Human plans are not enough , • UcQ-gK$i ,JohA ^fer . ^»i <*v> 5 • - £.<2 HBZ^ HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH John CarterSmyth,CS.R TheCatholicHour HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH BY REV. JOHN CARTER SMYTH, C. S. P. Special Preacher, Paulist Motherhouse, New York City Four addresses delivered in the nationwide Catholic Hour (produced by the National Council of Catholic Men, in cooperation with the National Broadcasting Company), on December 5, 12, 19, and 26, Man’s Need of God The Return To Moral Discipline Christian Faith, The Hope of The World The Tragedy of Inhospitality List of Catholic Hour Stations List of Catholic Hour Pamphlets Page . 3 .. 9 .. 15 .. 21 .. 26 .. 27 National Council of Catholic Men 1312 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington 5, D. C. Printed and distributed by Our Sunday Visitor Huntington, Indiana I Nihil Obstat: REV. T. E. DILLON Censor Librorum Imprimatur: Hh JOHN FRANCIS NOLL, D.D. Bishop of Fort Wayne Deaeifc MAN'S NEED OF GOD * Address delivered on All of us are in some measure post-war planners: for it is one of the distinguishing traits of the hu- man species that its members strive consciously to shape for the better their own destiny. We know that when the war is ended, we shall be faced by changed conditions, and that we shall be challenged by un- precedented opportunities for the betterment of mankind. It is natu- ral therefore that men should be striving to devise ways by which that challenge can be met. In America alone there are no fewer than 137 organizations—28 of them governmental, 109 private agencies—engaged in the study of post-war problems with a view to- wards guiding the future course of the nation. There is every reason to be grateful for this foresight on the part of our leaders for there will be great need of wise human planning, if we are to control the political, social, and economic forces in the days to come. Nevertheless, it should be obvious to all of us, from our present bitter experience, that mere human plans are not enough to set the world aright. After the last war we put our trust in human ingenuity and December 5, 1941 skill to safeguard humanity against the future, and what a tragic mis- take that proved to be, ft>r without realizing it we were sowing the seeds of another and more deadly war. And if there is to be any hope that a new order can emerge from the present chaos, and a better way of life assured mankind in the fu- ture, we shall have to go much deep- er than skilled discussion and de- visement of political, social, and economic changes, however radical these may be. The primary need is that we put first things first. We need to go back to God the author of life, and to acknowledge reverently His sov- ereignty in the affairs of men. We have to recognize that which ought to be very evident to us now, that we live in a moral law-abiding uni- verse where the laws of God can- not be mocked; where men reap what they sow; and where catas- trophe attends upon guilt. This is a basic need if we are to have any hope for a regeneration of human society. There must be a reaffirm- ation by all of us of those moral laws which are part of our Chris- tian heritage, and which we re- cognize as the will of God for the 4 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH right ordering of human life. If human plans for the betterment of the race are to have any validity and substance, it will be to the ex- tent that they are inspired and sustained by those moral laws which have come to us from God through His Son Jesus Christ. As the Holy Father Pope Pius XII expresses it: “Blessed be those who realize that great work for a new and just order is not possible unless their eyes are lifted to God, keeper and ordainer of all human events, in- itial source, guardian and avenger of all justice and right.” The need for a deeper founda- tion than human plans for the re- ordering of human society also finds expression in a statement issued by eighteen Christian leaders of the United Nations, including Archbishop Downey of Liverpool: “We who issue this statement/’ they affirm, “are persuaded that the evils from which the world is suf- fering can be remedied only by a return to God the Father of all. The rivalries and strifes that do so much to ruin life, and culminate in the insensate horrors of war, spring from sources in human life too deep to be controlled by human planning. We need a vision of a world ordered according to God’s purposes and law. We need the spirit of love and repentance, hum- bly beseeching God to forgive us our past sins, and to give us the spirit of forgiveness for wrongs done ourselves.” The inadequacy of human plans to bring order to our chaotic world is recognized by others than our religious leaders. In a penetrating analysis of our present needs, Wal- ter Lippmann says of this problem : “Modern man as turned out by our secular schools and shaped by popu- lar culture is a being whose de- sires are limited only by the dif- ficulty of getting more and more satisfaction. . . . Their desires are irrational and therefore always ex- panding and forever unsatisfied. Men cannot remain civilized when they no longer discipline themselves and their children in the traditions that come to them from prophets and saints who have raised western man out of barbarism. The good life,” he concludes, “is an imita- tion of God.” Thoughtful men recognize that the only adequate gospel for a con- fused age which seeks to fight its way out of the mire is one that puts God back at the center of liv- ing. Human life, both individual and national, will be a disordered thing as long as the law of God has no command over the untamed desires of men. However, when it is shaped by a discipline that comes MAN’S NEED OF GOD 5 from God through revelation and conscience and that transcends man’s immediate appetites, man- kind can endure, and fight its way courageously out of any chaos into an ordered way of living. Without this spiritual discipline men inevit- ably face a demoralization within themselves that destroys all confi- dence and power of resolution; and it is because our secular genera- tion has refused to believe this that life has become so desperate and confused for many of us. We speak of the tragedy and horror of war, and rightly so, and it would be difficult to describe, much less exaggerate, the awfulness of our present catastrophe. Yet peace has its tragedies as well as war, and one of the greatest trage- dies of peace, whether we consider its immediate effect on the individ- ual or its ultimate effect upon so- ciety, is the loss of an active faith in God whose laws guide the destiny of men. This tragedy has come to many of our American people. Brought up in the secular tradi- tion and education of our genera- tion, too many of us have neglect- ed the true source of moral great- ness. And in the torpid hours of peace there has developed among us a rather sceptical attitude to- wards the whole matter of God and religion, so that many felt quite competent of themselves to deal with the demands of life as