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Most of the latest discoveries have made war more terrible, and while they have given us many conveniences and comforts, they have made life more complicated, peace more difficult and the human heart more troubled.
Undoubtedly we have improved means but unfortunately, we have not improved ends.
We have better ways of getting there, But we have no better places to go. We can save more time, but we are not making any better use of the time that we save.
Anyone of you can agree with me that we have made far more advances in the scientific world than we have made in the world of morals and ethics.
Spiritually, we have not kept with our progress in the realm of sciences and invention.
If great advances have been made in the realm of the spirit, then either they have not been reported or publicized, or we have chosen to ignore them….else we are forced to the conclusion that they have not been made at all.
We hang on every word reporting the doings of the atomic scientists. We are aware of them and their work.
We lap up every word describing new inventions, and we eagerly discuss and examine pictures of the new inventions, weapons, automobiles and gadgets.
Why is it that we have so little interest in spiritual discoveries – new discoveries of God
Of God working in His world
Of God dealing with His people???????
Why is it that we are so little curious about the discovery of new techniques for living and new ideas that would make for our happiness and the peace of the world???
The scientists have forged far ahead. What they have invented and provided for us has out-stripped our moral character, our spiritual quality, and our religious faith.
But why are there so few spiritual discoveries to match the progress made by science?????
The answer lies in a lack of researchers!!!!!!
Men have been willing to let mosquitoes bite them in the interests of science and human welfare.
How many are willing to give themselves away to take risks in spiritual research?
We cannot do much for the world, until, first of all, we have done something within ourselves.
The longer an orchestra plays, the more it needs to be tuned up.
The further an aeroplane flies, the more it requires ground service to put it into shape again.
But here we are. We have money, we are well-clothed, we are comfortably housed, we have cars….and all the latest gadgets in our homes. But we are spiritually undernourished.
We have neglected spiritual food. Without spiritual exercise, our souls are soft and flabby. The temptation is powerful to become so obsessed with the urgent, brutal facts of the immediate world that faith in the Christ and His way of living becomes like a lovely impractical dream, a pious hope, a frail illusion.
But remember how that lovely dream started in a world mastered by military empire and filled by the thundering tramp of Caesar’s armies, a dream shared by a handful of simple folk. This little group, believing in a spiritual message, accepted the tension of living in two violently antagonistic worlds- ROME’S and CHRIST’S.
The challenge today, pointed and heated by the atomic bomb, is a challenge to spiritual research.
Undoubtedly we have improved means but unfortunately, we have not improved ends.
We have better ways of getting there, But we have no better places to go. We can save more time, but we are not making any better use of the time that we save.
Anyone of you can agree with me that we have made far more advances in the scientific world than we have made in the world of morals and ethics.
Spiritually, we have not kept with our progress in the realm of sciences and invention.
If great advances have been made in the realm of the spirit, then either they have not been reported or publicized, or we have chosen to ignore them….else we are forced to the conclusion that they have not been made at all.
We hang on every word reporting the doings of the atomic scientists. We are aware of them and their work.
We lap up every word describing new inventions, and we eagerly discuss and examine pictures of the new inventions, weapons, automobiles and gadgets.
Why is it that we have so little interest in spiritual discoveries – new discoveries of God
Of God working in His world
Of God dealing with His people???????
Why is it that we are so little curious about the discovery of new techniques for living and new ideas that would make for our happiness and the peace of the world???
The scientists have forged far ahead. What they have invented and provided for us has out-stripped our moral character, our spiritual quality, and our religious faith.
But why are there so few spiritual discoveries to match the progress made by science?????
The answer lies in a lack of researchers!!!!!!
Men have been willing to let mosquitoes bite them in the interests of science and human welfare.
How many are willing to give themselves away to take risks in spiritual research?
We cannot do much for the world, until, first of all, we have done something within ourselves.
The longer an orchestra plays, the more it needs to be tuned up.
The further an aeroplane flies, the more it requires ground service to put it into shape again.
But here we are. We have money, we are well-clothed, we are comfortably housed, we have cars….and all the latest gadgets in our homes. But we are spiritually undernourished.
We have neglected spiritual food. Without spiritual exercise, our souls are soft and flabby. The temptation is powerful to become so obsessed with the urgent, brutal facts of the immediate world that faith in the Christ and His way of living becomes like a lovely impractical dream, a pious hope, a frail illusion.
But remember how that lovely dream started in a world mastered by military empire and filled by the thundering tramp of Caesar’s armies, a dream shared by a handful of simple folk. This little group, believing in a spiritual message, accepted the tension of living in two violently antagonistic worlds- ROME’S and CHRIST’S.
The challenge today, pointed and heated by the atomic bomb, is a challenge to spiritual research.
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