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Editor,
“Good will toward men.”
I remember hearing the world news on Dec. 7, 1941 of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I was a third grade student, fascinated by the story that came from our RCA (Radio Corporation of America) radio. The Imperial Navy of the Japanese Empire had just destroyed our Pacific fleet and hundreds of American sailors had lost their lives in sunken ships. The United States declared war on Japan, World War II began. Here in the lower 48 we were preparing to celebrate Merry Christmas, which at that time was all about “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men” (Luke 2:14 KJV).
I didn’t give much thought back then to “good will toward men”, but I do now. I continually ask myself, where has all the “good will” gone? I’ve lived more than eight decades and it seems to me that evil, wickedness, perversion of morality, hatred toward neighbors, murder, greed, you name it, it’s all getting worse. Now, after San Bernardino, colleague wonders about colleague, neighbors suspiciously wonder about neighbors. Can anyone be trusted? Can’t somebody do something to stop this senseless destruction of human society? Why doesn’t God intervene? People said the same thing in the ‘40s.
God did intervene (Luke 2:9-12). Two thousand years ago God came into our world in the person of Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:19-20). History reveals the moral quagmire into which civilization had fallen two thousand years ago. Only the God of heaven knows what our corrupt race would have been by now had not that intervention taken place in Bethlehem’s stable. However, society refused him then (John 19:15, “Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with him! Crucify him!”). Our generation is no different than those that have gone before us.
Is there any good news anymore? Oh yes, by all means. The good news is called the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
