Article July 25, 1925 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Judson C. Hendrickson

[Rev. Judson C. Hendrickson, in the Advocate, Stamford, Connecticut, March 30, 1925]

But what vision is it of which our text speaks? It is not the vision of material things or of material achievements, but the vision of God, the vision of things spiritual and divine, the vision of eternal realities. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." The greatest vision a soul can have is the vision of God, nor is there any vision that is possessed of greater transforming power.... Now the Bible itself is a book of vision, possessed of spiritual discernment. It is a book with a spiritual outlook and uplook, and the great men of the Bible are all men of vision. In the life of Moses, and Isaiah, and Elijah, and Ezekiel, what a place vision had in their lives; and in the spiritual experiences of the disciples of our Lord, especially in the life of John, the beloved disciple, and of Paul, the great apostle of God!

In God's plan the vision and the task go together, and it is this that keeps the man of vision from becoming a visionary. The visions of life are to prepare us for the burdens of life; we are not to remain upon the mount of transfiguration but to go down into the valley where people live. We are inspired that we in turn may inspire others. This is the task of the church and of the Christian, to bring a larger measure of the spiritual and of the divine into people's lives, to change the humdrum of our everyday life into something that shall be beautiful and glorious because of the presence and majesty of God.

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