they lived through the secure days of peace. Only a great adversity could shatter such self-complacency. And that adversity has come to us in the form of a tragic war unmatched in cruelty and suffering in the long history of mankind. Even a vain and thoughtless man must now realize that life involves something more than blowing on one’s hands and getting on with successful business. When the earth shakes under our feet, and titanic forces of evil are let loose in the world, the secular man knows his incompetence to deal with the demands life makes upon him. He feels the need of help greater than his own strength. He begins to feel the need of God. If no other good comes out of this war with all its appalling suffering, this much at least can be said of it, that it has brought many back to God who had forgotten or neglected Him in the soft days of peace. General Arnold, Chief of Army Chaplains, said recently it was the common experience of our Chap- lains to find that “as the men ap- proached the battle front, the spirit of religion quickened in them.” And the Senior Chaplain of the Al- lied Army in Italy affirmed that there was more religion among 6 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH troops fighting there, than among civilians back home. It is not dif- ficult to understand why this is so. When men leave the security of peace and home, and stand face to face with death and the unknown, stripped of all human support, in- stinctively they turn to the dormant spiritual forces within them, and in that experience they find God, the source of life and the only hope in death. A striking example of turning Godward under stress of adversity has been told us by an army of- ficer who was cast adrift for twenty-one days, when Captain Rickenbacker made a forced land- ing in the southwest Pacific. In an article entitled Other Hands Than Mine , the author, Lieutenant James C. Whittaker, set forth his experi- ence: “For me, our terrible 21 days on the Pacific represent the great- est adventure a man can have : find- ing his God. Before that adventure I was an agnostic; an atheist, if you will. But there can be no athe- ists in rubber rafts, any more than in the foxholes of Bataan. When our Flying Fortress ran out of gas and we prepared for a crash land- ing on the sea, Second Lieutenant De Angelis, our navigator, said, ‘Do you fellows mind if I pray?’ I recall feeling irritation, then. How ashamed I was to remember that thought in the days to come!” The article goes on to relate how the author's scepticism gave way gradu- ally before the striking manifesta- tion of God's Providence that came as an answer to prayer. He writes, “On our 13th day . . . the sun was scorching hot. In midmorning a rain squall apppeared, but it pas- sed a quarter of a mile off. For the first time I found myself lead- ing the others in prayer. ‘God,' I said, ‘You know what that water meant to us. The wind has blown it away. It is in Your power to send it back again ... to us who will die without it!' There are some things,” the officer writes, “that can't be explained by natural law. The wind did not change, but the receding curtain of rain began to come slowly toward us, against the wind, as though an omnipotent hand were moving it That God-sent rain helped us endure the . . . terrible days” ahead. A second experience enlarged and confirmed Lieutenant Whittaker's faith in a Provident God. He was praying most earnestly that he might be rescued, when suddenly he sighted a distant island which he sought to reach. He writes, “Ex- hausted from three weeks of thirst, hunger and exposure, I accomplish- ed a feat that would have tried a well man.” “In the final burst to MAN’S NEED OF GOD 7 reach the reef, I was bending those aluminum oars against the waves. It was not Jim Whittaker who bent them. I didn’t have the strength to bend a pin. I was not conscious of exerting any effort; it was as though the oars worked automa- tically and my hands were merely following their motion. There were other hands than mine on those oars.” The author concludes the narrative with a thought that has come to many who have lost God for a while, and found Him again: “It was the greatest adventure a man can have.” We do not know fully why peace and prosperity so often destroy the spiritual life of a man; and why adversity and suffering restore it again. But so it is in this strange world of ours. It would seem a universal experience that the worse the world is without, the deeper we all need to go within, and it is quite all need to go within, and it is quite true to say that no one ever achieves a deep personal religious experience without a profound sense of need in an hour of adversity. This is why the story of this awful war is replete with the experiences of men who have found in its suffer- ings and horrors something greater than all else—faith in God. One’s mind instinctively goes back to an incident in the life of Christ, when two lonely disciples were wearily making their way back to Emmaus from Jerusalem. For three unforgettable years they had followed the Savior in the high hope that through Him a new and better world would dawn. Hardly had Jesus proclaimed His message and inaugurated His ministry when it ran into violent opposition. The world would have nothing to do with Him and in the end it sent Him to the Cross. Now these two disciples were going home disillu- sioned and dejected. A sense of frustration was upon them. But they were wrong. There were not two of them on the road but three. God had not abandoned them. They were not alone. Our country stands in need of many things at this time. But above all else it needs the steadying sense of God’s presence at the cen- ter of the universe if we are to make progress. Human plans are needed but they are not enough unless they are inspired by the moral laws of God and buttressed by a spiritual force which can exor- cise from the human heart its sel- fishness and greed. It is not so much knowledge we need. We are smart enough. It is faith that we need if we are to withstand despair and find sanity and worth in life in these hard days. Faith in an Infinite God who 8 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH in the end will make all things work together unto good for those who believe. Faith that history is not a muddied stream of discon- nected events, that the universe is not a fortuitous jumble of stars and planets, and that life is not a twisted mass of tangled threads that can never be wrought into a divine pattern. The moment a peo- ple ceases to possess such a faith they turn the hands of the clock back to savagery, as we today have reason to know. There have been times in the re- cent past when it was thought smart to challenge faith in the un- seen, and irreverence was deemed the mark of intellectual maturity. That day is past. It was a foolish and destructive attitude that mani- fested no brilliance but only an ir- reverence that always attends on self-suffiiciency. It was a flippant mood that could not stand the hour of conflict. Today our country stands as a citadel of law and order, of mercy and