Article January 30, 1954 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Robert James McCracken, George F. Kennan, B. C. Forbes, J. Paul Goebel

From an article by Robert James McCracken in The Christian World, London, England

Great masters of literature in all ages and lands have explored the situation which arises when all a man's earthly interests draw him in one direction and another voice calls him to turn his back on all these and go out into the rising storm and the midnight. Whose is that voice? Where does the sense of moral obligation, so formidably uncompromising, so nakedly final and supreme, come from?

It comes from God. It is the presence of the divine in the soul of man. It is a voice other than human breaking through the clamor of appetite and the resistance of self-interest. ... When he pays attention to that command, he knows that he is giving attention to something that is not earthborn. It is the most obvious and unmistakable evidence available to him of the reality of God. ... It is the voice of God.

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