Article February 17, 1934 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from James Reid, Harry Beal, C. A. Alington, Edgar Tilton

[Rev. James Reid, in the British Weekly, London, England]

Above everything else almost in these days we need solitude—time to be "alone with the Alone." We need to enter into our chamber and shut the door...

It is not always easy to shut the door. The silence can be invaded by cares that absorb. The heart which was meant to be a temple may become a thoroughfare for the traffic of business. That is the real meaning of the word "profane." It may take time and patience to shut the world out, to become silent enough to hear God speak .... We must be patient. But the mood in which God can speak to us does not come by trying to empty the mind of everything from without. It comes by thinking about God, His care, His grace, His willingness to guide and help. As we think on Him, bit by bit the outside world relaxes its grip. And into our hearts, like a gentle tide, God's peace comes flooding.

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