Article July 22, 1933 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from A. B. Bedford, Correspondent, Archdeacon Haywood Harris, Stanley Bailes

[A. B. Bedford, in the Congregationalist, Boston, Massachusetts]

It was said of the first Christian leaders that they were "turning the world upside down." They turned the world upside down because they were "peculiar people." In a world of agnosticism, they believed in God. In a day of little morality, they knew that God had established and proclaimed right ways of living. In a day of darkness, they had found Jesus Christ. They had learned from him that love was the law of life, and that that love was to be expressed in service. They believed that privilege carried with it the obligation to share, so they sought to give the Christ to the world. They sought to tune their bells to God and give that music to the world.

Is it unfair to say that today we are not a peculiar people? We are very much at home in this world. I do not know how many of you pray, but I do know that if we are going to turn our world upside down, our hearts and minds have to be open to God.

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