Article January 7, 1939 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Spiritual Awakening of the World

George Lansbury with contributions from Francis B. Sayre, A. H. Ryan, A. J. Muste, W. W. Wilkinson

[Francis B. Sayre, Assistant Secretary of State, in the Christian Advocate, Cincinnati, Ohio]

We believe that the sovereign God of love is at work in the world today, guiding and inspiring individual lives. Men are reborn and sent forth to serve the needs of others. Individual lives are raised above frustration, defeat, and death to purposiveness, victory, and abundant life that is eternal.

No less is God shaping history, overruling human activities and institutions which would fall short of man's best. Educational systems which fail to ... teach integrity of character are faltering under His demand that they make for nobler living. Churches lost in material concerns are disintegrating under His insistence that they should more powerfully bring people to His way of life. Economic systems built upon our selfish disregard of the needs and happiness of other personalities cannot ultimately endure, and will in time dissolve under the pressure of His persistent will. Social orders based upon exploitation of others, upon class warfare, upon intolerance, unless corrected, will surely go to pieces. International relations resting upon nothing but material force will crack and fall in ruin under the relentless operation of His moral law. God cannot be frustrated.

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