Article March 28, 1953 Issue

Signs of the times

with contributions from Victor C. Roebuck, Norman Vincent Peale, Raphael H. Miller, J. L. Thompson

From a sermonette by Victor C. Roebuck in the Times, Bryan, Ohio

I know that by declaring the Bible to be our greatest national asset I will bring down upon me the guffaws and the denials of anarchy which despise the Bible. But nevertheless ... I declare that material progress is insecure and ever dangerous without spiritual progress. Woodrow Wilson once said, "The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually."

... Shall we go forward with our Bible or backward without it? Unless, by the Bible, we see past the dark material into the luminous spiritual we will go the way of old Babylon. Unless, by the Bible, we take our eyes off gold and put them on the treasures of spiritual reality we will become as old Rome. Unless, by the Bible, we see past passion to poise, past the glare of power to the abiding beauty of service, our fate will be as tragic as that of old Greece. Unless, by the Bible we see beyond greed to the luxury of giving we will become as old Nineveh.

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