Toyohiko Kagawa - "Christianity and the Atomic Age" (August 8, 1954)

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	(gentle music)	0:44
-	Just about nine years ago,	2:07
	there was a (indistinct)	2:10
	An atomic bomb struck on the city of Russia.	2:14
	In the morning (indistinct)	2:19
	150, 000 people disappeared (indistinct)	2:31
	Just this year, March 4,	2:53
	a (indistint) hydrogen bomb was tested	2:59
	at the islands of Virginia.	3:02
	As we have heard	3:07
	that the fishermen have started fishing more.	3:08
	Lower part of the, all of them.	3:17
	And during (indistinct)	3:24
	Almost each week,	3:30
	we have some terrible event happening	3:33
	because the atomic energy coming from above	3:37
	hurt the people with water, vegetables,	3:42
	and each week we have news	3:49
	that some tuna fishes are not good	3:54
	to be eaten by the people.	4:04
	So we threw them away.	4:06
	Scientists say that it might have been	4:10
	about 600 times greater explosion	4:12
	of nine years ago at Hiroshima.	4:21
	Therefore, if you drop it in this great country or republic,	4:26
	two or three bombs be enough	4:33
	to kill away all people of this great country of America.	4:35
	See if this could happen in Russia.	4:40
	So Dr. Albert Einstein says	4:44
	that the best way to annihilate humankind	4:49
	on the surface of the earth.	4:53
	That's the end of the story.	4:57
	Are we going to annihilate mankind	5:03
	on the surface of the earth	5:06
	or are we going to create new era of new civilization?	5:08
	It's wonderful to discover that those scientists	5:19
	who invented this hydrogen bomb	5:25
	are planning to adopt new theory of creation.	5:28
	It was Dr. De Broglie of the University of Paris	5:39
	in a year 1924 at Christmas time	5:44
	who gave us new theory of wave mechanics	5:48
	that a ray of light could be made into an atom.	5:53
	Then we got a new theory of quantum mechanics as you know.	6:01
	And we got new astrophysics	6:07
	of the theory of expanding universe.	6:14
	Disita of Holland,	6:18
	Dumatel of France,	6:20
	Agent Negenes of Cambridge,	6:22
	and particularly Professor Hubble of Harvard.	6:26
	They convinced us that this universe is expanding.	6:30
	In the beginning,	6:35
	there was a small universe.	6:36
	Gradually it's expanding.	6:41
	It means that it had beginning and end.	6:44
	But until Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence	6:49
	of the University of California,	6:55
	discovering and inventing that cyclotron,	6:59
	he convinced us with the new experiment of rays of light	7:04
	that it could be made into a (indistinct)	7:12
	He of course thought a ray of light has no weight.	7:18
	It doesn't act with the principles of gravitation,	7:26
	nor with the principle of inertia.	7:31
	It hasn't any weight nor rigidity.	7:35
	But when it would be made into a chrome,	7:41
	it has weight and rigidity.	7:44
	So, from nothingness,	7:48
	again, matter comes out.	7:51
	It means creation.	7:56
	You remember in a year, 1859,	8:00
	Charles Darwin gave us new theory of evolution.	8:05
	Since then, everybody in the field of science	8:10
	began to adopt this theory of evolution.	8:15
	But with the coming of atomic age,	8:18
	we discovered at last, a theory of creation.	8:22
	Here in the Bible of the Old Testament,	8:28
	we have wonderful story of creation.	8:31
	As Jews had been slaves of Egypt,	8:35
	and they got the emancipation of slavery,	8:42
	as God the creator took them away from Egypt to the Israel.	8:49
	And within 40 years, they could make a nation.	8:56
	So the story of Exodus has an interruption.	9:01
	We have Genesis at the beginning of the Old Testament.	9:07
	And in that book of Genesis, we have the story of creation.	9:12
	And Jesus told us that anybody who'd be pure in the heart,	9:18
	we could see God.	9:26
	Though we hadn't any theory of physics,	9:29
	theory of nuclear physics,	9:34
	we could understand God has created the world.	9:35
	But now having this atomic age,	9:41
	we have come to appeal to understand	9:43
	that rays of light could be made into atom	9:48
	and (indistinct)	9:53
	and the matter comes out.	9:55
	There comes in the difficulties	9:59
	of materialistic view of life,	10:01
	of communism, of Karl Marx.	10:05
	But so to say,	10:10
	though we have discovered this wonderful phenomena	10:12
	of creation matter with light.	10:16
	In the field of social science,	10:21
