And surely this is the question that every thinking person must be asking tonight. Here we are in this last quarter of the twentieth century and our world is in terrible trouble. If you read a newspaper or listen to news bulletins, you cannot but be aware of the fact that the world is in terrible trouble and there are mounting problems. That is exactly what David said - that's what those people were saying when they were praying in the early church. Now this is a very interesting thing in the history of the human race.
Mankind is always restless.
That is why the Bible in one of its favourite analogies compares the human race to the sea. And there are times - there have been epochs in the history of mankind when there has been such peace and quiet that some people thought that we really had arrived at Utopia. You will read in your secular history books about the Pax Romana. The last century was referred to, and is still referred to, as the Pax Britannica. Now that is always permanently the condition of mankind.