A SIGN OF THE TIMES by United Presbyterian

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 1, 1905

A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

By United Presbyterian

CHRISTIAN conversation is fast becoming a lost art. How seldom do we hear men in places of public concourse, in public conveyances, or in places of business, conversing on sacred themes. Is there any better way of strengthening faith, aside from fellowship with God, than just by laying one faith alongside of another, and comparing one with the other? Here righteousness and peace kiss each other. The way in which another has triumphed over temptation, will enable us to triumph. What has proved a comfort to him, may prove a comfort to us. When one man's hope is joined with another's, it is easier for them both to rise to higher things.

Suppose those two men on the Emmaus road had been talking about the sheep market down at Jerusalem, or the price of olive oil, or doves, or young pigeons, do you suppose their hearts would have burned within them, or Christ would have joined their company, or would have revealed Himself to them later in the breaking of bread? Indeed, they did not know until the long walk was over that the Master Himself had a share in their conversation. May it not be so with us? The failure of religious converse is one reason why our hearts are not more frequently made glad by His presence.—United Presbyterian.