Article August 21, 1948 Issue

Signs of the Times

Trust in God

with contributions from Dean Harold A. Bosley, Robert W. Little, George Muller, W. Crawford Jones, Raymond McCallister

Dean Harold A. Bosley Duke Divinity School in an article in The Virginia Methodist Advocate Richmond, Virginia

It is an old secret—one of the oldest in religion—that men should trust in God, and in that trust find strength sufficient for the trials of any day. ... It is an open secret, too. It is plain to even the most casual student that the fundamental strength in religion is confidence in God, in His mercy, in His providence, in His redemptive love.

Yet this selfsame secret of trust in God comes close to being the lost secret of our generation. This better than anything else explains the spiritual tragedy that has overtaken us and our civilization. We have trusted everyone and everything but God. We have rejected the disciplines of prophetic religion only to discover to our immeasurable sorrow that the pleasures of paganism come terribly high. We simply could not believe it when prophetic religion insisted that the only road to the good life and to the good society lay in the glorification of God's will in human life. That, we said, is too high and too hard a road.

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