of charity, of justice and good will among men. And in the days to come it must be the center of the revival of these virtues among the nations that have lost them. We believe this is our destiny, and unless we fulfill it we shall have betrayed the hope of the world. But we cannot accomplish this manifest destiny if we ignore the spiritual forces that make a people strong and enduring. A vivid ac- tive faith in a Provident God is our first neec^ if we are to march for- ward to the accomplishment of our destiny. THE RETURN TO MORAL DISCIPLINE Address delivered on The Declaration of Independence is not of course a text book of theo- logy, yet the religious implications of this historic document are so profoundly important for all of us, that we cannot afford to overlook them at this critical time. When it came to us, more than a century and a half ago, the Declaration of Independence inaugurated our free- dom as a people; and what is a matter of deeper importance, it proclaimed a principle of govern- ment that placed religion at the center of national life. It recog- nized God as the source of those rights of man which government must respect and protect, and which the sanctity of human per- sonality demands. It was in a very real sense a Declaration of De- pendence—dependence on God as the foundation of our political, so- cial, and economic morality. Many of us, through a systematic ignoring of religion, have forgotten the spiritual character of our na- tional origin. We have forgotten our dependence on God, and through that irreverence we have suffered a serious deterioration in our morals. Now, however, we recall this glor- ious heritage more easily, as our December 12, 1943 countrymen suffer and die on far flung battlefields that the God- given right of man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness may not perish from us. We recognize this principle as the very soul of America, and since in other lands men have denied it because they first denied God, we must fight to save this soul from a new and en- compassing paganism. After all, what are the enemies we contend against? Nazism which deifies man in the race; Fascism which deifies man in the State; Shintoism which deifies man in the god-Emperor. These are the en- emies of America, but they are the enemies of God as well. Their concept of life, and man’s place in life, is not only antagonistic but fatal to our way of life, and we shall have no security until they have been vanquished. This conquest of the forces of evil we now know will be hard and costly before it issues in victory, but we have every confidence that in the end our arms will be vic- torious and the nation freed from the threat of a fatal aggression. Will that be the end of our strug- gle? Shall our way of life then be 10 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH secure? Many of us will be inclined to think so in the hour of victory. But our problem is not so simple as that. Destruction can come from within the nation as well as from without. And it is quite certain that if in the future we forget, as we have forgotten in the past, that God is the foundation of this nation and that conformity to His law is the source of our moral greatness, we shall sow the seeds of destruc- tion from within. We live in a morally ordered uni- verse, and we can no more violate its ordinances without disaster than we can ignore the laws of physical well-being and not suffer the con- sequences. And no nation can sur- vive, much less attain greatness, without the moral discipline that the law of God demands. It is therefore disturbing to note that in the multiplicity of plans and pro- posals for a reconstructed world af- ter the war, so little thought is given to the need of moral disci- pline both in the individual and the nation. The world we look forward to through the misery of war is not going to be a safe or very satisfac- tory world if it is bounded by poli- tical plans, the research laboratory, and the machine shop. The great- est multiplicity of material advan- tages will never constitute “the good life”, without which right order in society is impossible. The greatest need that faces us today is the need of moral discipline in our people. Men can endure many things but one thing they cannot endure and that is continued disorder, chaos, and anarchy. And there are only two ways in which men can achieve order in society: they can either discipline them- selves from within through the exercise of a conscience enlighten- ed by God; or they can have disci- pline imposed upon them from without. The first method makes for liberty and the working out of democracy, while the second is the way to enslavement and dictator- ship. If we be honest with ourselves, can we say moral discipline has been characteristic of our genera- tion in America? In our personal morals, in our family life, in our respect for law, in our service to the common welfare, we have not been a self-controlled generation. We have let liberty turn to license and made our passions the norm of morality. This is why we are stricken today. Whenever we had a choice to make, we chose the alter- native that required the least ef- fort at the moment. When organ- ized evil was let loose in the world, its initial victories were assured THE RETURN TO MORAL DISCIPLINE 11 by the lazy, self-indulgent material- ism, and the lackadaisical, confused complacency of our own people and of the people of the other free na- tions of the western world. This is why the defense of the western civilization crumbled for a time be- fore the onslaught of its enemies. And we know now that we cannot resist this evil force that threatens our life, nor adequately prepare for a pacified and purified world, if we continue to take, as we have taken so persistently in the past, the easy way of all things. It might be well for all of us to recall in this tragic but pregnant hour the words of the Savior, “Wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life : and few there are that find it” (Mat- thew 7: 13-14) ! These are disturb- ing words, but we cannot afford to dismiss them as a mere exhortation to a better life. They assert a uni- versal law of life with which we all have to reckon. Of course we do not like to face the implications of this stern law. We resent restraint and repression: we want to do what we feel like doing. We want to be a law unto ourselves and make our fancies and our passions the norm of our ac- tion. But that is a dead-end street that leads nowhere but to destruc- tion. Experience is teaching us all the time, and now in a very painful way, that we cannot evade a law of life by neglecting it. St. Igna- tius Loyola describes a man who attempts to ride a fiery horse with spurs but no bridle. Well, that is what many of us have been trying to do in this generation of ours, and that is why our national morality is today a sorry contrast to what it has been in the past. Then religion was recognized as the well-spring of moral greatness; and the principles of Christ were a light in which the nation walked. The American home was essentially a Christian