MIF 1:4 (July-Aug 1969)
By The Editor
“Our Western Civilization is sunk!” exclaimed one of the lawyers from our town. We had been comparing present moral conditions with those of Rome just before the collapse of that World Empire.
A great American leader has also said, so it is rumoured, “Our own moral laxity will soon destroy us, even if the Communists don’t.”
The family is that basic unit of society; the home, the corner stone of the community. If these basic units deteriorate, what hope is there for the Western Nations, or for the world at large? None whatever!
Quotations from the Press at various sources confirm these statements, and indicate the extent of this deterioration in many many homes.
“Home is the empty house to which junior returns from school; the place where the only sound he hears is the echo of his own voice when he cries in vain for his mommie.”
Marital breakdown is the break for which some persons wait, but what kind of a break is it? broken vows, broken laws, broken hearts, broken homes, broken and fragmented minds, and broken and split personalities.
Perhaps the article “Coffin Nails” by Dr. Charles Taylor will alert Christians to some of the seductive moral hazards of today. The Lord said concerning Abraham, “I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord” (Gen. 18:19).
Today when all around us there is a sense of decadence and even hopelessness, with deep convictions relative to the power of the Spirit of God and the Word of God, we ought to order our households in such a manner as to adorn the doctrine of God in all things.
The articles on Marriage Counselling that are appearing in Ministry in Focus ought to help in properly and spiritually arranging the Christian home. The article in this number by Derek Park is quite unusual.
W. Fraser Naismith again directs our attention to Christ Incomparable, the only hope for this lost world. He reigns supreme is the substance of the article by Ernest Barker, and Andrew Borland in his second article on the Second Advent of Christ fixes our attention on a glorious future. Ross Rainey assures us of the remarkable wealth that we inherit in Christ, and Earl Miller once more predicates those principles by which we ought to live as we await the coming of our Heavenly Bridegroom.