Article March 2, 1940 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Roosevelt, James Reid, H. S. Byrd, Edgar DeWitt Jones, W. A. Hobson, Leon Merle Flanders, Walter Carey

Topic: Building Civilization [President Roosevelt, as quoted in The Boston (Massachusetts) Daily Globe]

The world has created for itself a civilization capable of giving to mankind security and peace firmly set in the foundations of religious teachings. Yet, though it has conquered the earth, the sea, and even the air, civilization today passes through war and travail.

I take heart in remembering that in a similar time Isaiah first prophesied the birth of Christ. Then, several centuries before his coming, the condition of the world was not unlike that which we see today. Then, as now, a conflagration had been set; and nations walked dangerously in the light of the fires they had themselves kindled. But in that very moment, a spiritual rebirth was foreseen—a new day which was to loose the captives and to consume the conquerors in the fire of their own kindling; and those who had taken the sword were to perish by the sword. There was promised a new age wherein through renewed faith the upward progress of the human race would become more secure.

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