home; and membership in the church was deemed a mark of good citizenship. No education was considered adequate that neg- lected the higher interest of the soul. The older colleges and uni- versities of the land owe their foundation to religion. This is our past; but what of the present? To- day only fifty per cent of our people are interested enough in the things of the spirit to be members of any church. Of course there is the hoary excuse that a man can be re- ligious without church membership. But if a man is not interested in prayer and worship, and in a mu- tual effort to deal with the problems 12 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH of the soul, it can be taken for granted these problems are of no great significance in his life. Our education has become profoundly secular, and many institutions that owe their origin to religion are now sources of irreligion. The most significant deterioration however is to be found in the home of today. For what happens to the home is a certain sign of what is happening in the nation. The fam- ily is the primary unit in the nation and from it issues life or death for the people—for a nation cannot en- dure without sound morality, and the teaching of morality begins in the home. The integrity of a na- tion can be measured by its respect for the home and by its habits and customs towards that which is the foundation of the home, the mar- riage contract. Judged by this standard there is every reason to be concerned about our future. The solemn contract of marriage, which under Christ is a Sacrament, and which is the found- ation and guarantee of the home, is held in such light esteem by many of us that one out of every six marriages ends in divorce. Only the pagan Japanese outdo us in contempt for so sacred an institu- tion. This is an appalling record whose full significance can be read nob in the lack of respect for the marriage contract but in the broken homes that it represents. And back of every broken home there are the broken lives of neglected children, sacrificed to the fancies and pas- sions of undisciplined parents. One major problem facing us at present is that of juvenile delin- quency. It might be better termed parental delinquency. The Chil- dren’s Bureau of the Department of Labor reports juvenile delinquency rose eighteen per cent between 1940 and 1942. And Mr. Edgar Hoover in a late statement on the growth of youthful waywardness, asserted that the arrest of young girls in the first half of 1943 had increased 64 per cent. Divorce and delinquency, both the products of undisciplined living, are breaking up homes far faster than battlefront casualties. Our great need now and in the post-war world is not so much ec- onomic adjustment as right rela- tions in the home. We need per- manent and secure homes where God-fearing parents will train their children in that moral discipline which our Christian heritage de- mands. Without moral order in our own homes we are in no position to bring moral order to the world about us. We cannot give that which we do not possess. It would be a mistake to assume that the upheaval of war is respon- 13THE RETURN TO MORAL DISCIPLINE sible for our present lack of moral This is not the first time that discipline. The war merely em- phasized a condition that has exist- ed ever since we began to exclude God and His law from our lives. The father of our country warned us against the very danger that en- compasses us: he wrote: “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that na- tional morality can prevail in ex- clusion of religious principles.” Historically it has always been true that a nation which neglects God and defies His law sows the seeds of progressive and inevitable decay. And if we are to be true to our American traditions and ful- fill the destiny that is before us, we must begin to put first things first. We must put God and His moral law back at the center of our personal and national life. We like to believe that this war is a war between a Christian and a pagan way of life. And so it is. But the issue will not be settled when the enemy is defeated. It will be set- tled only when our people again make religion a moving force in their lives; and when the ideals and principles of Christ once more inspire and guide our conduct. the world has faced the military conquest of evil men. It has hap- pened many times in the past and no doubt it will happen again in the future whenever the sins of the people cry to heaven, and God uses the pagan barbarian as the rod of His wrath. It will not do, then, for us merely to point with indignant righteousness to the evil of the enemy. That is real enough. But we shall miss one of the major les- sons -of our present sufferings un- less we are humble enough to see in our present tragedy the result of our joint guilt. We shall not per- ceive the full implication of our pains unless we realize that our undisciplined materialistic way of living has needed the rod of God’s anger that we may be turned from the broad road of destruction. It may be true that we do not know fully why God so made the world that the road to destruction is a broad one, while the path to righteousness is narrow and straight ; but this is the way He has made it, and it seems the part of wisdom to recognize this portentous fact before it is too late. Whether we like it or not, the fact remains that we do live in a moral universe where men reap what they sow and where an undisciplined and uncon- trolled life has only one ending. 14 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH We do not know what the future of this country shall be, though we pray God that it shall be a great and an enduring one. But one thing we do know and it is this: If this nation of ours should ever fail and the hopes of humanity that have been placed in it fade into disillu- sionment, it will not be through the lack of human plans and laws and regulations. There will be a multiplicity of these for we shall try every external expedient before destruction comes. If the nation falls, it will be because there will not be found among its people men and woman who through conscience have so disciplined themselves from within that they need not be disci- plined from without. It will fail because, having liberty, the people of the nation have allowed that lib- erty to degenerate into license ; and because having known God and His laws they have denied the one and have rebelled against the other, un- til once more self is god and pas- sion becomes the norm of action. The source of a self-controlled, a self-disciplined life, is now what it has always been, faith in God and the obedient acceptance of those moral laws which govern His uni- verse. If we have faith, as indeed we have, that beyond the torture of these years there is a possible world, decent and peaceable, where mankind can live that better life of which it is capable, in security from the base rule of the jungle, be assured that world will be built only by morally disciplined men and nations. The place where that kind of life can begin is within each one of us and the time is