EDITORIALS by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 6, 1916

EDITORIALS

By Editor

A God That Helps

THE God of the Christian is a present help in every time of need. He is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. It is the one who has never known this sweet and tender relationship, who has never experienced this practical help that comes from the Father above, that can declare, as was recently declared in an infidel paper sent us, that “there is no God that helps man.” The child of God knows that he serves a being who does help. He knows that when he prays there comes from above an answering response to his petition, which affords him a stronger evidence of the reality of God than does the sight of his eyes or the hearing of his ears.

There are two evidences of God, the external and the internal. The one who has never known God can read the evidences of his existence in his material universe and in his great works; but the one who has really come to know him, finds the internal evidences—the joy of communion with him, the messages of God to his heart, the miraculous working of divine power in his life—far more convincing than any external proof. We serve indeed a God that helps man. He will prove a present help in every time of need if we will but lay hold of his strength, and clasp his hand that is reached out to save.