Article March 18, 1961 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Lester O. Schriver

Lester O. Schriver in the December, 1960, issue of Life Association News Washington, District of Columbia

If our program of education is to survive it must be built on a spiritual foundation.... I don't believe you can grow character in soil which is not fertilized with religion. Not dogma, but a philosophic theism which acknowledges the world as a cosmos, not a chaos....

Sir Isaac Newton...once said, "To the mathematician the universe is a great thought." And Huxley once asked, "Is the universe a mud pie made by two blind children—matter and force?" Any normal man with an awareness of the processes of life, must answer, "Of course not —the universe is plan, and design, and purpose."...

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