Recently, The Christian Science Monitor published a series of articles entitled, "The World We Want." Contributors were men and women distinguished by intellectual and perceptive ability, technical knowledge, and wide practical experience. It was interesting to note the emphasis which each placed on moral values, or the Christian doctrine of brotherly love.
These are stringent times. Platitudes have no place. The highest idealism falls short unless translated into acts which men can see. Fair words must be accompanied by deeds. Christian Scientists are challenged daily to live the precepts they study, pray about, and believe.
What is going on? The battle of Armageddon, the conflict between the flesh and Spirit. Carnality, with its self-will, blind selfishness, greed, is a dark threat to the liberty of mankind. Millions of young men have dropped cherished ambitions overnight and accepted the challenge. Of the many who have enlisted in various branches of the service, surely few have gone because of a zest for adventure, probably fewer still from the motive of revenge. Intelligently and soberly an imperative duty has been accepted, which will enable them to do the needful things with dispatch and a minimum of waste motion. They have willingly mortgaged their so-called futures in order to save the only kind of government in which men can abide in peace— democracy.
