Article August 12, 1939 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Friendship

with contributions from J. W. Studebaker, F. J. McConnell, J. Lambert Baggott, William T. Manning, F. W. Kirn, Frank M. Selover

[From the Home News, Baltimore, Maryland]

Any nation or civilization which is to endure must build upon the foundation of moral and spiritual forces. Brute force, the law of the jungle, attempted progress in material things only, cannot endure any length of time. However large a nation's army, however invincible its navy or aircraft, however inexhaustible seem to be its financial resources, the moral and spiritual values are the surest guarantors of permanence and enduring stability. ...

It is true also in individual relations that men cannot strive for mastery in the field of competitive rivalry, cannot go after the true prizes of life, if they leave out the moral and spiritual. ... He is a prince among men who regards "a public office as a public trust." He can have the world if he keeps his faith in self and fellow men; if courage, love, and good will are else than empty words in his life; ... if he sympathizes with another in that one's loneliness and aspirations, giving a helping hand to the worthy. That one has found the meaning of life, for his values can never be taken from him. He loves, he hopes, he prays—and never in vain.

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