God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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universe. Now if there is such a God, his
relationship with mankind ought to be in evidence.
But as far as the present world is concerned, we
have to concede that this relationship is not in any
way apparent. Our leaders may boast of apostasy
and still remain leaders while servants of the divine
cause are debased and derided and their activities
even declared illegal. We do not then experience
any thunderbolts from heaven, or any other sign of
God’s displeasure. There are people who openly
ridicule religion, uttering such inanities as “We
went to the moon on a rocket, but we didn’t find
God on the Way!” No bolt of lightning strikes them
down. Innumerable institutions work for the
propagation of their materialistic ideologies and
they are aided and eulogised by the high and the
low at home and abroad, no effort being spared to
ensure the success of their mission. In stark contrast
to this, those who preach the simple, noble message
of God and religion have abuse heaped upon them
and are dubbed reactionaries and revivalists by
contemporary scholars. They are fortunate if the
worst they have to suffer is social ostracism. In what
way does God show His ire? Nations rise and fall;
revolutions come and go like thunderstorms and
