emerging nations, have been able to sound off in their denuncia tion of the United States. The popular thing to do in these United Nations meetings has been for individuals who have requested and received financial help from the United States to bite vicious ly the hand that is feeding them and to berate this country most vehemently for not doing even more. There has been no sense of appreciation whatever for what has been done, only loud complaints because more has not been done. This writer cites such statistics as that in the Viet Nam War to date 60,000 Americans have been killed. In the Korean War, 33,000 Americans were killed. In World War II, 292,000 Ameri cans were killed, and in World War I, 126,000 Americans were killed. Of course, World War II had far and away the largest number of military personnel killed among both the allies and the enemy, namely almost 17 million. This was in the military alone; there were over 34 million civilians killed in World War II. Beginning with the Civil War, the United States has been en gaged in a major conflict approximately every 25 years. Follow ing the Civil War came the Spanish-American War of 1898. World War I concluded in 1918. World War II ended in 1945. We are now approximately 23 years beyond World War II. The question remains: Will history repeat itself once again? There are those who would have us believe that under the influence of Christianity the world is becoming more and more civilized, more and more Christianized, until finally we will move away from the concept of war altogether and will settle disputes by peaceful means — if indeed there are any disputes to settle. Rather, people will be living at peace one with another. Incident ally, it is interesting to note that these same visionaries who conceive o f such a world of peace and good will are in large measure the same ones who are promoting the cause of Civil Rights and marching with the rioters. They themselves are fomenting all kinds o f disturbances, even to the point of openly and flagrantly violating the laws of the land. Thus they are becoming willful rebels against all law which does not happen to suit their fancy. They proceed to loot, prowl, rob, steal, destroy anything or anyone who gets in their way. At the same time they openly boast of their Civil Rights as though no one else had any Civil Rights at all. This is but another form o f war in which our beloved land is engaged in right now. It’s not military war, but it’s civilian war just as vicious, just as destructive, and just as stupid as many of the military wars which have been carried on in other countries during the past decades. The simple facts of the case are that all the education that has been developed during the centuries and particularly during recent years has not changed the inner man in the least. The heart o f man is still desperately wicked, totally selfish and completely ruthless. The natural man is well-nigh brainless. The Lord says, “ Come now, let us reason together . . . though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.’’ A man with a normal intellect is one who will sit down and reason out things. The man with a minimum o f brains is the one who only knows of resorting to brute strength in order to gain his ends. The only way to deal with this type is to suppress him by meeting force with greater force. This is the way of the natural man. Our Lord says it will continue this way until the end o f the age. Only the Prince of Peace can bring peace to the world for He alone can put His peace into the hearts o f men. QH
REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF
THY YOUTH — Ecclesiastes 12.1
There is no book of guidance, no textbook for the young, that can equal the Great Textbook of the Ages — the Book that gives us rules for living that will never be superseded, that will never pass away. There are no Bibles made with more care and skill than the Bibles made in Cambridge, where the printingof Bibles has been a responsibility of fine craftsmeij since the sixteenth century.
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