Article August 30, 1958 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from John Murray, B. L. Barnes, George E. Drew, George E. C. Hayes

Rev. John Murray in The Christian World London, England

Heaven surely is not a place, but a spiritual experience, a personal relationship, a state of mind. We recognise this in our ordinary conversation. When we say a man is "in hell," we mean that he is in the depths of misery, or remorse, that the light of love and hope seems to have gone out, and that life to him is loneliness and a torture. And when we say that he is "in heaven," we mean that he is filled with a sense of joy, that he feels all life to be music and blessing, that he enters with deeper intensity than is normal into the meaning and richness of life. Above all else, man's end and need in life are to know God and to enjoy Him.

Rev. B. L. Barnes in the Front Rank St. Louis, Missouri

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