The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-24

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themselves. Take the great inven-
tons and achievements Of man and
the changes they have wrought.
They have brought the possibility
Of greater and more abundant life.
They have also brought the posi-
bility Of greater suffering and evil
/ in the world. Why hag alcohol for 80
many years plagued and ruined life
when only recently We are begin
ming 10 recognize its creative
forces? Alcohol is a boon to hu-
man life. II is also destructive of
all that is decent and fine.
But. TO the great forces that are
changing the world today. Force
itself is invisible. But the evidences
are there. Take China. For hun
dreds and hundreds of years she
has lain dormant. inactive. asleep.
But there is an awakening in
China. Regardless Of the war.
which IL but minor incident.
China will never go back TO its
sleepy bed. The supposedly invinc-
ible Gibraltar of India. the caste
system, Is crumbling under the
avalanche of a new force. The
old order ohangeth, yielding place
TO the new"
Let us recognize some Of
these forces. They are knowI-
edge, Invention, and Unrequit-
I'd Need. They cannot he held
In leash. soon they break the
bonds that would hold them.
All this Is by way of saying.
cheers up-the catacysmic changes
than have and are coming to our
world need not defeat us. In the
material world when an upheaval
comes, dirt, rock and mineral fall
back to the same substance. But
in human life, changes indicate
new moods, new tempers, new
worlds Of ideas and ideals.
Old Molds Won't DO
The great disturbances of TODAY
are but an indication that the old
molds can no longer contain the
expanding spiritual forces of God.
The world may socially. econom-
ically, politically. and religiously
blow up. But l believe and trust
that by so doing we shall have
broken bonds and found new re-
lease from old circumscribed limits
of the old life.
That is. l believe that Chris
uanity needs to be broken from
its narrow sectarianism. II needs
to become once again. Catholic,
universal, in both its outreach and
in its activity. Only thus can the
Kingdom of God be built on earth.
Those churches possessing the
power OF mutability, change, will
find themselves not lost. but a part
Of the new order of things. Those
incapable, who desire to retain
the old dogmas, rituals and meth
DDS. will pass from the scene.
But some are apt to worry be-
cause of the apparent destruction
of the things that have appeared
Of value. Some things may be lost
for a time, but not for long. And
here I bring the assuring word
Of Paul. Paul had had his life
rocked and blasted from its Sc
curity and assurances. He found
upon a great crusade, the
tide of a new order. Our light
he said, (which is but
for the moment, worketh for us a
far more exceeding and eternal
weight of Glory" The words OF
Alfred Lord Tennyson are akin to
the same thought in "Morte
D'Arthur. THE old order chang
eth. yielding place to the new, And
God fulfils himself in many ways.
lest one good custom should cor
rupt the world For so the
whole round earth is every way
bound by gold chains about the
feet of God"
New World Order
Out of the stupendous changes
Of our day, believe. will come a
new world order. As the old econ |
omy of scarcity will give place to /
new one of abundance due to |
archaeological advancement, and a
competitive order gives way to a
cooperative order. and narrow ma
honalrsm gives way to a new in
ternationalism. so new world of |
will be born for man