... Unless Redeemed

In the midst of crisis, Harry Truman wrote a little homily to 20,000 fellow Baptists meeting in Cleveland. "To one and all," wrote the President, "I would give this warning: the nations of the world--our own included, with its unprecedented wealth and unlimited natural resources--cannot survive materially unless redeemed spiritually.

"Sadly we reflect upon an enormous retrogression in individual liberty and a denial of all human rights behind an impenetrable Iron Curtain in the satellite states where love--either of God or of man--is proscribed . . . It is for us, in these days of doubt and despair, to bear true and valiant -witness to the faith of our fathers--the faith delivered to the saints and transmitted to us through long generations of Christian forebears.

"We must face the problem in a spirit of steadfastness and humility, remembering the admonition of the ancient King of Israel: 'Let no man that putteth on his armor boast as he that taketh it off' ... The way ahead is long . . ."

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