p. 16 | A Sinking Sun

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 29.

A Sinking Sun.

In the Southern Cross, a religious paper of Australia, is an article by the Bishop of Durham, the title of which is “How May We Stay a Sinking Sun?” This “sinking sun” is England. Among the things which indicate a decline, Bishop Durham speaks of the decaying home, marked by the discontinuance of family prayer, marked by lack of attendance at public worship. The decline is marked also under a widespread decay of the sense of duty. What is true in England is true also in America. He closes with these thoughts: “The sun of England has passed its noon. Is it to sink into the clouds and go down behind the dark hills of time? It need not. The spiritual sky is independent of mechanical law. The Lord may yet bid our dear land shine in purer light, and from a higher point than ever, but I think that if He does, it will be in answer to the voice of a man. It will be because His servants heart by heart, home by home, not in words only, but in life, call aloud to Him to stay the setting.” The great question is, Will they call upon Him, when under the teaching of higher criticism the “Him” is no more than any man.