Article June 30, 1923 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from W. T. G. Brown

[Rev. W. T. G. Brown, in the Journal, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 3, 1923]

Gloomy as conditions undoubtedly are in many parts of the world to-day, there is decided room for encouragement in our country as we have it to-day. ... The passing of country-wide prohibition legislation in the United States a few years ago, and the passing of similar legislation in Ontario in 1916, all served as an opening in a wall of darkness for the establishment of a new and brighter era. ... One could go on indefinitely and name other reforms of recent years, which indicate indisputably that the world is on the road in the right direction. It indicated, Mr. Brown continued, that more and more the world was coming closer and closer to the state implied in the prayer of the people of the time of Jesus, when they said in part, "Thy kingdom come." But there was a long way to be covered yet before it could come in its entirety. God's kingdom was not a kingdom in the sense that the people of old thought of, or desired. It was not heralded by a vast display of earthly pomp and pageantry. It was a creation of the spirit; not a phantom, but a reality, as genuine and as functionable as any of earthly design, and far greater in scope. Its coming did not mean the banishment of earthly kingdoms. It did not aim to displace any of the vast empires or republics. It had its being in another realm, where these had no existence.

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