Article March 9, 1963 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Robert G. Longaker

From "The Sign," by permission of A. R. Mowbray & Co. Limited, London in St. Mark's Parish Magazine
Swindon, Wiltshire, England

Always power has meant the ability to move things, to shape things. Within the last hundred years, moreover, mankind has discovered more kinds of it which he can put to work than he found in all the ages of his history before. ... There is another kind; much more important; much less used; and yet available all the time for all of us as the gift of God. This is the power of the Holy Spirit.... This was the power which came upon that little group of men and women in the room in Jerusalem at Pentecost which enabled them, which energized them, to find a new strength and to rise above their own limitations so that they became in effect different people, capable of far greater levels of achievement than had ever been possible to them before.

That is, after all, how the Holy Spirit works.... Spiritual power enables men and women to move and shape their own lives. And in this ability to move and shape their own lives under the hand of God stands the hope of altering the world they live in.

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