Article March 17, 1951 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Robert James McCracken, R W. Faulkner, A. W. Fortune

From a column by
Robert James McCracken
in the Christian World
London, England

By word and deed he [Jesus] set forth spiritual attitudes, moral principles which are timeless and universal in their validity and as relevant in our industrialized age as in agricultural Palestine, principles like "Love your enemies" and "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."

So long as this is remembered no one is likely to label Jesus' teaching antiquated or irrelevant. Too much can be made of the difference between his world and ours.... Then, as now, there were wars and rumors of wars, and back of them exploitation, oppression, and unrest.... It is wholesome to face up to the uncommonly high standards which Jesus sets us. Let me name some of them. We are to put God and not self first. We are not to be anxious about food or clothes or money. We are to be absolutely honest. We are to love our enemies and forgive until seventy times seven. We are to be perfect as God is perfect....

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