," he was dealing with the patient's real need. What he needed was to become a different man, through such inward change as would restore him into right relationship with God.

From an article in the Riverside News, California

Christianity is inherently opposed to every form of narrowness and bigotry. . . .

The real Christian lives by love and kindliness and good will, by a recognition that God is no respecter of persons. Let us oppose evil as evil, wherever and in whomever it is found.

Let us recognize men for the goodness that is in them, no matter what their race or color, and no matter how much their outward creed may differ from our own. This is the spirit of Christianity.

From an article in the Picton Gazette Ontario, Canada

The one hundred and third Psalm is one of those most frequently [quoted], a marvelous psalm of thanksgiving! Notice the broad sweep of the first verse, "All that is within me, bless his holy name." That little word "all" means all. It is a short word, but it is a big word, for it takes in the whole of life. Do we usually praise God with all that is within us, or with just a part? We can give God praise with just a part of us. Some people praise God with their Sundays, but not with the other six days. We may praise God just with words. But no matter how exalted the words, they are empty if we deny God the allegiance of our lives.