Article December 14, 1940 Issue

The world today is in travail

Dr. Frank F. Bunker, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,

Washington Post

From Letters, Substantially as Published

The world today is in travail. Titanic forces have been unleashed, and they are converting it into an arena of pitiless conflict. Seemingly the cherished things of Christian culture are hanging precariously in the balance. Even the standards by which generations have lived, and which were thought to have been permanently established—standards in behavior, in morals, in economics, in finance, and, indeed, in every department of human activity—have been challenged. In this cataclysmic upheaval many have been torn from their moorings and are adrift.

Seeking for comfort and guidance, men are turning, as never before, to a study of the lives and teachings of the great spiritual leaders of ancient Bible times. And they are finding that common to all of them was the conviction that they walked with God, and that it was the sense of the nearness of God which sustained and guided them in the crises that arose in their lives.

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