Against Whom Time Ever Runs – Sunday, July 30, 1944
The news that speaks from headlines these days indicates dramatically how time runs against those who have built on false foundations. The trend of current happenings reminds us that there are those who can wait, and there are those who can’t—and those whom time presses most are those whose deeds may, by their very ruthlessness, have postponed retribution, but who cannot at last avert it. That which they have to do, they must do quickly.
They are those who must take desperate chances and pursue their lives hazardously—who must place others in peril—who must gamble on expediency and opportunism. Their works cannot withstand the test of time nor the scrutiny of calm, quiet truth. Time runs out for those who are eluding justice. Time runs out for those who are striving frenziedly to keep ahead of the consequences of their own misdoing.
Time runs against those who have flagrantly misused it—because the longer time runs, the more likely is the falsity of their position to be exposed. Of course, in a sense, ultimately time runs out for all of us. The prophets have often spoken of a fullness of times in the age of the world, which many doubt not we have lived to see in part—but there is also a fullness of time in the lives of all men, which may be imminently nearer than most of us realize. For any man it could be any minute; for most men it comes unexpectedly soon; for all men it comes inevitably; for some it is tempered by the calm assurance that the end of time is merely a convenient measure in an endless eternity. And so it would seem that time is pressing us all these days, so urgent are the demands, so intense is the living of this breathless generation—but there are those in whose favor time runs, and those whom time runs against—there are those who can afford to wait and those who can’t—and the latter live always with the uncomfortable assurance that time will deliver an inevitable justice—and justice is the terror of the unjust, against whom time ever runs.
Heard over Radio Station KSL and the nationwide Columbia Broadcasting System, from the Tabernacle, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Sunday, July 30, 1944. Copyright – 1944.
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July 30, 1944
Broadcast Number 0,780