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Show :(v' Spiritual Outlook Necessary rkt To cope With Changing World lice,) Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (EDITOR'S NOTE: The Rever- .nd Norman Vincent Peale, D.D.. I. oSSm of Marble Collegiate ft' ChSS! Fith Ave.. New York P; City.) tow As pointed out in a previous Df article, a great future is ahead Hi Sr us. But one must know how to proceed in such a day and age. if The wisest of all Books gives us eW that information. It Pictures St. 1 ) Shn meditating upon the affairs k I of his time. One day he had a Jiil vision that changed his thinking S He said, "I saw a new heaven and i ? new earth:"-bythathe meant U he had a new insight, a new idea to'l of what God was trying to do. m One has an entirely new outlook ' on life when one gets a vision of sr what God is trying to do in this !d world. I think He is doing some-V some-V thing wonderful right now. For example, wc now have the ! t) atomic bomb. Are we thinkin? 1 properly of this new found force? We refer to it as something sinister sinis-ter as a diabolical instrument of i death, as an instrument of in-dj-. humanity, and it is all these J things. It is unfortunate that the 0 first use of atomic energy had to r be the destruction of two cities, I but even so, we need to think positively about atomic force. "I ?aw a new heaven," that is fe to say Almighty God wants to do ri something with this earth, and k finally has become convinced i that mankind is ready to peer into in-to a crack which He is opening in - the universe and in which He has revealed the greatest power yet s1 known to man. He has more confidence con-fidence in man than man has in himself. He is saying to man, "Here is atomic force, take it, use it to make a better world." 1 So man took it, and the first 4 thing he did with it was to blast a two cities out of existence. Bui (man now holds this marvelous power in his hand; power that God gave him because God, first 3! of all, put it into the universe and !then gave man the brains and the ability to find it. And God cracked crack-ed open the universe a little bit so man could get it. Every other ,v, power that God has given us may be misused sex, alcohol, the f motor car, the airplane, money destructively, but each may also be used for the advancement of mankind. Wc did not turn away from the automobile because it was ten times faster than the horse. We used it we had to use it. God gave it to us. God also has given us this atomic force which we must and will use to build this great future which is before us. Of course, man must change in order to be able to handle atomic force. There are some tremendous tremen-dous ideas in the mind of God which man is discovering. He is saying to humanity, "You have fought and devestated the earth, now rebuild it and make of it something glorious." "I saw a new heaven and a new earth." From the personal standpoint, nothing in 1946 or in all the future fu-ture can defeat you if you get a new viewpoint on the way God will help you if you will but call on him. An industrialist went to a famous fam-ous doctor for an examination. The physician said, "There is nothing wrong with you that can hot be cured by a new outlook on life. To get a sure cure, get a spiritual outlook." "What do you mean?" asked the industrialist in surprise. "Just what I say," replied the doctor. "Get some real religion into your thinking and I believe you will be all right." Having paid plenty for this advice and wishing to get his money's worth ,the industrialist went to a minister. He got his thinking changed. He saw a new heaven, that is, he saw what God could do for him, and so he. saw a new earth the world for him was changed. It is remarkable how this principle operates. It is so exact as to constitute, I believe, be-lieve, not only a spiritual but a scientific formula. Get God into you.r thoughts and a great future is ahead for you like St. John, you will be able to say, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth." |