Editor’s Note from August 22, 1969

From a cottage porch overlooking Lake Winnepesaukee, some five hundred miles from Washington, the world seems peaceful and the problems that torture mankind are far removed. But the sun-drenched morning is deceptive. Men are still dying in Biafra, the Near East, and Viet Nam; Russians, disillusioned by a Communism that promises material plenty at the expense of human freedom, continue to defect to the West; Mr. Nixon has circled the globe in an effort to end the war in Viet Nam and to establish bridges with Soviet satellite nations; the stock market has plunged and the bears are pommeling the bulls; inflation continues to erode savings, push up wages and prices, and create distress. The astronauts have returned from the moon in what some have called man’s greatest feat in history. But is it?

We still divide history into B.C. and A.D. The incarnation of Jesus Christ, the cross of Calvary, and the empty tomb tell men everywhere and for all time what history’s greatest event is. But isn’t even this simply prelude? Is not history’s greatest event before us?—an event that will occur not in outer space but right here on earth, where history began. Jesus Christ is coming again in power and great glory to end history. This is to be the last scene in the drama of redemption, when the paradise we lost in Adam is restored in Jesus Christ. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!

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