Article September 19, 1959 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Myrtle Sevits Stout, Eugene Carson Blake, A. Robens

Myrtle Sevits Stout in The Salvation Army's War Cry Chicago, Illinois

We found cause for dismay when we walked about the yard of a new home several years ago. The neglected flower bed was infested with bindweed.... It is a pestilential weed.... Every scrap can sprout and make a vigorous new plant to rapidly entwine and choke your finest flowers....

The writer to the Hebrews must have had knowledge of a similar weed when he warned, "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled."

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