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Show Lust of Power Great Peril That Faces Stability ' of the American Nation By REV. DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK, New York. MANY sins come out of weakness, but all the great tragedies of history have come front the Mates who could say, "Knouest thou not that I have power?" Look at our nation today. Where is the real peril of the republic? To be sure, we are facing a dangerous situation from the kind of crime that is bred in city slums, that rises in gangs of youth, often degenerate, who commit murder and spend most of their lives intermittently in prison. But the republic will not ultimately go to pieces over that situation. There are, however, men of ability they might even hold positions in the President's cabinet, they might even rise to the highest places in America's industrial life where, at the top, the competition is terrific and sieves out all but the ablest. "They are not feeble-minded, but like Pilate in the magnificent administrative ad-ministrative system of Rome, have risen to the top because strong, and such men. in the last few years, defying the courts, despising the govern-I govern-I ment, contempting the people, have presented to the world one of the most devastating spectacles of political corruption in the history of government. gov-ernment. And as they propose to get away with it you can hear the echo of the old words, "Knowest thou not that we have power?" There are two kinds of disaster one caused by destitution and weakness, the other by misused wealth and power. And sometimes it is hard to say which is worse. But there is always hope in power. Think of the opportunity some of you business men have in an industrial situation situa-tion whose crucial difficulties come not from feebleness but from tremendous tremen-dous strength ; to stand in your influential place and say, "I have power to release Christ." Think of the opportunity that we as a nation have in working .for peace against war. That goal never can be reached without us. God further to their favorable end the present program of multilateral multilat-eral treaties outlawing war for we as a nation have power to release Christ. |