seen two world wars and another great conflict in Korea. Now we are seeing our boys being processed into the Asiatic “meat grinder.” When will the end be? God said, “The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.” What tremendous wailing goes up to heaven for the mil lions of people who have been bru tally murdered in modern times. In a quieted story, “Esquire” maga zine carried an article from World War II in which the author de clares, “The devastation of Dresden in February, 1945, was one of the most terrifying crimes against hu manity. The Red Army was approach ing 60 miles away. A million refugees had swollen the population of Dres den, a totally non-military city and hospital center, to one and a quarter million people. British and American bombers loosed three waves of attacks within 12 hours following up with Mustang divers to snipe off any flee ing survivors. Out of 28,410 houses in the inner city, 24,866 were destroyed. Eleven square miles were devastated with 35,000 recognizable corpses and an estimated 100,000 who couldn’t be identified. By c o n tra s t Hiroshima casualties were 71,879.”
While we can thank God for our humanitarian government, we, too, must answer His penetrating ques tion concerning the blood which has been shed. Jesus solemnly said in Matthew 25, “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory, and before him shall be gathered all na tions. And he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep.” This judgment is of the IF WE ON LY UNDERSTOOD Could we but draw back the curtains That surround each other's lives, See the naked hearts and spirits, Know what spurs the action gives, 1 Often we would find it better. If we only understood. Could we judge all deeds by motives, See the good and bad within, Often we should love the sinner All the while we loathed the sin. Could we know the powers working In the heart's integrity We should judge each other's errors With more patient charity. living nations when Christ returns. Men say, “These are fortunes and misfortunes of war.” Yet God must still be saying, “Thy brother’s blood cries unto me from the ground.” In this so-called Christian era we seem utterly oblivious to the blood of the Son of God, shed on Calvary’s cross to bring peace between man and the Lord, as well as peace between man and man. This is God’s way, His only means of eternal life and escape from con demnation. Only divine judgment can stop the blood shed. May God hasten the day of Christ’s coming and king dom when peace shall indeed reign upon earth. 18 Oh, we judge each other harshly Knowing not life's hidden force. Knowing not the fount of action Is less turbid at its source. Seeing not amid the evil All the golden grains of good. We should love each other better If we only understood.
Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland (center), is honored by the Biola Board of Directors with the recent an nouncement that the education building will now be known as "Sutherland Hall." With the Biola president is Dr. Louis T. Talbot (left), chancellor, and Dr. Ray A. Myers, chairman of the Board of Directors. The plaque reads in part, "in recogni tion of the exceptional leadership and untiring and dedicated life work . . . serving Biola since 1936."
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