God Arises
The Life We Seek
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her fracture. It was HOPE. When hope was
gone, recovery failed.
This made a deep impression upon me, since
it was accompanied by the conviction that this
would never have been the outcome if this
lady had known the God of hope the way I, as
an earnest Christian knew Him.”
From this incident, we can form an idea of the deep-
rooted malaise of modern society. Although science
and technology are progressing by leaps and
bounds and are contributing magnificently to the
physical well being of man, there is a disastrously
negative aspect to them in that they deny the
existence of God. In fact, the entire educational
system has been geared to ridding people’s minds
of all thoughts of their Maker. While man’s body
receives more and more nourishment, his soul is
gradually being killed. Materially, he is pampered;
spiritually, he is starved.
The result of this is only too tragically evident in
episodes such as the one related above. At the very
moment that the surgeons had successfully joined
together broken bones, the heart had broken for a
