Article December 22, 1973 Issue

SPIRITUALIZING THOUGHT

through recognizing the place of Christ Jesus

JOSEPH GRAHAM HARRISON

This age is marked by what might at first seem to be a strange paradox. Despite today's insistence upon democracy, individuality, and self-expression, there is an increasingly insistent demand for leadership, guidance, and a type of inspired authority. The news media are more and more critical when public officials fail to provide such guidance.

Far from showing a weakening of the human moral and intellectual fiber, this desire for more active leadership in right directions is proof that mankind is feeling a divine propulsion toward higher concepts of thinking and acting. Such an advance in men's desires bears out the divine promise expressed in the Bible: "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh .... And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."^{ Ezek. 36:26, 27;}

Perhaps nowhere is this quickened desire for a higher sense of leadership more strikingly shown than in the greatly increased interest expressed by youth in the life, teachings, and works of Christ Jesus. Even when we strip away the emotionalism that has grown up around the current "Jesus movement," we find a solid core of new respect for the example set by the greatest and most inspired individual who ever graced this earth. After nearly two thousand years he still meets in matchless degree men's yearning for a purpose in life lifted above and beyond mundane ambition.

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