Article April 1, 1933 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Robert E. Speer, George R. Hiatt, Granville Taylor, Henry Kendall Booth, Benjamin E. Watson

[Robert E. Speer, in the Pilgrim, Long Beach, California]

There are luxuries that may well be spared. There are even necessities that can be curtailed. But the Bible, indispensable at all times, is still more indispensable in times like these today.

The Bible is not a book of political maxims or of economic theories. . . . Its spirit is the spirit of brotherliness and good will. It is a summons to helpfulness: "Bear ye one another's burdens." It is a summons also to self-respecting independence: Let every man bear his own burden. It teaches charity, but also justice. It calls us to the giving and serving which the strong owe to the weak, and those who have to those who lack; but it also strikes straight and clear at the moral defects in individuals which are responsible for a large part of the poverty and suffering of the world, and also at the moral and economic defects in society, in business relations, and in the distribution of the common resources of the world, which are responsible for the remaining part.

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