THE LIFE WE SEEK

The Life We Seek ~ 463 ~ her fracture. It was HOPE. When hope was gone, recovery failed. This made a deep impression upon me, since it was accompanied by the conviction that this would never have been the outcome if this lady had known the God of hope the way I, as an earnest Christian knew Him.” From this incident, we can form an idea of the deeprooted malaise of modern society. Although science and technology are progressing by leaps and bounds and are contributing magnificently to the physical well being of man, there is a disastrously negative aspect to them in that they deny the existence of God. In fact, the entire educational system has been geared to ridding people’s minds of all thoughts of their Maker. While man’s body receives more and more nourishment, his soul is gradually being killed. Materially, he is pampered; spiritually, he is starved. The result of this is only too tragically evident in episodes such as the one related above. At the very moment that the surgeons had successfully joined together broken bones, the heart had broken for a