Article April 6, 1963 Issue

Signs of the Times

W. B. J. Martin

The Link

The Reverend W. B. J. Martin, D.D. in The Link, a Protestant magazine for Armed Forces personnel Washington, District of Columbia

What is the Bible about, from cover to cover? Is it not suffused throughout with the conviction that real life is a dialogue with God? ...

The Bible shows us a host of vital, dynamic men who are head-over-heels in conversation with God. They talk to God and they listen to God. Their whole life is one constant response. In everything they do, they are answering back, they are responding to unseen signals, accepting and interpreting messages from beyond, and this is what gives their lives dignity and power.

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