The Moral Vision
The Making and Breaking of History
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seemed to the Americans as if Japan would lie in
ruins for several decades to come. Yet this was not
to be: now, just forty years after the event, Japan
stands at the pinnacle of her economic strength, the
leading industrial power in the world.
This goes to show that it is not man who fashions
his own history; in truth, it is God who fashions
human history in accordance with His own will. It
is not people or events who control history, it is
God. History may take place before our eyes, in the
material world, but the course it takes is determined
from the super-natural world which lies beyond our
vision and perception.
Those who have been written off as spent forces can
take solace from this fact of history. Experience
shows that sparks erupt from volcanoes that have
lain inactive for years. In this world the very
annihilation and destruction of something means
that it is ready to arise and take its place as a new
power on earth; a force which is spent turns into a
living force.
One should never lose hope because of the dismal
course events appear to be taking. When the pages
