Show Weeks Week's Activities and Services of Salt Lake City Church j S g Sermon for br fJ f I By Rev Fenwick T. T Fowler 1 Pastor First Baptist Church When Russian soldiers entered Austria and Romania as conquerors conquerors con con- in the concluding phases of the las lasts las war Ivan discovered that contrary to what the politburo had told him other peoples had bad a higher standard of living than he did They had watches silks and scores of luxuries which Ivan had not owned Significantly Significantly Significantly Sig Sig- now there comes the announcement that the politburo is trying to give the Russians more of the niceties of life life life-in- in including perfume The most popular brand is called Wait Vait for Me l On the label of this perfume the subterranean desires and longings of a whole people are bared This Russian perfume the fact that our world is still composed of haves and have When a have nation like Russia puts puts- a national longing like Wait for Me Meon on a permute perfume bottle it is calling serious attention to the international international international inter inter- national theme son song sung in smothered half tones by three fourths of the fully people peo peo- pIe of the world Paul wa was wag ready to face the fact whether t. t we wc are or not that the great f t discrepancies in possessions J among people or peoples always always al at- ways foment strife i When Paul faced the Athenians Athe Athe- t on the matter of their idol to the unknown god he 3 f laid down the only basis basis for I j I i J 5 f V world harmony in his words L. L r v i God hath bath made of one blood t it A Aall J all nations of men for to dwell 4 on all the thc face of the earth That they should seek the if the feel Lord haply they might after Him and find Him S though b He be not far from every everyone one of us For in Him we Jive and move and have haie our being as certain also of your own poets have said for we are also his offspring Acts 1726 There was Pauls Paul's plea to a divided world If he were here today it would be his response response response re re- to the international theme song Wait Vait for Me But we have resisted the Scripture and said a Chinaman Chinaman Chinaman China China- man is not like us give us-give give him his rice and his hs ancestors and he is happy Give a Mexican a sombrero and a siesta in the sun and he asks no more Give a Negro a red tie and some yellow yellow yellow yel yel- low shoes and he has the world with a fence around it But we Saxons Anglo-Saxons are different We Ve are cultured we have to have beautiful ul things for our bodies stimulating books and music for our minds and lofty ideals and goals for Jor our soaring spirits Just how we explain away a great deal of preoccupation with noises like The uThe Thing lhing our amusement in female grunt and groan artists on TV and oUr vast ast preference for a jalopy to ahome ahome a ahome home has never been quite clear We say we are different But Gods God's word says All men are of one blood that all men should seek the Lord that the Lord is near every everyone one of us that in Him every man lives and moves and has his being that all men are His offspring Which adds up to one great truth truth truth- all men have similar desires and wants when all men know what is available it goes on one mans man's want list just about as fast as No Peace Until Men Share From Pauls Paul's words to the Athenians there is to be gleaned the unmistakable inference there shall be no peace until men share until share until men share on some fair basis of effort the wealth of the planet Chaotic world conditions are driving all men to face Gods God's laws of stewardship The cattle on a thousand hills are His They are not John D. D Rockefellers Rockefeller's or Aga Khans They Th-ey are not Americas America's or The same is true of the earths earth's oil coal iron uranium They do not belong to any nation nation nation na na- na- na tion regardless of what national boundary lines contain them they belong to God and must be administered for the best wel wel- fare of the most people on the planet if there is to be peace Rather unwittingly Americans have been concurring with Gods God's laws of stewardship of late in unprecedented adventures in sharing The Marshall plan wherein Americans are rendering rendering render render- ing vast supplies to numerous nations on other continents is the worlds world's foremost example But unfortunately the American motive is fear rather than godl godliness ness We Ye are afraid of the Russians and Chinese who represent the most clamorous voices in the Wait for Me chorus So we are willing to share a little with those who might form a buffer between us and our main opponents No solution is going to come by letting the pagan materialism of or America be the American voice that grinds into the dictatorial atheistic communistic voice of Russia The Entire World Is Connected A celebrity came back from Europe the other day and the agricultural authorities found one of Europe's worst insect pests snuggled under his collar But for detection America would have fallen prey to European agricultural miseries We Ve are connected The influenza that all but paralyzed this country in 1918 was brought by some carrier from China We Ve are arc connected And trouble in the Ukraine will mean more trouble in America We Ve are connected If II we brew war we will share war If we admit Gods God's stewardship of all and share peace we westill westill westill still have haye the best chance even now to have peace Peace will vill never come at the end of a war It never has The end of a war is always the beginning of another war Peace when it comes will come before some threatened war If we war we vPS will share anyway share as we have never shared before feed fe-ed and police Russia and China too only the sharing will be in the name of Christ Today is a day when through every vehicle we ought to be pressing on the Russians the great truth Paul expressed to the Athenians We Ve should be saying to them You Russians also are of our blood You Russians also live and move and have your being in our Father God If they will not listen as Paul reminded the Athenians of their poets who had voiced his sentiments sentiments senti senti- ments so we should remind the Russians of their poets notably Tolstoi who said The uThe only significance of life consists in helping helping help help- ing to establish the kingdom of God You see God has allies s even among among the Russians We Ve Are Ready to Share Are You YouVe We Ve should be saying to the Russians in the United Nations in every diplomatic exchange We Ve are not afraid of rOUe Jou You cannot put up any better fight against us than Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and Japan and Italy did We Ve are ready to share are you youVe We Ve are ready to think of self-defense self in terms of the international international organization of social goods not in terms of violence are you We Ve know we cannot feed and police the whole world can you Before you answer think of Tito We Ve know there will be no riches left for anyone if we fight dont don't you know it too I IVe We Ve know we are all Gods God's offspring and we would like to live ive His way sharing with the men of the earth Lets Let's fulfill Gods God's plan lan together |