Article July 13, 1940 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Overcoming Opposition to Good

with contributions from James Reid, H. R. Hunt, N. H. Pike, Ernest H. Cherrington, Clifford Keizer

[Rev. James Reid, D. D., in the British Weekly, London, England)

It must have been a . . . disappointment to Jesus to see how unresponsive many were to his message. It brought to his mind the picture of a seed falling on a hard road. He was thinking of field paths, where the soils had been trodden by countless feet till the surface was like stone. The seed which fell there could not penetrate the soil. It would lie for a little, till the wind swept it away or the birds got hold of it. There are people whose minds are like that. They are closed to any fresh truth, any new idea. They are like the surface of a beaten path. That is the reason, in their case, why the message of Christ in its fullness makes no appeal. . . .

How can this closed mind be opened? How can the beaten surface be broken up to let in the seed of truth? Sometimes life itself does this for us. An event or experience breaks through the crust. A sorrow comes crashing into the routine of life. We are faced with a new situation for which the truth we know will not suffice for help or comfort. Then we look around for help, and the message that once meant so little becomes the most vital word of guiding.

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