Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-30
A SICK WORLD.

year ago alluring promises were held before
our eyes of better world just ahead sort of po-
ltical millennium was promised us. Cooperation
and good will We're to take the place of national
hostues and a reign of universal peace was to be
ushered in.
A political panacea for all our worldls was
proposed. But Our political doctors fell into sad
disagreement to the efficacy of the remedy The
proper proportion of mutual confidence, alert
watchfulness etc, which ought to be mixed in the
potion to be given the patient, was the cause of
acrimonious debate among the doctors with the re-
suit that no remedy all has been administered to
a sick world.
To what extent relief would come from any con-
coction or whether, indeed. it would not kill the
patient caused reams of public and priceless paper
to be wasted
Still the people puzzled and new and more
oppressive problems of living have resulted,
The real truth is that the remedy for the de-
plorabe world conditions is spiritual instead OF po-
litca We use the word Spiritual" in the Roose-
vetian sense. While men hate each other and fea"
each other and unconsconably grab from each other
the hope of any radical relief is absent.
Such mental and spiritual attitudes can not be
cured or materially bettered in a month or year
Indeed it will be a work well done if it is notceably
bettered in ten years. Human nature is human ma
ture Men will hate and fear and grab as they have
always done, as long a materiastic philosophy
leads men to rely solely upon material methods
of permanent relief. Human nature is the out
growth of undue stress being laid upon material
means of betterment. Relief must be spiritual.
Light and air are most essential physical
possessions. Cut off from them, we would give, al
most instantly our all for their restoration. Yet
we take them as entirely for granted.
ANY man who thinks reads will at once know
that without churches there would have been no
schools no hospitals, ethical development A
community without churches is an unsafe place in
which to live and an impossible place in which to
raise family. This. in spite of the manifest short
comings of the church. Yet take the churches
for granted. ..-
Governmental stability found its basis in the re-
lipious teachings of the church, Business found lts
essential basis of integrity in the same place. The
solution of the present world unrest is ethical.
Through the church must be found the way from
hate to goodwill from fear to confidence from
grab" to fairness
This costs money, for no solution can be found
short of universal education, mental and spiritual
Foreign as we'll as domestic work must be done.
The non-church going element in our communities
is the direct beneficiary of all this work Fairness
demands that it lend its financial support. Better
than police force churches and Sunday
schools Better than army are our educational
forces Better than leagues treaties is the spirit
of the Master. The former may be practically
necessary; the latter will finally bring the era of
peace and goodwill This is no sermon 1t is
- hard headed economic and political sense.
- The Interchurch movement represents the Ell
ficien business-like, aggressive organization to ac-
complish these things among Protestans 1t is good
= business to support it.