Lewis J. Sherrill
It is a Gospel to men who
are without God, sinful, bewildered, anxious, discouraged,
self-sufficient and proud yet destroying themselves and others,
caught in a desperate plight from which they cannot extricate
themselves. The Bible characterizes men in such a state as "lost",
and as being "without hope in the world"... And let no one
suppose that such a term as "lost" is merely a bit of
conventional theological jargon. It stands for a terrible reality, a
reality which modern man in his modern predicament knows only too
well from his own bitter experience. It gives rise to the voices of
despair which haunt our radios, our newspapers, our fiction and
poetry, our stage and screen, our doctors' offices, our hospital
wards, our grisly nightmare of atomic war, and the conversation of
common people who no sooner meet than they begin to bemoan the fate
that has overtaken the world.
Lewis J. Sherrill