SundayDec 22, 2024
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When the Russians succeeded in putting the first satellite into orbit, one of their scientists is reported to have said, 'Now that we have conquered space, our next conquest is that of man.' An American anthropologist, Leslie A. White, of the University of Michigan, is reported in a Detroit newspaper as saying, 'A cultural system which can launch earth satellites can dispense with Gods entirely.' This is a great day for the false scientist—they who have left God out of their education. Of these the Apostle Paul even in his day warned his weakening convert, Timothy, to beware of: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. (I Timothy 6 :20.)
I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.
The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
The real scientist will realize that TRUTH has many avenues of approach to its many phases, and that spiritual truths are to be sought after even more determinedly than others which have to do with this life and earth only. It must be recognized when they
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life.... he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.
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