Article February 3, 1923 Issue

Signs of the Times

[From the Chicago Evening Post, Chicago, Ill.]

Jesus talked of a God who was much less concerned about religious observances and ecclesiastical polity and theological formulæ, than He was about developing in men and women those spiritual possibilities which would secure for them the full measure of their rich inheritance as His children. This is what the service of God in a human world meant for Jesus, and he had no use for anything which stood in its way. Jesus believed in the ultimate triumph of the good news about God, through the power of spiritual forces—the latent spiritual forces in... men, emancipated by truth, and transforming the life of the individual and of society. He would appeal to no other power. His conviction was that God could be linked to men through faith and love, and so the great work of human redemption could be accomplished. Jesus and his message survived the cross. They are to-day the great disturbers of self-centered lives; of whatever there is in church or state, in the social or economic order, which hinders the realization of God's thought for man. And the gospel of God makes progress in the measure in which those who profess belief in it accept the program and the method of Jesus, even when they lead again to the cross

Signs of the Times

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