Article September 24, 1938 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Leisure and Quiet

with contributions from Arthur W. McDavitt, Carl F. Zietlow, L. B. Ashby, Orien W. Fifer

[Rev. L. B. Ashby, in the Morning Post, London, England]

One of the most noticeable things in the human life of our Lord was his fixed habit of withdrawing from the haunts of men to be still amidst the silence of the hills or in some other solitary spot. He seems to have found such times of stillness indispensable to the life of the soul. How much more needful for us, then, if we would know God!

Sunday, which once upon a time provided us with such an interlude for being still, does so no longer. It is turned now to quite other uses, and can no longer be described accurately as "the day of rest." Whether we are displaying wisdom in discarding this weekly opportunity of being still and in throwing aside that ... worship which brings us into touch with God is a question which seems to need our very careful consideration. The same is true of the habit of our daily prayers, which bring us ... stillness before God and the chance of hearing the "still small voice."

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