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At a time like this, I am sure many of you may wonder also what we, as individuals, can do to help save civilisation. When someone asked George Bernard Shaw, during World War II, what ho was doing to save civilisation, he replied, “I am the civilisation you aPe trying to save." Thus, with this bit of humor, he emphasised the point that, to trying to preserve our way of life, it is short-sighted to overlook the things that constitute that way of life.
Let us ask ourselves: what are we trying to save? If several hundred intelligent persons prepared lists of the moat important attributes of our American wap of life, perhaps no two of them would he alike. Nevertheless, I am sure that, on every list, in one form or another, three fundamental rights would be included: (1) the right to believe in God and to shape our lives in accordance (with the teachings of Christ; f2) the right to practice individual initiative — to start from where we are and advance as far as our abilities will permit us; and (3) the right to have the best education we can get—to prepare ourselves to meet potential leadership responsibilities. These priceless rights carry with them a two-fold obligation for each of us—the obligation to try to make it possible for others to share these rights, and to help others appreciate them.
Events, headlined in our newspapers, and broadcast by radio and television in most dramatic fashion, reveal how woefully we have failed to meet this obligation;. Sometimes we wonder if our Nation has become morally ill and degenerate. However, in our hearts, each of us should feel to some degree responsible for the lack of Christian ethics on the part of many of our American citizens.
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