Article May 26, 1934 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from James Reid, Winfred Rhoades, Paul J. Slavik

[From the Frederick Leader, Oklahoma]

Memorial Day, in its annual recurrence in this country, causes its people to approach with reverence the shrines of those whose lives paid the supreme price of their devotion to their country's ideals, but the thing those who made this sacrifice perpetuated to their country was impersonal in its nature—for it is the great spirit of liberty, justice, and equality.

So long as Israel kept the covenant, in letter and in spirit, it prospered and was at peace. Its troubles came about when it forgot God, and ran after other gods, allowing the purity of its thought and life to be corrupted. So this country has wandered into wrong paths, away from the ideals which marked its foundation and for which its brave men have died, and has paid the penalty in suffering and sorrow. It has been suffering the frutis of its own follies, because it has allowed greed to usurp the place of justice, the love of gold to outstretch the love of man in God's image, and has suffered equality to be strangled by privilege. We need memorials to call us back to the contemplation that no nation can forget God and His laws and prosper. And we need to remember that the sum of these laws is comprised in undivided love and service to God and in loving our neighbors as ourselves. . . .

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