The past decade has been a most exciting one. In spite of the tensions and uncertainties of this period something profoundly meaningful is taking place. Old systems of exploitation and oppression are passing away; new systems of justice and equality are being born. In a real sense this is a great time to be alive. Therefore, I am not yet discourage

I have lived these last few years with the conviction that unearned suffering is redemptive. There are some who still find the cross a stumbling block, others consider it foolishness, but I am more convinced than ever before that it is the power of God unto social and individual salvation. So like the Apostle Paul I can now humbly, yet proudly, say

But the nonviolent approach does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation and Gandhi furnished the method.

them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a spiritually moribund religion.

religion that professes a concern for the souls of men and is not equally concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle

Moreover, he came perilously close to identifying the Kingdom of God with a particular social and economic system, a temptation to which the church must never surrender.

“cult of inevitable progress,”

existential situation is estranged from his essential nature.