now. Whatever else we can or cannot do at this critical moment in the his- tory of the world, at least we can give it one more life that is morally disciplined to that higher life to which we are called by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. CHRISTIAN FAITH, THE HOPE OF THE WORLD Address delivered on December 19, 1943 There are few deeper needs in the world today than for men and women who will maintain an un- discouragable faith in the essential worth of living, in spite of the disillusionment and suffering we are all now going through. There can be no doubt about it, we are living through one of the most cruel and distracting and chaotic times in history; and the unpromising qualities of human nature, which this terrible war is bringing to the foreground, can very easily drive men to cynicism and despair. Some time ago, returning from Washington to New York, I oc- cupied a coach seat in the rear of two men whose vigorous conversa- tion one could not help but over- hear. Their discussion turned to the problems and difficulties they were encountering in these difficult days. One told of a son who had fought with our troops in North Africa, and who had returned home minus a leg, and so badly shocked nervously that the father feared he was a permanent invalid. The other’s tragedy was not so serious but it was serious enough, for he had witnessed a successful busi- ness go to pieces as the nation turn- ed its energies to war. It was the usual conversation one hears now- adays, but what impressed me about it was a remark made by one of the two, who, gazing pensively out of the car window, finally said, “Well, what can you expect? Human na- ture is a mess and you can’t do anything about it.” And the reply of the other was, “You said it! As a matter of fact, I think we are worse off today than ever before. There’s more hate, cruelty, and de- struction than ever.” No doubt there are many people who experience the same pessimis- tic reaction as they face the trials they are now forced to undergo, and they find themselves repeating the age old question, “Is life worth living?” It is not difficult to un- derstand this reaction even though one does not agree with it. For one thing, many of us have been brought up in what Walter Lipp- mann terms, “the secular tradition of our generation.” As a rule, these people have had no profounder con- cept of life than to harvest from each passing day some material gain, some added success in the business of living. They have felt themselves quite competent to deal 16 HUMAN PLANS A] with life as it came to them. And however shallow such a view of life may be in itself, it seemed to satisfy many of our people in the days of peace. But in the demand- ing days of war these people are finding that that concept of life is not profound enough to see them through, and their helplessness ex- presses itself in an intense pes- simism. For another thing, we have to remember that our generation has lived through a whole series of national disappointments that have not been without their effect upon Us. We entered the last war with a high purpose, thinking that it was a war to end war, only to find out in the end that we had but sown the seeds of another and more ghastly conflict. Many, too, had put their hope in a League of Na- tions which they fancied would prove a solid structure, where the peoples of the earth could meet with amity and resolve their dif- ficulties in the light of reason and by the principles of justice. But we have lived long enough to see that hope fade as millions marched to war. Then, in the decade of the twen- ties, a period of prosperity dawned upon us and we thought at long last we were on the road to a more abundant life for all the people; JE NOT ENOUGH but we saw that dream vanish when multitudes stood in bread lines. When men have lived through such disappointing experiences as these and when in that framework of failure they have had to bear the personal losses that are incident to every individual life, it is not difficult for us to see why a mood of cynicism, of dissillusionment, and of apathy, would be engendered in lives that have no deeper resources to draw upon than a spirit of self- competence. Secular education, human plan- ning, economic adjustment, in these circumstances, prove a sorry sub- stitute for dynamic, spiritual faith, which is the only thing that sees men through such hard days. With- out faith in God and without the vision and hope which the gospel of Jesus Christ gives to life, a man might well despair as he lives through these dark hours. Only a positive faith in a provident God who in the end will bring order out of chaos; only a positive faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, the way and the truth and the light of man, can give men assurance and conviction that life at its worst is not a hopeless thing; and that hu- man nature, despite the negative evidence of the present, has un- limited possibilities for develop- ment. There is nothing so certain 17 CHRISTIAN FAITH, THE as this, that Jesus, and all those who in the centuries since have caught His spirit, stand a refutation to all cynicism and de- spair. Indeed this is no time for cynicism or scepticism or mate- rialism. This certainly is no time to tell men there is no God and no eternal purpose running through life, with no goal ahead, and no sense in it. This above all times is a time for Christian faith, which enables us to see in our present hard plight a challenge and not a source of despair. The religion of Jesus Christ is never so much at home as in days like these. It be- gan with the Cross, and when we look at its history we see that it made its greatest advances and won its widest conquest over the lives of men not in prosperous hours but in chaotic days like these. In every dark and desperate hour that the world has known since Christ walk- ed this earth, His gospel has been the light in the darkness by which men have gone forward to the dawn. So is it today. God knows we have tried hard enough and long enough to do without faith in God and in His Son Jesus Christ, and to what a sorry pass that in- fidelity has brought us. Indeed faith in Jesus Christ is the only hope of the world. It is not surprising then to note the emphasis that Jesus places up- HOPE OF THE WORLD on faith. The thought runs like a refrain through every conversa- tion and every incident of His life. Without faith you can do nothing, is His constant thought, and His one anxiety was the possibility of the loss of faith. “The Son of Man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?” (Luke 18:8). How joyful He was when He came upon people that believed ! Thy faith hath made thee whole” (Mat- thew 9:22). He cried to the sick man, and to another He gave as- surance, “According to your faith, be it done unto you” ( Matthew 9:29). In the closing hours of His life when He spoke more intimately to His disciples, His thought once more turned upon the question of believing: “You believe in God, be- lieve also in me” (John 14:1) ; and at the very end He could say, ‘ these are written, that you may