The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-07

tContlnueo from rage one1
DESTROYED. Liberty will ee sup
planted with tyranny and oppres-
sion. In short. we are about TO
revert to another Dark Age
Tar be It from me to mini
mixe the dangers ahead. To shut
our eyes and cry All is well is
both foolish and dangerous. No
one in his right mind will deny
the fact those blessings. which we
n Americans have just taken for
granted, are threatened today.
All Have Problems
The conflict In Europe Is
death struggle between two ide-
clogies. IL In . war 10 the death
between totalitsrianism and de-
mocrscy. Its outcome will deter
mine whether man shall live by
dictatorship OF by will OF the
majority.
Whether we will be forced TO
participate fully In this death
struggle 10 . question that will be
answered In those silent weeks
and months before us.
Tn addition 10 our national
Issues. which must be met and
solved. are the many personal
problems which the DAYS TO come
will foist upon IN. What shall we
eat. what snail we drink and
wherewithal shall we he clothed
are Issues We must face.
Wicked VIII Prosper
Some Of US will BE- called upon
h hear heavy and grievous bur-
dens. Misforrunes, adversities.
sickness. suffering and sorrow will
strike with Needless abandon.
Death will exact its heavy toll.
Friends will forsake us. and some
Of those we trusted will prove
false.
Wicked men win prosper,
though 1t be at the price of OPP
preston and blood. We shall see
again that To those who have, TO
them shall be given; but to those
who have not. from them shall
be taken away even that which
they have not
IF history repeats itself. there
will be some who lack while others
have more than enough. Social in
justice and inequality will be with
w still. Some will weep while
others rejoice, only to find that
later the tables will be reversed.
Hence, II matters little what
the future holds in store, the pros
pect 10 not too bright. Sorrow
and JOY will walk In hand.
TO the natural man life rs he
knows it 10 an enigma. He cannot
understand II because II does not
make sense. He therefore In in
elined TO become an agnostie and
a fatalist. He does not accept the
Christians God because His just
Ice Ia not mans. nor His way
mans way. God 10 not according
TO his specifications and hence he
will have none of Him.
Consequently. he walks his
lonely way into the night and has
no hope Of the brightness beyond.
He reasons like the seer OF old,
Man that 10 born of q woman IL
Of q few days and full Of trouble,
he cometh like a flower and il
soon cut down: he fleeth also as
. shadow and continueth not. In
the midst of life we are In death
Becomes New Man
when the grace of God takes
ths natural man and makes him
. child Of God, he becomes 4 new
man. He II born again. His en-
tire outlook upon life IL changed.
Like st. Paul. he exclaims, Be
hold. all things have become new
Now life makes sense. True. there
are many things that canno, be
explained, much leas understood
hut faith tells him God rules and
therefore all Ia well.
Faith never demands that II
must see in order TO believe. How
ever, faith promises sight to all
who win believe. To doubling
Thomas. Jesus said. Now thou
believeth because thou hast seen:
basssed II he that believeth, though
he hath not seen We believe
many thinEs the human mind can