Article July 30, 1927 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from George H. Morrison, J. C. Harrison, Ruth K. Hill, Burton Davies

[From the Advertiser, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia]

The sixty-sixth anniversary of the Presbyterian church was celebrated recently. ... Preaching at the evening service, the Reverend Harvey took as his text ...: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." He said that what the Master would have us learn was this: That his religion consists not of creeds and dogmas; it was not a thing of formulas and theological presuppositions. True religion should be an earnest endeavor to understand and to imitate the great love of God as it is revealed in the beauty of nature and in the beauty of the life of Jesus Christ. Purity of life, the beauty of helpfulness, and the sweet perfume of a loving influence were the lessons to be learned from the lily of the field. Everyone might by words of love and acts of kindness mellow their surroundings and brighten the pathways of life. People should take courage and go forward, and day by day ask for grace to plant the seeds of patience, of purity, of love. Then, when the past, present, and future become one point in eternity, God will stretch forth His hand of love to pluck the flowers of our ... service which had bloomed and blossomed in the field of this earth life.

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