There are many kinds of...
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There are many kinds of crosses in our world. All crosses hurt, many kill.
On April 17, 1953, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, later to become President, spoke about what he called the "cross of iron." Looking at what he saw to be an alarming, escalating arms race (if only he could see us now), he observed that we are moving toward:
... a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system to achieve true abundance and happiness ...
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity, hanging from a cross of iron.
Many believe that the cross of iron -- military armaments -- will be our salvation. Or other crosses just as tough to bear. Will they?
There are many kinds of crosses in our world. All crosses hurt. Many kill. Only the cross of Jesus Christ offers life and salvation.
"Lift high the cross...!"
On April 17, 1953, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, later to become President, spoke about what he called the "cross of iron." Looking at what he saw to be an alarming, escalating arms race (if only he could see us now), he observed that we are moving toward:
... a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system to achieve true abundance and happiness ...
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity, hanging from a cross of iron.
Many believe that the cross of iron -- military armaments -- will be our salvation. Or other crosses just as tough to bear. Will they?
There are many kinds of crosses in our world. All crosses hurt. Many kill. Only the cross of Jesus Christ offers life and salvation.
"Lift high the cross...!"
