Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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EDITORIAL THREES OR ONES? It ' s a mad world, my masters! becomes more obvious daily. Some parents and, possibly, some students see it. What are we going to do about it? As it is we who make the world, can there be something wrong with us? Whence came we, what are we, whither do we go? This three-fold question recalls the trinity of body, mind and spirit which is each of us. How is modern life educating this trinity? Growing frequency of failure by church, school and home is all too evident. J. Edgar Hoover places most blame on the last. Thus: Parents are forgetting their God-given and patriotic obligations to the little ones. . . . Selfishness is the keynote of the day and materialism the inspiration for living. God in many instances is not accepted in the home and concepts of morality have been relegated to the junk heap. . . . The key to life itself is God. He is man ' s first need — his main goal. Destroy religion and chaos will result. Is he right? Were Shakespeare, Livingstone, Washington, Lincoln, countless millions of Christians mere misguided people? Is there any truth in the Bible? As we must worship something, is it God or go ld? Duty or dollars? In these days, is there any value to us of tradition? Surely, we must recognize that life on this planet is a battle — a proving ground for our material, moral and spiritual development. It can be nothing else — apart from the menace of extinction by poison or bomb — until each of us has done his utmost to bring his moral and spiritual development abreast of his purely worldly interests. Material development has resulted in atomic discovery. What unimaginable wonders lie ahead of the scientists of the mind and spirit? Their work alone can control peace and war. Each of us can share in this work. Sir Alexander Cadogan, at this year ' s McGill convocation, said that the struggle between Communism and anti-Communism could be won only by capturing men ' s minds . Foch has told us that wars are won by the things of the spirit . If they are right, what chance has a collection of divided nations, merely professing democracy and belief in God, against a forcibly united dictatorship, inspired by a godless doctrine which has much of the force of religion and has its producing missionaries everywhere? We should have seen long ago that one cannot have real democracy without real Christianity. Chasing dollars is needful but, unless kept in right rela- tionship to the things of the spirit , it is stark paganism. Exodus 32 tells what happens. There has been a shooting war. We are learning what a cold war may mean. We of the democracies do not yet widely recognize that we are being out-fought in the spiritual war. The task of parent, pedagogue and parson must be realized anew before the little ones of