Arthur B. Langlie Governor, State of Washington in an article in The Bremerton Sun, Washington

My answer to any young person looking for the key to success would be this: real happiness is to be found in the spot where you are needed.

Never before has a country and a world needed so much. Never before has youth had such opportunities. America needs more than anything else young men and women who believe in God, who think straight and stand straight and live straight. That is the kind of living that will make the difference between hope and despair for our land.... When we have young men and women who are fortified with clear, unspoiled minds and with faith in the guidance of God, we can look for a future filled with promise and a new era where all men can find happiness through service and love.

Philip Reichert, M. D., in an article in the Christian Herald New York, Now York

We are living in an age which we may well call the "Age of the Arrogance of Man." In a single lifetime man has conquered the air, girdled the globe with words, sent music through stone and steel. He has conquered the elements, caused rain to fall at his command, and probed into the atom. He has traveled faster than sound.... There is little of nature that man does not feel that he will soon control. If there were ever a time when man might well be arrogant about his mastery of the world, the natural world, this would be that time.

But also it is the time when in that very arrogance of the mastery of things we have turned from the mastery of self. A whole section of the world is pledged to materialism as a political creed. Some of us even here are attracted by the idea of power, instead of by the power of love. Some of us think of the security of material things, not realizing that this can be only material security.

But we now know as laboratory truth that peace of mind is more than a state of the mind alone. It is reflected in the very chemistry of the body....

It is vain to seek peace of mind, as so many misguided people do, in a medicine bottle, a potion, a powder, or a pill. These things numb the mind. The anesthesia is brutal, and it is fleeting. It passes and leaves the body trembling with reaction. Serenity of spirit is not achieved that easily and it is not enough to dismiss it by saving that there are some people who can never achieve it. Every person who makes the effort can find his particular road and achieve the spiritual security that would make the potions, the pills, the artificial sedatives, and soporifics unnecessary....

Each man must seek and find and hold something that will give him spiritual security. For each person this will mean a different thing. One will find it in his work; another one will find it in love; a third may find it in a charitable enterprise, or in politics, or in a hobby. By far the greatest percentage of people find spiritual security in the church, in religion, and in prayer.

One thing is certain. Spiritual security is not found in material things. It is never found in the things that one acquires. It will always be found in that which one does, and most important, in that which one gives.

The one thing that is new about all this is the fact that we need no longer take it as a poet's dream. We in this age who have made a shibboleth of science and believe only what is found in a laboratory and what is captured in a test tube, can now believe that the spiritual values of life are real. They are as real as anything that you can see or touch or hold. This I know and this I honestly believe. This is my faith as a doctor.

Rev. A. L. Roth in a sermonette in the West Side News Cincinnati, Ohio

There's an allegorical character, made unforgettable by John Bunyan in his famous "Pilgrim's Progress," named Mr. Facing-both-ways. He was of broad and hospitable mind, one of his characteristic expressions being, "There's much to be said on both sides." He often found it conveniently possible to say "yes" to both sides of a proposition. The easy thing about his position was that he never had to commit himself to consequences for firm convictions held....

It's that easy, tepid, in-between position that is under condemnation in the Biblical words,... "I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art ... neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth" (Rev. 3:15,16)....

It shouldn't be hard to understand Christ's [Jesus'] dislike for and impatience with religious lukewarmness. All he ever did ... he did with all his heart.... If anyone would be an approved follower of his, he must bring to an immediate end all indifference and halfheartedness. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength" [Mark 12:30]. These are his terms.