Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Signs of the Times
[P. Gavan Duffy, in The Century Magazine]
Signs of the times ... all point to the advent of the day when the potentialities of the glorious past are to be seen once more working out the world's salvation. We shall hasten that day when we have courage to look facts in the face and meet the question of the need, the crying need, for spiritual honesty, as we insist that the place of corporate religion is not that of just a moral policeman, or a watchman spying from high places on the faults of men merely to condemn them; as we recognize that, small as they may seem in themselves, the things that make for even an unconscious Pharisaism (has it ever been anything else than unconscious, and consequently blind to its greatest danger?) are indeed the most pronounced symptoms of deadly and destructive spiritual disease. Rarely has the church had such a day of opportunity as this, and it will go ill with her if she misses it. To reconstruct the world and leave corporate religion as it is, is to leave the germs of disease lingering and hidden. Now, when statesmen are looking to a future that will be free from war, and when international differences will be adjusted by international courts and agreements, must organized Christianity awaken to the fact that she, in the rediscovery of her true powers and lost spiritual secrets of achieving, alone can supply the spirit that can make agreement real and international treaties more than mere scraps of paper. [Charles F. Mirick in Detroit (Mich.) News]
Why did God allow the war? Why does evil appear to be so strong and confident? Christian ministers of Detroit say that questions like this are being asked of them with more and more increasing insistence. Here and there a minister accepts the challenge and tries to answer them. Almost invariably the reply has been that the Christian church has been powerless and messageless in this greatest crisis of the world's history because modern disciples of the Christ fell into the same error as the apostles of old, spending their time debating questions of priority instead of earnestly going about the Master's business of winning the world to his gospel of love.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
January 4, 1919 issue
View Issue-
The Dawn of a New Era
NELLIE B. MACE
-
The True Commander
LOUIS A. GREGORY
-
"Comfort ye"
MARION A. BIRCH
-
"Love never faileth"
ISABEL LUSTY SIM
-
The Mirage of Evil
ANITA GRAY LITTLE
-
"Streams in the desert"
S. DANIEL LINDBERG
-
Your statement that America "is giving way before a...
Henry Van Arsdale in
-
Your contributor asserts that "materialistic findings are...
Willard J. Welch
-
With reference to an editorial review of the book, "Systems...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
-
English Speech and Ideals
William P. McKenzie
-
Coming Home
William D. McCrackan
-
"A Happy New Year!"
Annie M. Knott
-
Living here at Baltasound, Shetland Islands, I have for...
Arthur J. Brown
-
Simply to say that I am grateful for...
Marven L. Scranton
-
For some time I have wanted to send a testimony to the...
Kathryn Seay Falls
-
Although Christian Science is the greatest blessing that...
Charles T. Morrell with contributions from Rieve Stone Morrell
-
I am very grateful for all that Christian Science has done...
Dulcie Addison with contributions from Sarah Woodall
-
My testimony is offered for publication in the hope that...
Bessie Puckett with contributions from Leah Cohen
-
A Joyful Outlook
ADELL LONERGAN
-
Signs of the Times
with contributions from P. Gavan Duffy, Charles F. Mirick