Just a word to make it clear that it is not the War that has made this new world. That is often carelessly alleged but the obverse is the truth. The war itself was the outcrop of a new world to which humanity had not adjusted itself. Tt was the achievements of our! applied science that set us he problem. of a more complet environment. What the war has done has been to force our recognition of the law that we must conform to the new conditiond or perish. We knew that was true for biology but it is as stringent for human society, The laws that underpin our common Jife were. once promulgated from the cloudy, stormy peaks of Sinai. And many a social law has been learned since. then under like conditions, in hours of stress and of revolution. Only by keeping the law increasingly revealed has society held its own. The War has been our Sinai. The law for the? new. world—has been promulgated through its fire ana darkness—the law of human. solidarity, that we are bound to take other peoples into account, into our respect, into terms of fellowship. President—* Wilson, President Smuts, and as T believe, our own Prime Minister have been working for this end. But how few among the chief men of Christendom have shown a grasp of this law, dnd what a minority of citizens aye seriously giving their moral support!
It is because we transgress the law thus urgently laid upon that we suffer from the curse unemployment anid revolution, terror, starvation and utter chaos, This is the crusade which has to be preached from one -end of the world to the other, to incline men's hearts to keep this law. For Christ died and rose again in order that human life might continually rise to the advancing claims of its environment, and so be saved. Then the! longing of creation will be satisfied and the purpose of God fulfilled in the revealing of the sons of God.
Who will catch this vision of things and communicate it? Who above all will let it convert the entire habit of his mind? In no other way' can the coming generation be saved from the destruction to which every thinking man knows it is otherwise doomed.
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