Article October 16, 1926 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Henry Hallam Saunderson, Arnold Sherring, H. C. Culbertson, A. M. Bradley, S. C. L. Miller

[From "The Power of an Endless Life," by Dr. Henry Hallam Saunderson, as quoted in the Boston Herald, Massachusetts]

Spiritual experience gives a great chorus of testimony to the reality of a Being who is near, sympathetic, powerful and wise; a Being who responds to our call, who helps in our weakness, and who guides in time of need. And whoever, with open mind and with understanding heart, has seen a human life visibly sustained by a power more than human, a power unseen but ever real, knows that our life is more than what the eyes see, and the world is more than what the hands handle. The greatest need of the world to-day, of our modern life, is the sense of a vital relationship with the things that are eternal, the consciousness of living the life which is immortal. Can the radiance of the first Christian years be restored? Yes, for the light which has sometimes burned low has never been quenched. We still live in the kind of world which Jesus interpreted to men. The physical world but thinly veils the glory of God; and that glory sometimes breaks through. In the flowers of the field, in the faces of children, in the order and beauty of the world, He is visible for those who have "eyes to see."

Still do prayer and meditation yield the results which Christ [Jesus] found when he rose a great while before day and departed into the mountain to pray. In such experience Christ [Jesus] does not become a fading memory from the ancient world, nor a mere tradition from an ever receding past. The gap between his life and ours does not widen with the years. Spiritual experience bridges the gap of time and space; for that experience is timeless. Life is lifted out of its narrowing horizons and gains eternal meaning.

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