believe” (John 20:31). It is an astounding thing that while men recognize that faith some kind of faith—is necessary for the carrying on of almost every phase of life, they grow cautious and sceptical about the highest form of faith, supernatural faith, which rests on the authority of God and which administers to the highest life of men. Even in the prosaic world of business some kind of faith is necessary for its sur- vival. When there is faith there 18 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH is progress, and when faith fails j^ou have the inevitable panic. So too in the more intimate world of the family, faith is needed for the firm establishment of the home, and when faith goes, so does the home. In the world of science faith is a necessary principle if the scientist is to succeed in unravelling the mys- teries of nature. Brought constant- ly in contact with the miracle of creation, the true scientist finds in his scientific pursuits the genesis of a higher form of faith—faith in God the Creator of all things. This is why the great Pasteur could af- firm that his profound scientific studies had not weakened but con- firmed him in his ancient faith. It has been supposed by many that faith has been looked down upon in the world of science, but this is not true. Recently an article appeared in one of our publications entitled, I was an Atheist Until . . . , and in it the writer relates how faith in God and the invisible world had been restored to him through his study of the sciences. He writes, “Up to the time I was in a medical college I regarded my- self as an unshakable and incontro- vertible atheist, and with the brash assurance of youth, I was not at all reluctant to express my views to anyone willing to listen to me. Then one day something happened that changed my life. David Grant, a noted anatomist was dissecting a body and lecturing to our class. Suddenly he paused, turned to us and said: ‘Gentlemen, here in this human organism is a complete ref- utation of what is called atheism. No reasonable being can look upon the miraculous construction and ar- rangements of organs in this body without acknowledging that some creative power above and beyond human comprehension must have been responsible for them. It seems to me/ the anatomist continued, ‘that doctors above all others should ( be truly religious men dealing con- stantly as they do with this inex- plicable miracle. They should be humble prayerful men who recog- nize that a Supreme Power operates in human affairs/ ” Is it reasonable to suppose that as we go higher in the realm of living, and consider the profounder problems of the spirit on which the whole of life turns, we can do with- out the element of faith which is basic for right living in the lower spheres of life? Are we to live by faith in everything save religion? That is not only inconsistent, it is deeply perilous. The most destruc- tive of sins is the loss of faith. Without faith in God as our Father who shapes the destiny of men; without faith in that invisible world of the spirit from which has come the finest and best that we know 19 CHRISTIAN FAITH, THE in life; without faith in Jesus Christ as the revelation of God and the Redeemer of the race—we are literally lost. This is not preaching, this is a plain statement of what has actually happened to us. And if we are to shake off the pessimism that has come to many of us about the future, if we are to rekindle our hope in the nobler possibilities in men, we must begin to have faith in God and in His Son Jesus Christ, who is the way and the truth and the light of life. We have tried to build a lasting city with the expedients of men, and how miserably we have failed. Surely it is time to be done with failure which costs us so much. It is time that we turn with humility to the light that has never failed, and accept gladly the wisdom and grace that has come to us through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Only so shall we be able to build the kingdom of God within us, which is our peace. As we look at the world today and N see the awful catastrophe that has come to it, some may be tempt- ed to think that Christianity has failed; and to say that Christ’s way of life, beautiful and idealistic though it be, is too unworldly for this tough world of ours. How, they will ask, can you speak of love and mercy in a world of hate and HOPE OF THE WORLD cruelty? Why speak of brotherhood to a world swept by pride of race and an insane nationalism? What meaning has justice in a world where might makes right, and con- quest is to the strong? These are the natural thoughts of the secular man, but they represent a short- range vision of what is going on about us. As a matter of historic truth, might does not make right, and conquest is not to the strong. Brute force has never accomplished anything worthwhile, nor has it enduring power. Hear the judg- ment of one who ought to know, for he held the scepter of ruthless power. “Do you know,” asks Na- poleon in his hour of defeat, “what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to or- ganize anything. There are only two powers in the world, the spirit and the sword. In the long run,” he concludes, “the sword will al- ways be conquered by the spirit. And in the long run, too, it will be found that love is stronger than hate, and justice more enduring than injustice. Therefore, the world’s present tragic condition does not argue the failure of Christianity, but it ar- gues the failure of everything else except Christ’s principles and His way of life. If, after the last war, men had taken Christ’s teaching seriously, do you think we would 20 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH be where we are today ? Our present tragedy does not proclaim the fail- ure of Christ, but it does proclaim the failure that comes to the world that rejects Christ. It is the judg- ment of the moral order on a Christ- less paganism. If we miss this lesson we are blind indeed. We have tried many substitutes for Christ's principles in the building of our social life, and they have led us from one perdition to another. And unless we now build our personal and national life upon the strong foundation of His teaching we have no reason for hope in the future. We shall build upon shifting sand if Christ be not the cornerstone of our edifice. It wrould seem that our deepest need today is for a return to our Christian heritage, with a vivid and dynamic faith in Christ as the way and the truth and the light for our people. Only in Him and through Him can dispirited men find a living hope in the highest possibilities of man, and in the worth of living. And if many of us are now confused and desperate about the future, it is because we are unwilling to make the adven- ture of faith in Christ Jesus. There is hope even in the most desperate circumstances for the man who be- lieves, but there is no hope for the man who does not believe, and his deepest pessimism is justified. The Gospel says of one experience of the Savior, “He wrought not many miracles there, because of their un- belief" (Matthew 13:58). And