GIVE YOUR HEART ROOM by Dr. L. A. Banks

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 26, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 33.

GIVE YOUR HEART ROOM.

By Dr. L. A. Banks

THE newspapers have been telling us that a son of Senator Foraker, of Ohio, who had been given up to die because his heart did not have room to work, has been cured in a few weeks by an old physician in Missouri, who punched and prodded the lad until he gave the heart more room. The little fellow’s chest by this constant exercise was reconstructed on new architectural lines, and his cure is now considered permanent. There are a good many Christians who are suffering from that sort of trouble who might be cured in the same way. A great many people are so shut in by their selfishness that the heart does not have a fair chance to perform its functions. God often seeks by prodding us and punching us and putting us under the hard pressure of discipline to so enlarge us that the heart may beat in a manner worthy of the sons of God. Let us welcome his loving correction.—Dr. L. A. Banks.