Editorial April 8, 1939 Issue

"The stability of thy times"

Evelyn F. Heywood

The prophet Isaiah, moved to indignation as he was at the shortcomings and disobedience of the people, did not lose his confidence in the coming of Christ's kingdom. He saw that the certain outcome for those who walked uprightly, would be found in judgment and in righteousness. In this blessed and final consummation of his hopes, Isaiah saw something more than a great personal Saviour, establishing himself in power to the discomfiture of his enemies. He saw the advent of a wholly different state of consciousness, which should express itself in universal harmony and good will. "But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams."

This coming of the Christ was, according to Isaiah, to be a place where bondage and strife would find no entrance; it would be a place where men dwell at peace. This was the kingdom of heaven, of which the Messiah was to tell his followers many centuries later, a kingdom which would express itself in love for God and man. There were other qualities of thought which Isaiah foresaw must characterize this kingdom: "And wisdom and knowledge," he declared, "shall be the stability of thy times."

As then, so in all ages, humanity has found that not in material so-called wisdom and knowledge, not in mortal measurements of time, will the kingdom of heaven be established. Those who would behold "the glorious Lord" must first learn that the only stability which belongs to and is permanent in man, is that which God bestows.

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