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God's people, says Jeremiah, have scattered and strayed. But the Lord "will lead them back" and "make them walk ... in a straight path." (31:9) So it has always been. Every generation has strayed from the "straight path" of the Lord. But, in every time and place, a faithful remnant has responded to the Lord's voice and been led back to his path.
A news story that appeared in the August 17, 1981, edition of the New York Post is a parable of the prophet's message. The story told of a Yonkers church ravaged by an electrical fire. Everything was destroyed -- except, miraculously, the Bible, which was found with edges burnt and pages wet on the reading stand near the altar. The headline blared "Miracle of the Bible." The sub-headline said "The Good Book is a survivor as fire destroys a church." God's truth has always survived! In every generation, moral renewal has begun when a faithful remnant has responded to the summons to return to God's truth as contained in the pages of Holy Scripture. Not everyone agrees with the particular positions of the Moral Majority. Indeed, many deeply moral and spiritual persons are turned off by the self-righteous attitudes so often articulated by exponents of Moral Majority. But credit must be given Moral Majority for summoning us anew to examine major moral issues in the light of the Scripture. An attorney, who describes himself as "on the left," made these thought provoking observations on the editorial page of the Sunday (8/23/81) New York Times:
The Moral Majority uses the Bible to justify increasing nuclear weapons arsenals, ignoring the poor, the sick and the elderly, opposing equal rights for women and wasting public lands and resources. We on the left who disagree seldom refer to the Bible or speak of the morality of our cause. We cannot, however, create a just society while allowing a minority to claim virtue, family, religion and the Judeo-Christian tradition as their own.
-- Campbell
God's people, says Jeremiah, have scattered and strayed. But the Lord "will lead them back" and "make them walk ... in a straight path." (31:9) So it has always been. Every generation has strayed from the "straight path" of the Lord. But, in every time and place, a faithful remnant has responded to the Lord's voice and been led back to his path.
A news story that appeared in the August 17, 1981, edition of the New York Post is a parable of the prophet's message. The story told of a Yonkers church ravaged by an electrical fire. Everything was destroyed -- except, miraculously, the Bible, which was found with edges burnt and pages wet on the reading stand near the altar. The headline blared "Miracle of the Bible." The sub-headline said "The Good Book is a survivor as fire destroys a church." God's truth has always survived! In every generation, moral renewal has begun when a faithful remnant has responded to the summons to return to God's truth as contained in the pages of Holy Scripture. Not everyone agrees with the particular positions of the Moral Majority. Indeed, many deeply moral and spiritual persons are turned off by the self-righteous attitudes so often articulated by exponents of Moral Majority. But credit must be given Moral Majority for summoning us anew to examine major moral issues in the light of the Scripture. An attorney, who describes himself as "on the left," made these thought provoking observations on the editorial page of the Sunday (8/23/81) New York Times:
The Moral Majority uses the Bible to justify increasing nuclear weapons arsenals, ignoring the poor, the sick and the elderly, opposing equal rights for women and wasting public lands and resources. We on the left who disagree seldom refer to the Bible or speak of the morality of our cause. We cannot, however, create a just society while allowing a minority to claim virtue, family, religion and the Judeo-Christian tradition as their own.
-- Campbell
