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NOVEMBER 18, 1945 RE -EDUCATION FOR PEACE I saiah 2 :14 ; 11:6-9; E zek iel 34:25-28 During these war times, through radio, newspaper and other means, the people of all nations have been sub jected to high-pressure education in order to harden both soldiers and civilians for the rigors of war. In Axis countries, this process of conditioning people to war began many years be fore the hostilities broke out. With the coming of peace, the process of education will have to be reversed. I. MAN’S PEACE To answer this question of re-edu cation for peace, one thing must be constantly kept in ¡mind. Dr. Ste phen Slocum has said, “Man is nat urally self-centered. The baby instinc tively reaches for everything in sight and thrusts it into his, mouth. As he grows older, his desires expand with his reach, and the instinct becomes a habit. Even the impulses of love and patriotism are forms of selfishness, centering in objects in which we have a personal interest. All man’s natural impulses are motivated by self-inter est, and until he learns the way of sacrifice, no peace that he can devise can be either just or durable. "The record of human nature in action is written in history. Waves of conquest, energized by personal am bition or racial conflicts, have marked the course of mankind through the ages, until today the intensity of the struggle is titanic. The world has always been divided into rival factions with conflicting idealogies impossible to reconcile. Although some of these issues may be temporarily suspended, they are never destroyed, for they are the results of the inevitable conflict of race and environment . . Civiliza tion has only served to intensify the law of the jungle and refine its cru elties. It is not man’s mind that must be cultivated, but his heart that must be changed, before he can make any real progress on the pathway to peace.” So it is we see that the education, of the mind through the means of the radio, newsprint, books, publica tions and public schools alone is not enough, important as it is. But there is the great heart education which is more necessary, and here is where the great work of the Church through evangelism and foreign missions will be necessary. The way of peace, opened at Calvary, is God’s last word to the world. This then, as Christians young in life, is our work and word in the postwar world. II. GOD’S PEACE Men and nations desire above all
else security. The blood and the wealth of the whole world have been poured out to secure peace. But war cannot win security, for it does not alter human nature. “The world by con quest can never achieve more than a brief lull in the struggle, until hu man nature is regenerated. No form of human authority, civil, military, or ecclesiastical, can establish security, for the reason that it is God’s world, and just as long as man is at war with God, his puny microcosm will be in a state of perpetual turmoil and unrest.” The best education for peace is to teach that he, man, must accept III. GOD’S PEACE TERMS If all men everywhere were regen erated through faith in Christ, no one in all Christendom would doubt but that this stricken world would enter into an era of lasting peace. It is likewise evident that so long as men reject the Saviour, the world will re main in a state of turmoil and strife. The only approach to a just and en during peace is the way of the Cross. The Scrioture passages in this lesson describe the world under the rule of the coming Prince of Peace who will someday return to the earth to estab lish His kingdom of righteousness. Then shall men know war no more. Man’s education for Deace must be learned from the Word of God. NOVEMBER 25, 1945 OPEN DOORS FOR CHRISTIAN God gave Paul a vision of a Mace donian beseeching him to leave Asia Minor and to come into Europe to help. This call completely changed Paul’s plans, so that, instead of re turning home, he went on westward; landing at Neopolis, whence he pro ceeded to Philippi. So, early in its history, the Church entered an open door to the great foreign mission field, and the influence of that act has been tremendous. Today, there are open doors around the world to be entered by Christian, forces. It is God’s will that, when you see an open door be fore you, you answer the challenge, although it may mean the changing of all your own plans. I. THE OPEN DOORS ABROAD It has always been God’s program for the Church to reach out beyond her own borders with the Gospel mes sage. So the Lord has kept open doors of ministry and service before His children (Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 1:8). As Christians, like Paul, have entered these doors, progress has been made in the spreading of the Gospel. Great spiritual awakenings have followed because young men and women have dared for Christ’s sake to “enter.” ENDEAVOR A cts 16:1-12
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