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it. Will my prayer life be quickened in doing it? Will my' life count more for God? These are questions of chief importance. ------- AUGUST 8, 1943 YOUTH AT THE WHEEL 2 T imothy 2:15 By William Retts- Introduction •A short time ago, two young Army fliers hurtled their Republic "Thun derbolt” fighter planes through space at 725 miles per hour.- Symbolic it is, that two young Americans should be the first to attain such a speed—faster- than any other human beings ever have trayeled. Symbolic it is of Amer ica’s coming air supremacy both in pilots and planes, and significant in that it draws our attention to the fact that the frontiers of today are being conquered by the youth of the world. This fact came home forcefully to me a few months ago when I learned that although I am only twenty-eight, with twelve hundred h o u r s on my log books, I am too old to become a com bat pilot. In the air, a man is old at twenty-eight! ------- For Those Who Have Topics I. YOUTH AT JHE WHEEL OF-DES TINY. , Youth, today is at the wheel of our destiny as a nation. The Ma r i n e fighter-pilots who wrote a saga of the air over Guadalcanal were nearly all under twenty-three years of age. The men doing the hard jobs in our armed forces are young men. The comman dos, paratroopers, tank-men, subma rine and PT boat crews, pilots, navi gators, bombardiers, and gunners all seek out the young, physically fit men for their members. II. YOUTH AT THE WHEEL OF IN DUSTRY. In industry the same fact is evident.' A great LeTqurneau Ordnance plant in Mississippi has a general manager who is only thirty-four years old. The plant superintendent is twenty-seven? and the chief engineer is just twenty- four! Youth is at the wheel of indus try. (Local examples may be cited easily.) III. YOUTH AT THE WHEEL OF MORALS. What about the moral realm? Do young people today know God better, lead more consecrated lives, and pio neer the vast resources of God’s power more than young people did a decade ago? We need only to glance at the statistics of drunkenness and crime to see that they do not. The average criminal age continues to s t e a d i l y lower. Boy "gangs” receive nation wide publicity because of their defiant and brazen crimes. The tide of ju venile delinquency rises in a floodlike wave in spite of all attempts to stop it. The moral conditions around our
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Carlton C. Buck 3. Just as in the realm of literature and music, Satan has, in the realm of amusements, produced attractive and deadly pleasures as counterfeits of those honoring our Lord. Discuss some of the c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of Satan’s amusements (without trying to pick any certain ones), i. e., sensual, dis sipating, degrading, dishonoring to the Lord, discouraging to p r a y e r and study, of the Word. II, WAYS OF TESTING OUR AMUSE MENTS. 1. One Christian young person said, “I put every amusement, under this test: The effect it has on me, the effect it might have on my brother, and the effect it would have on my Lord." 2. Another young person said, "Here is my test for amusements: Could I go to that place or do that thing— (1) conscious of my Lord's certain and speedy return, (2) able to give a testimony of His saving grace, (3) realizing that my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and (4) without being a stumbling block?” 3. These “tests” reveal a desire to please the Lord by all means, and at any cost. Above all, they are Scrip tural, The Word of God is the convinc ing, positive standard by which we may test all amusements. The following conclusive passages from God’s Word are excellent for comment and memorization: 1 Corin thians 6:19; 10:31; Colossians 3:17; Romans 14:21; 1 John 2:15-17. (Also 2 Cor. 6:17; 2 Tim. 2:4; Col. 1:18; Phil. 4:8; 1 Cor. 8, may be considered.) For the Leader 1. Emphasize that there is a double standard for amusements. A rule which holds for the child of God (John 1:12) is not binding on one who is unsaved. John 3:18 may be used. 2. William Orr, in his booklet, What Every Christian Ought to Know, says that we should not ask what is wrong about a thing, but what is good about
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