THE NEED FOR WIND
by Dr. Vance Havner
I T was INTERESTING to read the newspaper accounts at our home in North Carolina about the unusually bad spell of smog here in Los Angeles. An official was quoted as saying, “Only a sweep of winds from else where can relieve the pollution.” We live in a blinding haze with the world smog-bound politically, morally and spiritually. Men are groping, in dark ness. A college in the East, advertising its facilities and recommending itself, made a slight typographical error stating, “We have three thousand stu dents in our ‘mist’.” The “d” was left out. Too many people find themselves in just such a position today. Only the breath of God can dispell this pressure gripping mankind. Experts abound, waiting for the wind to blow. No one really knows what to do, and Washington is help less. No one seems to look beyond the cloudy covering to heaven for the an swer. The smog has blinded too many who will not admit that they are blind leaders of the blind. All sorts of ex
periments are being tried, social re forms, political projects, legislation, education, reformation but the smog doesn’t lift. The winds of God must move in before the plague is con quered. The real problem is sin. Sci ence and sociology don’t have the an swer to man’s iniquity. It is a sad comment to report that the Church is smog-bound, too. The religious world has never been *in greater confusion. There are even those who say, “God is dead.” Such has been said down through the cen turies. The old Book comes to life in the midst of the funeral, outliving all the pallbearers. Experts sit in sym posiums where they mutually pool their ignorance, but they have no an swer. Some don’t even know what the question is. Who is praying with Isaiah today, “O that Thou woulds’t rend the heavens and come down.” Only a divine visitation can meet our need. At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came with a sound from heaven, as of a mighty rushing wind. The word for 3
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