Christians in a World at War

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Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHRISTIANS IN A WORLD AT WAR BY EDWYN BEVAN STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT PRESS 58 BLOOMJSBURY STREET, LONDON, W. C. i Fmt published May 1940 Distributed in Canada by our exclusive agents, The Macmillan Company o/ Canada Ltd, 70 Bond Street, Toronto PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY NORTHUMBERLAND PRESS LIMITED GATESHEAD ON TYNE I inscribe this book to the memory of one who was prominent among the leaders of the Student Christian Movement in a generation now grown old, and who, when still young, was struck by a German bullet in the night of May n, 1915., while trying to answer a wounded man's cry for help } LESLIE JOHNSTON my friend, ever-living with God. And I said, This is my infirmity, That the right hand of the Most High should change ! Thy way is in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps are not known. PSALM LXXVU. 10, 19 Jehovah speaks; When I find the set time, I will judge uprightly. Though the earth and all its inhabitants be dissolved, I hold up the pillars of it PSALM LXXV. 2, 3 I look for the Resurrection of the dead, and the Life of the World to come. NICENE CREED CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE UNREALIZED HOPE . . . II H. TWENTY CENTURIES OF HISTORY . . 26 m. IRAN AND ISRAEL . .35 IV. WELL-DOING AND WELL-BEING . . JjS V. THE END OF HISTORY . . - . 93 VI. THE FAMILIAR MIRACLE . . .114 VII. LEFT-WING CHRISTIANITY . . .124 VEL PACIFISM . . . . - 553 IX. WHAT OUGHT WE TO DO? ., 163 CHAPTER I THE UNREALIZED HOPE WHEN the quiet process of things is brought to a violent interruption, a second time in our generation, by a great war, it is not only the immediate prob lems which weigh upon the minds of men. They ask whether theworld process as a whole into which they are launched at birth has any meaning or pur pose or goal, when it allows the occurrence of these shattering catastrophes that confound high-built hopes and show a vast power of destruction granted to the evil will. The event of to-day has its signifi cance from its coming at this moment of a world process, from all the past that led up to it, from all the possibilities of the future. We have that past and future in mind, when we gaze at this conflict of world powers which marks the opening of the nine teen hundred and fortieth year of Grace. In this little volume an attempt is made to see the conflict in its setting, so far as that is constituted by the obstinate hope which has characterized, throughout these nineteen centuries, the view taken in the Christian Church of earthly events. An attempt because to the matter of these pages the term. essay, so often used of occasional papers, might be applied in the most literal sense. Nineteen hundred years ago a little body of men were gathered somewhere in the land we know as Palestine. They looked up at the sky and spoke, as if to Some One who was up there beyond the blue ii 12 CHRISTIANS IN A WORLD AT WAR expanse. They called Him Father and they asked that His Kingdom might come and His will might be done on earth, just as it was done in that other world up there out of sight. This world, as they saw it around them, was a hard, oppressive world. -* The nation to which they belonged had been chosen, they believed, by God from among all nations to know more than others of His character and purpose and to be a light to the Gentiles. And now it was to those other nations that the kingdom, the power andthe glory belonged. Their armies carried their idolatrous standards wherever they would through the land of Israel. Their proconsuls and procurators issued the orders which Israel had to obey. Israel was a subject people under the yoke of the rulers of this world. And in all the lands, near and far, as far as their knowledge reached over the face of the earth, the scattered members of the holy people were subject to the yoke; Gentile emperors and kings bore rule over them. And yet they believed that He who was there above the sky, He before whom all nations we

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Pages: 192

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Release: March 28, 2007

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