St. John speaks of the light shining “in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it" (John 1:5). In this critical hour, our deepest prayer for our country is not for light, for we have light; our fer- vent prayer is for faith in the hearts of our people, that the light may not shine in vain. THE TRAGEDY OF INHOSPITALITY Address delivered on December 26, 1943 In the long history of mankind, room for Him in the inn; but later there is no event so momentous for on there was no room for His sav- the hope and peace of men as ing truth in the minds of His peo- that which we commemorate at pie, and no room in their souls this Christmastide—the birth of for His cleansing spirit. The initial Jesus Christ, the Son of God made inhospitality that marked Christ’s man. For over nineteen hundred advent in the world was to follow years men of good will everywhere Him throughout the whole of His have recalled and repeated with un- ministry. It denied Him the ser- wearied regularity the simple story vice He sought to render, it hard- of the Nativity, and yet its fresh- ened the hearts He longed to ness and charm are as compelling change, and in the end it brought now as when it was first uttered. Him to Calvary’s Cross. “He came Indeed it may be doubted if men unto his own, and his own received anywhere have ever recalled the him not” (John 1:11). birth of the Prince of Peace with Does not Christ still meet with profounder emotion or a more eager that experience in a world which hope than they do today, when the needs so desperately His truth and clouds of a desperate and encircling grace? His Saviorhood was for all war shadow the earth. men for all time, but it encounters It is an old story and so familiar today the same inhospitality that a one that it need not be repeated, it found in the beginning. St. John However, there is one incident in expressed a condemnation of ^ his the narrative that deserves our con- generation when he wrote : “the sideration, for it seems to be an light shineth in darkness, and the epitome of the whole world’s re- darkness did not comprehend it” action to its Savior. That incident (John 1:5). That judgment is true is summed up in St. Luke’s saying of our own generation as well, of Christ’s birth at Bethlehem: Today from how many confused “There was no room for them in and suffering lives Christ hears the the inn” (Luke 2:7). cry, “No room!” And indeed the Was not that single circumstance world’s present stubborn refusal a forecast of all Christ’s subsequent to accept Him is the greater sin career? At His birth there was no for have not the centuries been 22 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH witness to His Saviorhood when men have made room for Him? If at Bethlehem they had known who He was that came knocking at the door of the inn, some at least would have made way for Him. They closed the door to Jesus because they did not know who He was. We have not the excuse of their ignorance. We know the Christ. Most of us have come from Chris- tian homes where we have learned of Him from childhood, and where His spirit has made beautiful the lives we knew and loved the best. For almost two thousand years his- tory has been witness to His power ; and the record of His three short years of active ministry and His continuing ministry in His Church have done more to regenerate man- kind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and the exhortations, of moralists. About Him our culture our literature, and our philosophy have centered. Take out of our lives all that Christ has given us — the hymns we sing, the prayers we utter, and the worship that uplifts us—and we should be poor indeed. Negatively too we have learned impressively of Christ and His Saviorhood from the tragedy that has stalked the lives of individuals and nations that have rejected His truth and departed from His spirit. When, then, we say to Christ as so many of us are now saying to Him, “No room!”, it is not so much be- cause we do not know Him as be- cause our poverty-stricken, earth- bound spirits cannot entertain so spiritual a presence nor venture so high a hope. The full measure of the tragedy of our inhospitality to Christ is not the rejection of the life-giving principles He has revealed for the salvation of men; it is that it de- nies the true character of Jesus as the Son of God—true God and true Man. The rejection of the Incarnation of the Word is the full measure of the tragedy of our in- hospitality to the Christ, and when we cry “No room!” to Him as He comes knocking at the door, we cry, in truth “No room!” to God. In the great words of St. Paul: “Christ Jesus who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but emptied himself, taking the form of a ser- vant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. He humbled himself, becoming obe- dient unto death, even to the death of the cross. For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names: that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth : And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the 23THE TRAGEDY 01 glory of God the Father” (Phil - ippians 2:5-11). This, then, is the tragedy of to- day, that when men shut out Christ, they shut out God Himself. It is not merely the rejection of “the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14 :6) ; it is a rejection of Emmanuel—God with us. This is why the birth of Christ at Bethle- hem is the most momentous event in the history of the human race. This is why we cannot think of it simply as something that happened long ago and which has been left behind as a remote incident in his- tory. The Incarnation is a living and ever present reality: “Jesus Christ, yesterday and today; and the same forever” (Hebrews 13:8). This is the secret of the undy- ing life of the religion of Jesus Christ. This is the reason it has ultimately triumphed over every assault of persecution, and why nothing has been able to arrest its influence. It destroyed the pagan- ism of the ancient world and it will destroy the newer paganism that our own time has spawned. It over- threw empires that were built on the broken lives of men, and it will continue to tear down kingdoms that a newer barbarism fashions by ruthless force. ' Its influence in the social life of man has been endless and is immeasurable. It has produced a distinct and world- ’ INHOSPITALITY wide civilization that has taught us a love of humanity for which we now fight a new enslavement. Without doubt the key to the mystery of the power and undying life of the religion of Jesus Christ is the mystery of the Incarnation. That is why those who do not ac- cept Christ’s claim to divinity find this historical figure a perpetual torment. Here is Jesus Christ, the greatest personage in history, and the founder of the most perfect religious system known to man. Here is one who not only ‘was the most perfect man who ever lived, but who by the power and attrac- tiveness of His personality has through the centuries won the love of innumerable hearts. Yet this per- fect sinless man—even by the testi- mony of His enemies—constantly asserted that