Creighton Lacy - "Winds of Change in Asia" (August 14, 1960)
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- | We rejoice and bless thy name, | 0:03 |
that thy loving and saving power | 0:06 | |
can be not only with us who are in this chapel | 0:09 | |
but with those who join us in worship by radio | 0:13 | |
and in other lands. | 0:17 | |
May health and love flow into those who are sick, | 0:20 | |
and may comfort come to the bereaved. | 0:24 | |
As we draw near to the end- | 0:30 | |
(metal object clanks) | 0:32 | |
"The wind bloweth where it listeth. | 0:48 | |
"Thou hearest the sound thereof, | 0:50 | |
"but canst not tell whence it cometh, | 0:53 | |
"and whither it goeth: | 0:56 | |
"So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. | 0:59 | |
The prime minister, Macmillan, nearly a year ago, | 1:06 | |
spoke about the winds of change blowing through Africa. | 1:08 | |
He was using a vivid phrase for a very obvious fact, | 1:13 | |
(indistinct) it startled | 1:19 | |
many political and religious conservatives | 1:21 | |
who still do not want to recognize any kind of change. | 1:24 | |
Just last Sunday, in the "New York Times Magazine" section, | 1:32 | |
the article by Arnold Toynbee concluded with this sentence: | 1:37 | |
"Today, the wind of Liberty | 1:42 | |
"is blowing not only through Africa | 1:44 | |
"but through all the world." | 1:47 | |
It has been my privilege to spend the past year in India | 1:51 | |
and the past three months traveling through Southeast Asia | 1:56 | |
after nine years away from that part of the world. | 2:02 | |
This morning, I want to attempt to bring you, | 2:07 | |
very briefly and superficially, | 2:10 | |
a weather report on the history, | 2:13 | |
on the winds of change that are so obvious | 2:16 | |
on that side of the globe. | 2:19 | |
I told the chaplain I would not try to interpret | 2:22 | |
the visions of Zechariah, | 2:25 | |
which were read for the scripture lesson this morning. | 2:27 | |
But those of you who wish to identify | 2:31 | |
the red horses, or the black horses, | 2:33 | |
or the white horses and the gray horses | 2:37 | |
are welcome to do so, | 2:39 | |
for as the angel told Zechariah, | 2:42 | |
"These are the four winds of heaven, | 2:45 | |
"who go forth to patrol the earth." | 2:48 | |
The physical evidences of winds of charge | 2:54 | |
are conspicuous on every side. | 2:56 | |
A few years ago, | 3:00 | |
there was scarcely one building in Hong Kong | 3:02 | |
taller than five stories. | 3:05 | |
And yet today, that picturesque harbor | 3:08 | |
is surrounded by skyscrapers, | 3:10 | |
from luxurious hotels and office buildings | 3:13 | |
to teeming tenements. | 3:17 | |
Of the million or more refugees in Hong Kong, | 3:19 | |
one-tenth of them are being housed | 3:24 | |
in overcrowded government apartment houses. | 3:27 | |
On the outskirts of Malaya's new capital of Kuala Lumpur, | 3:32 | |
a brand new city called Petaling Jaya | 3:36 | |
has sprung up within the last two years | 3:39 | |
out of the virgin jungle of Malaya, | 3:43 | |
with thousands of homes, | 3:45 | |
a magnificent, multicolored, modernistic university. | 3:48 | |
When we re-boarded our plane | 3:54 | |
in the capital of Sarawak, North Borneo... | 3:56 |
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