KEY TO AMERICAN SURVIVAL
surroundings and influences. Communism has one billion people under its control after only forty years, while all branches of the Christian church—Catholic and Protestant—number only 820 million after 1900 years. The Bible is no longer the best seller. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John have taken second place to Marx, Engells, Lenin and Stalin. Over two-thirds of the world has abso lutely no knowledge of Christ. The church must now face the question, “W ill the gospel be heard in Russia before the Russian missile is heard in America?” Our only hope is the spiritual regeneration of the Russian people and leaders. We are where we are because of what we are. The love of luxury, the breakdown of integrity and the sexual immorality of America are sapping its spiritual and moral strength. Newsstands are flooded with filth. Truthfulness and honesty are scoffed at on every hand. Juvenile hood lums roam the streets in gangs. These are symptoms of the sickness of America— the sickness of sin. It is the dis ease from which other great nations have died and it will be fatal to America if it is not stopped. Before we can expect regeneration in Russia we must see revival in America. The key to American survival is the Christian home. Here is where character can be molded and standards established. Here is where Christ can be brought to the child and the child to Christ. And here is where parents can renew their spiritual resources for the demands that America’s gravest hour places upon all of us. Edward Hunter is America’s outstanding authority on Communist brain-washing methods. He told a meeting which I attended that to develop mental survival stamina that will keep our service men from giving in under com munist pressure it is necessary first of all to have faith and confidence. This, he said, the military admits it cannot provide. It must be built into the life of the boy long before he enters service. It is the job of the church and the home. If the home fails in its part there is little the church can do and nothing the government can do to make up the deficiency. In this hour of crisis the family altar can mean more than the conference table, intercession can be more im portant than summit talks and Christian training more essential than the boot camp. The Christian home can save America. end
by Dr. George L. Ford Executive Secretary N.A.E.
A m e r ic a ’ s first line of defense is the Christian home, for it is not guided missiles but guided morals that are our great need today. There is no question but that this is the gravest hour we have ever known. We are only ten minutes away from destruction by atomic missiles. If war comes there will be no time for the mobilization of American productive strength, for it will be all over in less than half an hour. I recently heard an American Senator say that in case of atomic war 25 or 30 million of us will die before we wake up the next morning. The situation is just as bad for the church. For every one that is won to Christ twenty-five are bom into heathen
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NOVEMBER, 1960
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