A Sign of the Times by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 41.

A Sign of the Times

By Editor

A Sign of the Times.—The Advance of July 27 has an article entitled "A Sign of the Times." It discusses the subject of "retreats" taken by Catholic priests from time to time, and thinks that it would be a good thing for the overdriven Protestant pastor to go apart into a quiet place, and rest, and think, and pray." And doubtless it would. But the writer gives a hint of modern religious union in his article when he tells of eighteen ministers who met together in an Iowa town. He says:—

The gathering was not of one party, as lines are commonly drawn. Some would be ranked as conservatives, some, new theology men; one, Rev. S. M. Crothers, of St. Paul, is a Unitarian; and there was no conscious avoidance of any burning question, but rather the most perfect freedom of debate; but there was unbroken unity in the company, because these men, each in his own way, had reached that conception of Christian doctrine wherein lies "the peace of the church."

It just struck us that the Bible idea of unity presented only one way, and that not our way, but God's way—Christ "the way." The peace of the church respects Him "who is our peace."