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Show SOMETHING THAT IS EITIRELY OVERLOOKED And It Happens To Be The Most Important In all oratory of the politicians, in all the planning, in all the attempts to solve national and world problems, there is one thing-, and it is the most important; that is being overlooked. The following words should be hammered deep into the heads of them all : "UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT SOCIETY'S SICKNESS IS MORAL AND THAT THE REMEDY IS SPIRITUAL, DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING; YOU WILL BUT ADD TO THE CONFUSION." Destiny. The weakness of the nations, this once' included, "has a root cause. Its root is definitely spiritual. Something is withering in the soul of our people. The signs of spiritual debility are apparent everywhere. The truth of the matter is that in this country our religion has almost gone. When that goes, everything we prize as American goes with it, for everything that we prize as American is a spiritual product. I do not speak of Christianity; I speak of a much lower level religion. Christianity disappears long before its outer husk does. We never have been a Christian nation, but at times we have been largely a religious nation; a nation of people who reverenced a supreme being, who were conscious of moral law, who had faith in the lightness of right and feared the wrongness of wrong a people who believed that justice and morality were essential to social stability. . . . Name a movement of controlling proportions among us today that even pretends to a basis in righteous principle. . . . What has occurred is a moral, estrangement. We are now too ignorant to read the past, too busy to live in the present and too blind to see the f uture.l-Howard Rant |