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The Negro's Church

There is no such thing as an enemy; but in war, people who
profit by war, teach us that we have enemies.
The final price must be paid. We must have faith in the
potentiality of good will. There are many wonderful machines
which are invented and with just a click of a button, one machine
can do the work of a thousand people. I do not wonder why
some men bow down to science in its wonderful discoveries, but
wonderful as science is, it cannot turn out a machine that can
turn out one ounce of good will. God works through the incarnation of Jesus Christ, in that Christ died for us. Let not your
heart be troubled. Your heart must not be troubled if you would
have peace in the world. You must pay the price. If any one
this morning wants to unite with the church, let him come now.
"Thy Kingdom Come."-Its Social and Economic Implications
Habitually and obviously without thought, we pray "Thy
Kingdom come." But in reality, we do not want the Kingdom
to come. If I understand what is meant by the Kingdom, it
means the existence of that state of society in which human
values are the supreme values. It means the creation of a world
in which every individual born into it would be given an opportunizy to grow physically, to develop mentally and progress
spiritually without the imposition of artificial obstructions from
without. Everything in the environment would be conducive to
developing to the nth degree the individual's innate powers. At
the center of our social, religious, political and economic life
would be not a selfish profit motive, not a prostituted conception
of nationalism, not a distorted notion of race superiority; but at
the center of our lives would be the sacredness of human personality; and whatever we did, the chief aim would be to protect
life and improve it. If this is the meaning of the Kingdom, then
frankly, we must admit that we do not want it.
Let us see for a moment, what would happen if such a Kingdom as this should come to the world. As an individual, I would
not wish any good thing for myself that I would not wish for
every other man on God's earth. And if the thing I want, though
beneficial to me, would be damaging to my neighbor of whatever