The Spoken Word – September 29, 1940
It matters not by what names we choose to call our vices and our virtues — they remain what they are and what they always have been before men and in the sight of God. In the mod- ern scheme of things if we choose to call licentiousness by the flattering title of “broad-mindedness”, it nevertheless continues to be licentiousness.
If we decide to apply the name of liberalism to despotism and if we call bondage freedom, it matters little, because despotism and bondage continue to be what they are and what they always have been. If our generation is pleased to call virtue and honesty old-fashioned relics of a gone and forgotten day, that does not make of virtue and honesty anything different from what they have always been, and it does not lesson our need for them.
If there be some in our Generation who wish to consider faith in a living God and the certainty of His Judgment an outworn superstition, again the fact is not altered that God lives, and that His judgments are sure, and that all man will one day be brought before Him to render an account of themselves, — and in this we are mindful of the language of Jesus the Christ, stronger than we would use, but perhaps not as strong as present need would justify – “Then he said unto them, 0 fools, … slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” (Luke 24,.25) — and there might be added — all that the generations of your fathers have proved. In short, the modern disposition to relabel and reclassify and re-evaluate the very foundations upon which civilization stands, in no way changes the facts of life or the laws of living.
September 29, 1940
Broadcast Number 0,580