Article April 29, 1933 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Howard Chandler Robbins, James Reid, Edward N. Spirer

[Rev. Howard Chandler Robbins, as quoted in the Boston Evening Transcript, Massachusetts]

The first followers [of Jesus] were not exceptionally spiritually-minded. They were only a fair cross-section of the good people of Palestine. They were more or less selfish, more or less hard-hearted, more rather than less obtuse. Often Jesus had to reproach them for their ordinary faults and failures. But they possessed also ordinary virtues. We are like them. The simplest and deepest virtue is knowing and loving. This they gave....

Jesus recognized and brought out in the disciples deep resources they did not know they had....

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