Even the president's political enemies applauded that statement, and all those who long for the time when nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks will find consolation in the fact that the president understands the world's great need. The burden of taxation to support the vast armaments of war bears down with increasing weight on the backs of the common people who find it increasingly hard to obtain the necessities of life. One of mankind's greatest failures is the inability to understand that which is of supreme importance and to avoid the trifles. The vast majority places the greatest emphasis on the needs of the body while neglecting the spirit. The struggles for food, clothing and education, take precedence over the development of the moral and spiritual life.
Life is more than meat, and the body than raiment.
To seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, is to place the emphasis where it rightfully belongs. Placing the wrong emphasis is a grievous fault even on the part of those who are supposed to minister to the souls of men. I am simply amazed and greatly depressed at the great amount of space used in religious papers on matters that will never build up the souls of men in the most holy faith. We argue, debate and dispute about some of the most trivial matters of religion, like the Pharisees of old, who tithed mint, anise and cummin while omitting the weightier matter of the law. The farmer who spent a day gathering up loose used nails while the weeds devoured his crop, was not as foolish as the preacher who wastes precious days and weeks on obscure points of theology that have little to do with the vital matters of salvation and a closer walk with God.