Article February 6, 1926 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Charles H. Brent, President Coolidge, Charles Evans Hughes

[From the Keynote Address at the Stockholm Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work, by the Rt. Rev. Charles H. Brent, D.D., LL. D., in the Living Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin]

Little by little human life has expanded its horizon. From the local it has risen to the national, and from the national it moves out into the international. Man is getting a universal consciousness out of which will be born a universal conscience. No longer can a nation live unto itself. It must take its place in the family of nations where the welfare of all is the welfare of each. The nations must learn to live by the law of forgiveness and considerateness and love, or else they will perish. The burning problem of the moment is not merely the question of the elimination of war but of the establishment of a lasting and righteous peace. ... We have always known that all the world is kin. Now all the world is one neighborhood. Science has demonstrated that to be a fact which Christianity has ever taught. It is the superb duty and opportunity of the churches to shed their timidity, their self-importance, their localisms, and put on the seamless garment of brotherhood and unity according to the Mind of Christ.

To this end Christ commissioned his church. For the promotion of it we are gathered. So to God we pray: Lord, lift us out of private-mindedness and give us public souls to work for Thy kingdom, by daily creating that atmosphere of a happy temper and generous heart, which alone can bring the great peace.

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