Article January 29, 1977 Issue

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MICHAEL G. OWEN

What warm memories arise with thoughts of family and home! Yet pride of family and pride of race—in an exclusive sense—have presented perhaps the most serious obstacle to real unity and peace among communities and nations, because they are based on mistaken views of man's origin.

This tendency may well have prompted Paul, in his stirring address delivered from Mars' Hill to the men of Athens, to focus attention on the need for an understanding of God as the only creator, and of man's relationship to Him. God, he said, "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth," and quoting one of their own poets, he added, "For we are also his offspring."^{Acts 1 7:26,28;}

The frictions in society and the deep divisions between races still persist; they emphasize more urgently than ever the need on the part of each individual to find a direct and intimate relationship with God as the only Father and cause. The assumption that man is material and himself a creator has been a major stumbling block in mankind's search for peace and true identity and has resulted in frustration and strife, as well as the fragmentation of humanity into a multiplicity of ethnic and racial groups.

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