Article November 22, 1941 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Endurance and Character Building

with contributions from James Reid, Richard K. Morton, Fred A. Line, Andrew Roddan, Bernard Barker

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

The New Testament writers were experts in the handling of trouble. That is why the wise man will turn to them today. The very word which they use for it is revealing. They call it tribulation, and the "tribulum" was a sort of harrow that broke up the soil and tore out the weeds. ...

There is a point in every serious task where we are tempted to give up. That is the point "where the worst turns the best to the brave." The life of faith and of obedience to Christ is often like walking through a tunnel. There is a place where we lose the light that showed us the way in and where we cannot yet see the light ahead. There we must not falter if we are to get through. We must summon our fortitude and go on—in the dark. There is no other way.

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