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E veryone admits that we are living in the most liter ate, best-educated age in history. This is the age of the quiz kids, and their very braininess may be the reason why so many parents are suffering from inferiority feelings. These youngsters are smart, knowing, well-read. At breakfast the other morning a mother said, “ Johnny, eat your cereal!” And Johnny replied, “Motivate me!” But does knowledge alone make a nation great? We are smart people, but what is our intelligence doing for us from the standpoint of character? We need close ex amination at this point, for we have taken the Bible from the public schools and have prohibited opening the school day with prayer. We have largely rejected Sunday as a day of either rest or worship. What is the result? Moral and spiritual values are being lost in the shuffle, and these things have to be taught to every generation, for if we miss just one gen eration, we may lose the gains of nineteen centuries!” How are we going to live? Which way will we take? W ill we live for the temporal or the eternal? W ill we live for God or self?
Paul said, “ I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth” (Rom. 1:16 KJV). How I wish that every nation in the world would enunciate this testimony! America in particular is in real danger of allowing pleasure, material things, and sex to crowd God out. And this is becoming all too char acteristic of every nation in the world. Where are we at fault? In the United States we have more church members and college graduates than ever before, but between 1950 and 1960, juvenile arrests in creased 105 per cent. In 1960 Americans spent $258,000,000 in legalized horse-race betting. Embezzlement of sums of $100,000 or more from commercial banks jumped from a total of $8,800,000 in 1959 to $10,000,000 in 1960, and most of fenders were trusted employees of long standing with good records. We seem to be undergoing an entire shift in public opinion with regard to moral standards and spiritual ideals. How has this come about? Well, first, twentieth-century wars can be blamed in part, for war is always disastrous to morals. Murder
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