Article August 6, 1932 Issue

Signs of the Times

[From Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, London, England]

It always has been said that politics and religion are the two most dangerous topics of conversation and comment. Yet in a great national crisis we all become politically minded, centering our interest upon leadership. Time was, not so long ago, when in great crises our first thought was of religion and its leader—God. On Armistice Day the whole nation pauses in silence for two minutes reverently to do honor to those who gave their lives that we might live. ...

We built our national character upon a foundation of true religion, and in our hearts we still believe, but fail to recognize and express, this same sense of reverence and obligation. Gone are the days of the perfunctory family prayers and the hastily mumbled grace before meat. ... But there is no reason why we should not, each of us, each day pause and for two minutes reflect and in our hearts realize the force of the text, "Be still, and know that I am God." It is not a question of particular form or creed, it is not even a question of a more or less ostentatious piety. It is merely a recognition of our old-time faith in God—a dependence upon that same Great Power which has succored us in times past.

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