Article July 9, 1949 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from John H. Ansberg, R. G. Purdy

From The Canadian Baptist Toronto, Ontario, Canada

When the apostle exhorts his readers to "owe no man any thing" (Rom. 13:8), he wasn't talking merely of money or in terms of legal obligations. Surely he meant that no Christian should owe, because of selfish reservation and withholding, the love that should be expressed, the service that can be rendered, the gifts that should be offered, the testimony that should be declared. We owe our neighbors many things that money cannot buy. They are debts of honor—debts that we pay in loving service because Christ [Jesus] loved us and gave himself for us. Man cannot compel the payment of these debts, but the love of Christ can constrain them.

From an editorial in World's Crisis Boston, Massachusetts

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