He was divine. In the most formal manner and in the plainest terms Jesus Christ declares Himself to be God, not merely a son of God as some claim, but God in the strictest sense of the word, possessed of the divine nature and attributes. His asser- tion was clearly understood by friends of Jesus as well as by His enemies, by the learned and the simple, by the magistrates and by the people. See Him standing be- fore the highest tribunal of the land ! Solemnly the high priest puts the question: “I adjure thee by the 24 HUMAN PLANS ARE NOT ENOUGH living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the son of God.” The answer was to be decisive for life or death. All ambiguity or sub- terfuge would not only be a crime against conscience, but stupendous folly as well. What is the answer of Jesus? “Thou hast said it.” And in confirmation He adds: “Here- after you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven.” His judges well understood His answer, and the high priest rending his gar- ments cries out : “He hath blas- phemed . . . Behold now you have heard the blasphemy: What think you?” The answer of the Council is categoric: “He is guilty of death” (Matthew 26 : 63-66) . Christ most certainly claimed to be God and He sealed that af- firmation by His death. Either He was what He claimed to be or He was a most vicious man in making that claim. The moral integrity of Jesus is however beyond question; and yet, unless His claim to be God is true, the greatest of all reputa- tions and the most perfect of all religions had their origin in fraud of the lowest description. The ex- perienced and logical mind rebels against such a conclusion. A mere man and an unworthy one should never have been able to make him- self so imperishable a reputation, and to work so gigantic a revolution for good in human affairs. Faith alone supplies the key of this enig- ma which without faith must re- main inscrutable: The faith that Jesus Christ is very God! This is the faith that St. Peter confessed, the centurion affirmed, and the doubting Thomas proclaimed. On the rock of the divinity of Christ the whole edifice of Christianity is built, and generation upon genera- tion, century after century comes adoring and confessing: “Jesus, thou art the Son of the living God.” With only one life here on earth to live, how profoundly important it is that we find the answer to the problem posed for us by the birth of Jesus Christ. Not to have known Him is the greatest of pov- erties; to have known of Him and to have missed His divinity—which alone explains His life and His work—is the greatest of tragedies. Bethlehem is not a dead historic incident. Christ still comes to the inn of men’s souls ; and what great things can come to those who make room for Him! St. Peter felt so unworthy of the Master whose di- vinity he confessed that at first he cried, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord” (Luke 5:8), but in the end he made room for Jesus, and by that welcome not only he but all the world has been changed. And St, Paul, hurrying THE TRAGEDY OF INHOSPITALITY 25 with the haste of hate along the Da- mascus road, gives hospitality to the Christ who calls to him, and by that graciousness all the world has become Paul's debtor. All through the centuries, since He came among men, innumerable souls have experienced the magi- cal change Christ can work in hu- man life when men make room for Him. Not only the great and holy have felt the touch of this power, but the simple and humble as well have known the radiance #f His peace. Yes, even in these hard days, then, there is hope for us, if, when Christ comes, we make room for Him. As it is with individuals, so is it with nations. Christ is the Sav- ior of the individual soul, but He is Savior of the nation as well. And today when even the unreligious are discovering that the devil and his work are real, and we sense the need of an internal world of au- thority to substitute for the exter- nal world that is collapsing about us, what strength will come to a nation when it makes room in its life for Jesus and accepts Him as God and Savior! We are moving swiftly into situations in economic and international relationships so unprecedented that, unless the peo- ples of the earth give hospitality to the truth that is in Christ, the future is dark indeed. The Father- hood of God, the brotherhood of man, the unselfish and disciplined life, the spirit of love and mercy, the blessedness of peace—these gos- pel truths are fundamental for a permanently well-ordered society. There was no room for Christ in the nations after the last war : and what a price we are paying for that inhospitality! The world then put its hope in realistic schemes and plans and alliances that were un- touched by the spirit of Christ ; and how brief and brittle a substitute they proved to be! Will history re- peat itself after this ghastly con- flict? It will indeed if there is no room for Christ and His truth when men write the peace. If once more unbelieving and unspiritual men turn to human wisdom and human expediency with which to shape the destinies of the world, we shall fall again from perdition to perdition. At this holy time, can we utter a more needed prayer for our nation than this, that we may by God's grace have faith and wisdom to make room for Christ ; that we may accept Him as our Savior and, guided by His principles and ani- mated by His spirit, we may walk forward in the paths of peace, and share with Him in the redemption of the world. 86 CATHOLIC HOUR STATIONS In 38 States, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii Alabama Mobile * WALA 1410 kc Arizona Phoenix Tucson Yuma KTAR KVOA KYUM 620 kc 1290 kc 1240 kc Arkansas Little Rock KARK* 920 kc California Fresno Los Angeles San Francisco KMJ KFI KPO 580 kc 640 kc 680 kc Colorado Denver KOA 850 kc District of Columbia Washington WRC 980 kc Florida Jacksonville Miami Pensacola Tampa • WJAX 930 kc WIOD 610 kc WCOA 1370 kc WFLA 970-620 kc Georgia Atlanta Savannah WSB WSAV 750 kc 1340 kc Idaho Boise KIDO 1380 kc Illinois Chicago WMAQ 670 kc Indiana Fort Wayne Terre Haute — WGL WBOW 1450 kc 1230 kc Kansas Wichita KANS 1240 kc Kentucky Louisville WAVE* 970 kc Louisiana New Orleans Shreveport ...WSMB KTBS 1350 kc 1480 kc Maine Augusta ...WRDO 1400 kc Maryland Baltimore ....WBAL 1090 kc Massachusetts Boston : Springfield WBZ ....WBZA 1030 kc 1030 kc Michigan Detroit Saginaw ....WWJ* ,.„WSAM 950 kc 1400 kc Minnesota Duluth-Superior Hibbing - Mankato Rochester — — Virginia WFBC ..._WMFG KYSM KROC „..WHLB 1320 kc 1300 kc 1230 kc 1340 kc 1400 kc Mississippi Jackson WJDX 1300 kc Missouri Kansas City Springfield —-—— Saint Louis — - WDAF KGBX KSD* 610 kc 1260 kc 550 kc Montana Billings Bozeman Butte Helena KGHL KRBM KGIR KPFA 790 kc 1450 kc 1370 kc 1240 kc 86 CATHOLIC HOUR STATIONS In 38 States, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii Nebraska New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington Wisconsin Hawaii WOW 590 kc KOB 1030 kc WBEN 930 kc Kipui York WEAF 660 kc ^rhpnortndv ............ 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