With Prayer, One Can Go

Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-tung.... These Men Were Animated By The Love Of Brother And This We Must Believe Though Their Ends Meant The Seizure Of Power, And The Building Of Mighty Armies, The Compulsion Of Concentration Camps, The Forced Labor And Torture And Killing Of Tens Of Thousands, Even Millions.

The Legal Battle Against Segregation Is Won, But The Community Battle Goes On.

There Is Plenty To Do, For Each One Of Us, Working On Our Own Hearts, Changing Our Own Attitudes, In Our Own Neighborhoods.

It Is Penance To Work, To Give Oneself To Others, To Endure The Pinpricks Of Community Living.

Turn Off Your Radio. Put Away Your Daily Paper. Read One Review Of Events A Week And Spend Some Time Reading Good Books. They Tell Too Of Days Of Striving And Of Strife. They Are Of Other Centuries And Also Of Our Own. They Make Us Realize That All Times Are Perilous, That Men Live In A Dangerous World, In Peril Constantly Of Losing Or Maiming Soul And Body. We Get Some Sense Of Perspective Reading Such Books. Renewed Courage And Faith And Even Joy To Live.