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THE STORM FACING AMERICA ■■ aoday , A merica faces one o f the most imposing, overwhelm- ■ ing, and widespread revolutions in its history, or for that matter in the history o f any leading culture now in the tomb o f antiquity. It is not a revolution between races, nor a revolution o f the working classes, nor is it a revolution o f political powers; it is much more terrifying and devastating than this. Today, America faces a sex revolution, the destructive seeds o f which have already been planted, and the fruits o f which are already being garnered. This abundant harvest o f filth and degradation could well mean the complete collapse o f the free society which we have known in our land since the signing o f the Decelaration o f In dependence in 1776. Men and women do not seem to realize, or else they are not concerned, that civilization trembles on the very brink o f disaster and final calamity. Whether we like to think about it or not, apart from the dedi cated few, we are rearing a crop o f teenagers who know nothing about the righteousness that exalts a nation; they are being shown, by adults, the sinfulness that is a reproach to any people. A mother recently wrote, "Surely you are not so naive as to admit that things are different today. In this age in which we live my thirteen-year-old daughter is a sophisticated young lady. She knows more than I knew when I was nineteen.” The Reader’s Digest agrees with her to this extent: "Today things are vastly different, for there are more boys and girls in trouble, more serious trouble, and at an earlier age, than ever before. And it is not simply because there are more boys and girls. One bride out o f six who was married last year was seventeen years or younger. A recent study revealed that almost forty per cent o f the teen age brides interviewed, admitted they were pregnant the day they took their marriage vows!” Ann Landers, nationally known newspaper columnist, sums it up by saying, "N o one puts it in so many words, but there is in our viewpoint today the suggestion that we may as well live it up fast because tomorrow may never come. And, among too many teenagers, 'living it up fast’ is expressed in accelerated dat- ing, early smoking and drinking, sexual experimentation, pre mature marriage, and premature divorce. Our children are grow-
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