Article August 23, 1958 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from David Browne Pearson, A. B. Simpson

Rev. David Browne Pearson
in The Exponent
Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Religion means life, and it has no other center than God. "In Him we live and move and have our being." Apart from God we can do nothing. He is the basis of religion, of life and of the Universe. Religion should be the unshaken fortress of faith, where the fact of the living God may be made manifest to all men in time. ...

Religious living requires a first hand discovery of God. It means much more than finding arguments by which to prove that God exists. We might know all about God and yet not know Him. Our practice is the only sure evidence even to ourselves that we are genuinely religious. Religion to too many people has become traditional, conventional, a family heirloom or inheritance that touches the outer fringes of life, instead of a vital religious experience. The transforming power of real religion has never been released in their lives. ...

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