Article December 16, 1950 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Arthur J. Western, Jean A. Vis, Thomas S. Kepler

Rev. Arthur J. Western in an article in the Expository Times Edinburgh, Scotland

The dejected disciples, who had fished in the dark without result and saw nothing for their work, were told by our Lord to "launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught." Life will not be "bound in shallows and in miseries," need not be a haggard monotony of defeated hopes and useless efforts, if people let the Master urge them into deeper experiences of God's purpose and new discoveries of His love. They must strike out at his command across the sea of troubles that dare them to advance, and find the larger developments. . . . They must commit themselves further to the divine truth that summons, and go all out into the deep.

When the disciples did this, they had a record catch, the biggest haul of their life. You see, the venture of faith is not merely our gamble, but the Master's guidance. . . . Thus the output of faith comes home laden with the treasure of new vision, new certainty, and new resource.

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