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Show WORLD GROPING IN DARKNESS By REV. DR. AUGUSTUS STEIMLE, New York (Lutheran). Schools draw children away from the home and encourage parents to relinquish responsibility. Educators of a generation ago would look aghast at the vast changes in the school system of today. The school doctor, the school nurse, the teachers, and the athletic coach, all com-bined, com-bined, manage to take the child out of the home for almost ten hours eve"ry day, bringing the'm out of the range of parental responsibilities. A parallel between the situation in the school and that prevalent in the church is the tendency of the' people today to offer their check to the Lord and leave it to somebody who gets up earlier than they, to 'take care of their children's religion. Just as we are spectators today in sports, deriving our pleasure from a game, vicariously, so are we taking our religion from the sidelines. The world is restless, there is great suffering, unemployment, selfishness and an overwhelming lack of peace. All these are natural symptoms of the disease of those who have lost Jesus. Our youth's restlessness, the League of Nations, the World court, all are endeavors to find him. . The tons of literature of today characterize life as a succession of questionable and immoral experiences. In the movies and the theater, and even in sports, we find life pulsing, every one is looking for a czar who is able to clean them up. We are living in a day in which Jesus himself said the temple would" be widened. We have lost the faith of our fathers, and the world is groping in darkness trying to find him. |