p. 16 | Wanted - Connection by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 21, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 46.

Wanted — Connection.

By Editor

The Word and Way, a Baptist paper of Kansas City, Missouri, in its issue of August 31, demands a nexus, or connection, between the sayers and the work. It says:

"We Christian people of this particular generation can beat the Jews or anybody else of this or any other time for organizations and plans. We have our big rallies, our big meetings, our big speeches, our big banquets, and our big plans; but somehow we fail to get any working connection with the work. One can hardly go in any direction without colliding with some sort of religious procession en route to some meeting place to talk about what ought to be done and how somebody else ought to do it. Everywhere is heard the rattle of religious machinery of one kind and another. Indeed, there is so much of this kind of noise that the 'still small voice' can scarcely be heard. And so much of this noise is but the rattle of empty machinery!"

This witness speaks truly. Organization carries the matter farther than Peter did. It is not "Lord, what shall this man do?" but, "Lord, we will show him what to do." The attitude makes a great difference.

Thursday, November 30, has been designated by the President, in harmony with our American custom, as the day for thanksgiving and prayer. Following the precedent of former years, he requests that the people of the nation assemble in their usual places of worship on that day and give thanks to the divine Father for the mercies and blessings of the year. We certainly have many things to be thankful for, and it is highly appropriate that on special occasions the continual daily offering of thanksgiving should be supplemented by the united gratitude of all whose hearts respond to the mercies and blessings of Jehovah.