The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
Today
AND
Tomorrow
- By -
FRANK PARKER
S T &C X 3 RID G E

TROUBLES -. Everywhere
One of the very few things up
on which practically everybody
agrees is that there is something
wrong with the world. That is
nothing new in human history.
We are more keenly aware of the
worlds troubles today than our
fathers were because we read
and hear about them. Interna-
tional strife, internal struggles in
every land for control of govern
mentS, economic warfare of a
hundred kinds, social insecurity,
class hatreds, general disrespect
for law and order-make your
own list of the worlds troubles.
Up to that point you'll find
most folks agreeing with you.
The disagreement begins when
you start discussing the causes of
the unhappy state of human af-
fairs, and the appropriate RENE
dies. Not more than a handful of
people ever agree on what has
got us into the present mess, and
what ought to be done about it.
Countless remedies are propos-
ed, all different. My old family
doctor said, when I asked him
how to cure a cold: eff anybody
knew that you wouldn't see so
many cold remedies advertised. F"
Most of the plans and programs
being put forth to cure the
worlds ills are the same sort Of
quackery.
HOPE Cropping
Not in long lifetime have I
seen so many different kinds of
people in every walk Of life so
keenly concerned about the I'M
happy state of human affairs.
Never have seen and heard of
so many earnest, well-intentioned
persons and groups devoting
their lives and their fortunes to
efforts to bring humanity back to
peace-peace between nations,
peace between warning elements
inside of national boundaries.
That much of this energy is
misdirected, that the remedies
proposed cannot all be effective,
and that some of these attempts
to reconcile peoples with peoples
and to solve the unsolved riddle
of social justice are likely to have
the contrary effect, does not les
sen my hope of a better world
than we have ever lived in. Ra-
Their, the very fact that great
multitudes are seeking the an
swer gives me renewed faith that
out of all the grouping will come
the discovery of the way.
MORALS Crux
l read and hear a great and
growing volume of expressions
by thinking men, leaders in poll
tical and industrial fields, leaders
and thinkers among workers, phi
losophers, students of social pro-
blems and ordinary people like
you and me, all saying the same
thing in different words. The
thing they say is that the present
crisis is a moral crisis, and that
it can be solved only by applica-
ton of moral principles of the
worlds problems.
Disagreement begins when peo-
pie ask for the definition OF
morals" A course of conduct or
line of action which seems entire
ly moral to one man may appear
to others quite immoral. Yet the
essentials of morality have been
preached and taught for thous-
ands of years by great spiritual
leaders, all of whom the world
respects and one of whom the
Christian world believes to have
been the very incarnation OF
God.
The reason why the we'll
known and easily grasped princi-
Piles of morality have never been
applied in human affairs is that
they are hard medicine for men
to take who are ambitious fol-
power, for glory, for wealth, fol
for worldly security or for lux
ury. They delude themselves by
believing that such things ais:
essential to human happiness.
REARMAMENT MIRA
have been lately in California
observing at first hand, both
from without and from within
the largest and most widespread
movement in modern times tt
bring the essential principles Of
Christian morality back as a liv'
ing, vital force in human affairs
Moral Re-Armament - MIR A
as it's followers abbreviate its
a world wide effort to change the
world by changing the lives, anc
therefore the outlook, of the PEG,