Will mankind’s tragic tale ever end?
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Editor,
Would anyone seriously deny that the history of the human race, from earliest records onwards, is stranger and sadder than the most pathetic fiction ever fabricated? Is there no end to the tragic tale of suffering and war, murder and death, evil sowing and evil reaping? Will the sinister lines never be untangled? A troubled poet asks, “Shall crime bring crime for ever, strength aiding still the strong? Is it your will, oh Father, that man should toil for wrong?”
And then with pathetic bravery, the poet answers his own question, “No! say the mountains; No! the skies; man’s clouded sun shall brightly rise, and songs ascend instead of sighs.”
But is the poet’s sanguine deduction anything more than desperate optimism? Do the mountains and the skies guarantee any such eventual utopia? I don’t believe so. The one and only real pledge of an ultimate golden solution is the fact of Jesus Christ, his birth into our race; his championing of our cause; his repulsing of our foe; his substitutionary atonement; his resurrection from death with Satan, the grave, and Hades subdued beneath him; and crowningly, the promise of his second coming to our earth as global administrator. That is heaven’s sure guarantee of Earth’s bright tomorrow. “Unto us a child is born; unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulders.” (Isaiah 9:6a). Already he sits on the throne of universal sovereignty in heaven. His kingdom rules over all. The mystery of permitted evil on earth has thereby assumed a new aspect and has almost run its course. Satan will finally be banished, and the now rebellious territory shall rest in warless, deathless, and tearless, tranquility beneath his sovereign authority. Until then, we join our thoughts and prayers with those who suffer the agony of incomprehensible personal loss.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
