The marching men of World Wars I and II have been disillusioned.
Many have discovered
except as the individual obtains the abiding peace of Christ within his own heart.
Weets, He was laughed to scorn hy
the Utopianists ol the 1920'% About
ten vears later (193% when the
Nazis had already taken over the
multiplied. taking the place of man.
ual labour. Machines meant wealth.
and wealth meant power. Money was
invested mm the purchase of more ma-
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By H. L. Rudy
veins of sovernmeene in Germany,
he published his “Yohee der Ton
scherdune™ Years of Dedisiony on
whieh he forewoe a second world war
The Nazis immediately banned Spen-
cler’s writings tn Germany, the same
as they had done with other similar
publications. So voice afer ICSIIRE
: was silenced. More than half of the
world dreamed on. giving vil minds
free rein, only to wake up in a fools
. paradise when it sas too late to save
the situation,
In the meantime industry and tech:
nology seemed to offer to man the
clue to success ane happiness, Mone
ev began to flow [reelv, oihines were
JUNE, 047
Chines to give nan more power and
more leistre, Man said in his hear:
“Nol, take thine case.” He had
need of nothing, He believed he was
master of the sitnation around hon,
and if mere power was needed he
cold acer that too,
What oo hevdav for dictators! The
world had never bhofore offered such
Cptortin ities to acquire power. With
the moral roots of the past dried up.
ran had Hide or na power of resis
acinst the totalitarian
that was sweeping Furope and Large
areas of the Fast and Far East For
the moment the world seemed to
offer everything: Tuxories. comforts,
wave
lee
there is no peace
amusernents. licence, even peace.
War itso was outlawed by the nas
HONS dsm
tional policy,
Bur man bad failed to consider
onc thing: a rue knowledee of hime
self and of his relationship wo his
feliow creatures and to God. The for-
ces of evil were at work in human
hems striving for the mastery of the
world. Lying, deception. brutality,
disregard for human riehis. hatred
of cvery moral standurd and precept.
herded up in open hostilities to bes
come known as World War TI. Tor
six vears the holocaust lasted. In
Fuarope there were 2070 davs of fight
ines between the United States and
Japan. 1.546 davs: between China
and Japan, 2.946 days, Jeaving a total
of 22060000 military and civilian
mstrument of nterna-
dead, and 31400000 wounded, hee
sides conmiless millions left home
less and destitute.
As the smoke cleared away, the
rains of smouldering cities and mil
fons of wandering skeletons with all
their 101] of moral and spivitual suf
feving came into closer perspective,
he spectacle stated the spirit of
man. The beasthiness of the unre:
venerated human hear is
into ball view, Whi 1s more,
coming
the dis-
mteoration of civilization and enliure
his nor abated. despite the cessation of
open hostilities. Power is being
matched with power, Weapons of
destruction far more devastating
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