st.lo, brest, omaha beach, antietam, bull-run, missionary ridge, anzio, tarawa, agincourt, new georgia, iwo jima, chateau thierry, belleau woods, pork chop hill, khe sanh, stalingrad, tobruk, chalons, el brega, st. vith, verdun, remagen, hastings, dunkirk, carthage, chickamauga, bouganville, bastogne, cherbourg, eniwetok, kwajalein, wake island, cassino, lexington, and concord. here are bloody monuments to man's refusal to hear what the word of god has to say about the world we live in and the coming world. here is a valley of dry bones stretching across 5000 years of history, on seven continents. this is man "facing the future bravely" ever confident that that we need "faith in each other and the future" and that "the only thing to fear is fear itself". but what you actually have are tombstones, crosses, mass graves, dirt shoveled in -hurriedly, unburied booxes and no boxes; and bodies torn into so many pieces that a vacuum cleaner could not gather them. therer lie educated men, scientific men, artistic men, crude men, unlettered men, briliiant men, wicked men, brave men, stupid men, old men, young men, tall men, short men, frightened men, brown, yellow, red, black, white, ande every one in between. all of them have one thing in common: THEY ARE DEAD. they died for what men talk about and write about. what men talk and write about is how to govern themselves, how to govern others, and how to keep from being governed. would God almighty miss the opportunity to speak a few words on ththat subject, seeing that He made the men who are interested in it, and met them in judge ment on a thousand battlefields? hardly. man is going about seeking to establish "peace on earth" without the Prince of peace-Jesus Christ. consider when david wrote psalm 2. "god is not at all in their thoughts". that pretty well describes the greater portion of mankind today. also, he wrote "He who sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, He shall have them in derision." that about sums it up as far as i'm concerned. i donot speak of these things lightly, however, as i have seen war in all of it's "glory" and know personally of the pain and suffering it brings. look around people. look to The Book. does this adequately describe the times in which we are living?----Luke 21: 7-36......"men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth"....?
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