Article October 27, 1923 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Heber Dwight Ketcham

["Thy Kingdom Come," from the Herald, Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 3, 1923]

The sermon at the opening of the League of Nations in Geneva was delivered by the Right Rev. Professor George Milligan, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, who chose as his text the words, "Thy Kingdom Come" (Matthew 6:10). Dr. Milligan said, in part:—

"The thought of the kingdom does not stop with God's sovereignty. The prayer from which our text is taken is addressed to 'Our Father which art in heaven,' and so reminds us of the new, the higher knowledge of God which Christ brought with him. It is not that the older view is lost sight of, but it is deepened, broadened by the final revelation in a son. 'He that hath seen me,' says our Lord himself, 'hath seen the Father.' And if we would understand aright God's relation to the human race, it can only be as we regard it through the eyes of Jesus Christ. No man, to invert Mr. Maurice's fine saying, can pray sincerely, 'Our Father which art in heaven,' without adding a prayer for 'our brothers who are on earth.' Or, in the words of the late President Harding, ... 'The world needs more of the Christ, the world needs the spirit of the Man of Nazareth. If we could bring into the relationships of humanity, among ourselves and among the nations of the earth, the brotherhood that was taught by the Christ, we would have a new hope for humanity throughout the globe.' It is on this sense of a universal Christian fellowship inspired by the Redeemer's kingly law of love, that the League again must depend for its promotion of good-will among the nations. 'Patriotism,' as we have learned in the words that have become historic, 'is not enough.' Even the sense of human brotherhood will prove insufficient, unless the natural relationship is raised to something higher, more fundamental still—the oneness of humanity in Christ.

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