The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-06
The Greater. Victory

The triumph which will be bought for us
by the blood of brave men given in battle is
not the end. It is the beginning. It is the
beginning Of the Second Chance of Twentieth
Century Man to determine whether in enough
places there are enough faith and goodwill to
build world that is worthy of such courage
and worth such sacrifice.
If what we make is no better than touched
up reproduction Of what we have had, then
the sons of today's fighting men will be called,
tomorrow, to reap a greater whirlwind. Our
faith and works will have been weighed in
the balance and found wanting.
We want to do better than that. We want
world that is put together to make sense
the decent, orderly, fair and forward-moving
sense that will spare us another cataclysm
end undergrad, with more than words, our
asnirations for ourselves, our children and
mankind.
That hope is no nations monopoly. No other
force abroad among men is so widely and
so deeply unifying.
To build on that, governments are taking
thought for the morrow with expert, exhaus-
tive ana SlODdl p1dI1l1IlS 11SVcl USAoAC S4NoAASN
in history.
To build on that, the Young Mems Christian
Association, believing the physical world can
not be reclaimed unless the moral world is
renewed, has developed in Sc nations men
of that kind of Christian character which,
having survived the war, will provide the most
enduring foundation on which to build better
world In this, its year Of Centennial celebra-
ton, the T. M. c. A. therefore rededicates it.
self-its resources of body, mind and spirit
to the indispensable work Of equipping the
boys and young men of the United States and
IS other nations with the spiritual conviction,
moral courage, and social vision essential to
and sufficient for the future.
If that work is not done well, the best that
economists, diplomats, and statesmen can do
will not be good enough.
That, for a hundred years. has been the
work Of the Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton. At the end of century, the Y. M. c. A.
has grown, as a movement, far beyond any
physical resemblance to t h e small London
room in which it began. But its basic busl-
ness is the same.
The worlds youth are its raw material.
Christian characters actively at work to Chris
tianize society are its finished product.
For a hundred years, the worlds step-by.
step advance into the beginnings Of more
Christian world has, increasingly, been led ir
every nation by men whom the Y M. c. a. S
youth became
The war has not shaken those Christian lead
ers. The peace will multiply the need fol
their kind of leadership The Y. M. c. A. was
founded to produce that kind Of leadership
It moves into it's second hundred years t.
multiply it.
Proud of its material preparation and con
fident of its spiritual resources, the Young
Mems Christian Association calls into this en-
terprise those in all lands who believe:
| That more is wrong with the world thar
material dislocation
That more is required for the world thar
external ministerings;
| That mankinds hope for the world can be
fulfilled;
That such fulfillment must proceed, not from
the top down or the outside in, but from thu
hearts Of men whose fortnight faith in Goo
compels them to engage in the business O
Of God as that likeness is revealed in ths
person and plans Of Christ.
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