TIME FOR THE COMMON MAN by William Ward Ayer
N o v e m b e r :? is the high day of the American Com mon Man. The common man is that faceless, well- known, unknown, exploited, ridiculed, ridden, robbed, deceived, despised, applauded, flattered, coddled mortal. He is the grass roots of society; its prosperity, military strength; its wealth, goodness, badness, degradation, devoutness, virtue, vice, fame, fortune, faith and folly. This Common Man is to be “King for a Day!" We look squarely at this fantastic figure—America’s Common Man—endeavor to evaluate him, not in the light of the spread-eagle oratory of office seekers, but under the stern, yet benevolent, searching, merciful light of God’s Holy Word.
The collective Common Man of the nations is today troubled and vexed by the “ Prince of the Power of the Air” working through economic and social upheaval and religious apostasy. For more than fifty years, a vicious totalitarianism has been sweeping over the world. Nations have been in constant ferment, fulfilling the prophet’s word, “ The wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt” (Isa. 57:20). While the movements under which totalitarianism inarches may have many different names and ideologies—fascism, communism, collectivism, socialism, or a headless democ racy—they are nevertheless one in purpose and result:
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