Article January 18, 1941 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: The Way of Life

with contributions from J. H. Gockel, J. L. Newland, Robert Power, William T. Manning, M. Rudolph Miller, Charles T. Holman, John Hully

[The Gleaner, in the Dorset Daily Echo, Weymouth, England]

In times of tumult and stress we need opportunities for quiet thought. Probably many of us read enough, but what do we read and what do we profit? How many of us would like to confess how very short a time we devote to the study of the Bible? The excuse of "no time" will hardly serve when we think of the time we actually spend in other pursuits.

When Dostoevsky was sent to Siberia, at the gate of the prison a woman gave him a little New Testament and it became his food and his friend. Living with that little book, sleeping with it under his pillow, reading it in the dawn when his fellows slept, thinking his way back into the Mind of Christ—by this means he not only saved his sanity, but came out of "The House of the Dead," as he called it, a different and better man. . . .

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