Signs of the Times

with contributions from Andrew Daughters

From an editorial in The Morning Call Paterson, New Jersey

The founding fathers, in times of ... stress, tinned their attention to God. Too few of our people nowadays have remembered, and still fewer have been influenced by the fact, that our leaders—Washington, Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and others—turned to prayer in their moments of greatest achievement, as well as in the hours of darkest anxiety. Of late years our absorption in material progress has made us apt to forget the spiritual roots from which we grew....

It is in God, indeed, that we must trust; it is by Him alone we can hope to be delivered from whatever dangers beset us.

From an article in The Evening News Manchester, Lancashire, England

The good is never lost; the triumphs of evil are only temporary....

What we do not sufficiently appreciate is the thrilling fact that behind every form of genuine goodness there lies the infinite omnipotence of God to sustain its momentum and to feed it with unquenchable vitality....

We Christians grow far too hysterically alarmed when impudent evil lifts its head and hands to strike its venomous blows. The result is that we run to the brutal powers of secular militarism for the protection of Christian values as though those values were not guaranteed by the presence and power of God.

Instead of surrendering to the powers of the world, Christians should embrace the divine promise: "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper." ... The good is invincible; it cannot be destroyed or overcome.

Rev. Andrew Daughters in a sermon as reported in the Columbia Basin News Pasco, Washington

We cannot set up for ourselves miniature moral laws which are convenient because they are so easy to keep in sight. We must rather guide ourselves by the unchanging truths of God....

The church is Christ's own agency for bringing the works of man into line with the will of God. For without the unchanging, eternal will of God, we are lost in a world where every wind and season brings a new trend and a new fad in morals and in acceptable conduct. And to our confusion there is no end. Let us chart our course, not by the mountains or the sea, lasting as they may seen; to be, but by the word of God, unchanging, eternal love.

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