Article February 26, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from Henry Wilder Foote, Herbert W. Prince

[Rev. Henry Wilder Foote in The Christian Register]

We need to build in a larger faith in God. Man's marvelous increase in control over the forces of nature in the course of the last century, his unprecedented accumulation of wealth, has bred in us all a pagan belief in the importance of material possessions, a confidence that our security was to be found in the power which our hands could wield, a faith that wealth and comfort and freedom from irksome cares were our highest good.

It takes, perhaps, a stupendous catastrophe like this war to shatter those idols, to shake men into the realization that honor is more than life; that willingness to endure suffering is better than broken faith; that it is better to be just and true than to command the markets of the world; that the spirit of Christ is more lovely and admirable than the hammer of Thor; that the things which are seen are temporal, while the things which are unseen are eternal. The world which has awakened to that realization will be a more deeply religious world, more sensitive to the life of the spirit,—a world of greater faith, of greater generosity, of nobler ideals. And it will turn to its hard tasks of reconstruction upheld by the knowledge that it must build again, not by might, nor by power, but by the spirit of the Lord God.

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