Article August 22, 1977 Issue

World Affairs: What You Can Do

DONALD R. LANE

In many directions we look today we are confronted with evidence of ungoverned thinking. Countries torn by internal strife, fiscal instability, food and energy shortages, corporate and governmental scandals, crime—these come easily to thought. Is there hope for such a world?

We may find encouragement in words voiced by Christ Jesus to his disciples. He said: "Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." He refers to betrayals, hatred, false prophets, and a weak sense of love that cannot stand when tested. And then he says, "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."^{Matt. 24:6, 7, 13;}

If Jesus foresaw and foretold many of the problems faced by the world today, need we be startled by them? Instead, shall we not view them as part of the process by which error destroys itself? As long as all goes smoothly, the tendency of mankind is to drift along with the status quo. When things become almost unbearable, there is often a reaching out to a greater power. The obstinate apathy of earth must be broken; self-satisfied material thinking must be shocked into awakening from its dream. We must turn from the material to the spiritual, from the human to the divine.

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