	in the field of sociology,	10:26
	we haven't discovered nor invented new theories.	10:28
	There we need,	10:36
	particularly you Americans,	10:37
	you have to get new theories of social reconstruction.	10:41
	You have invented these wonderful	10:48
	single cell atom, hydrogen bombs,	10:50
	and you have physicists like Karl Marx.	10:54
	This year in March,	11:03
	in the Chadwick American,	11:05
	he wrote that life of neutron,	11:10
	you, of course know the neutron	11:16
	is one of the six elementary particles which make atom.	11:17
	The life of neutron has only 12 seconds.	11:24
	So he says that	11:32
	unless about 100 atoms would be made within 30 minutes,	11:34
	this universe couldn't be existing.	11:49
	He was one of the inventors of hydrogen bomb.	11:55
	And I think many of you know	11:59
	that he wrote many stories on scientific themes.	12:01
	Four years ago, I was in London.	12:09
	And in February,	12:13
	Dr. Professor Hoyle of University of Cambridge	12:17
	made a talk on the continuous creation of the universe.	12:22
	So I went to the University of London,	12:29
	met with Professor Catherine Lonsdale,	12:32
	a specialist on crystals.	12:39
	And I asked her whether she had essays written by Dr. Hoyle.	12:43
	And she gave us series of essays	12:49
	published in nature in London.	12:55
	Then I was invited by University of Cambridge.	12:58
	And so I went.	13:02
	And Professor Dirac the famous Nobel prize winner,	13:06
	he told me that he had a different view	13:15
	of the origin of the matter.	13:19
	He told me that he thought that it couldn't be continuous.	13:24
	He believed that the author only was of the creation.	13:30
	Professor Bondi of Cambridge wrote recently	13:36
	a book called Cosmology	13:41
	and he posed the idea of creation.	13:42
	And in this country,	13:48
	some biologists began to believe in a creative evolution.	13:52
	About 40 years ago,	14:02
	Professor Henri Bergson of University of Paris	14:07
	wrote a book entitled Creative Evolution.	14:11
	Having this new theory of creation	14:16
	coming back to this fear of physics, he's right.	14:18
	Professor Dejewski of Columbia,	14:23
	in his new book on rigidity and evolution,	14:26
	he gave us the new theory of creative evolution.	14:30
	Having this new principle of creation,	14:35
	can we apply that kind of creative energy	14:40
	into social welfare.	14:44
	Homelessness would declare	14:48
	that need of violence and revolution,	14:52
	it isn't science the old anti-dated wars and revolutions	14:58
	which would never make humanity happy.	15:09
	But if we want to try to have new inventions,	15:15
	there we have wonderful principle	15:19
	of the making of new society.	15:25
	It happened at Nazareth.	15:30
	Discovered of Nazareth about 20 centuries ago,	15:33
	gave us a foundation of the building up the kingdom of God,	15:40
	a state of God.	15:49
	When we would read four gospels,	15:53
	we discover that he wasn't a politician,	15:58
	nor a statesman, nor an inventor,	16:04
	nor a artist.	16:10
	Simply was hanged on a tree	16:13
	because he denied to be a leader of a revolution	16:17
	against the Roman empire.	16:21
	But he gave us most wonderful parables of the making of,	16:24
	the making of new humanity.	16:31
	In the 15th chapter of Saint John, verse one,	16:38
	we have a parable of grapes and vine.	16:43
	My father in heaven is a husband man, a farmer.	16:49
	I'm a vine, you are the branches of grapes.	16:55
	Here we have wonderful parable of organic sources of deity.	16:59
	Then passing on to the 12th chapter of Saint John, verse 24,	17:06
	Jesus gave us another wonderful parable	17:14
	of the grain of wheat.	17:17
	He says that	17:20
	unless a grain of wheat would die underneath the ground,	17:21
	there couldn't be any multiplication of grain.	17:27
	Here we have historical sources of deity.	17:34
	Mothers sacrifice their lives for the sake of children.	17:42
	And when mothers did the same thing for the mothers.	17:48
	This tree means a succession of sacrifice	17:54
	for the coming generation.	17:59
	So here we have organic sources of deity	18:03
	and sources of deity in time.	18:07
	But more than that,	18:15
	Jesus gave us another parable	18:17
	between the sixth chapter of Saint John, verse 53.	18:20
	Unless you drink my blood and eat my flesh,	18:26
	you couldn't be able to get life eternal.	18:33
	As 5,000 Jews tried to make him the king of Judea,	18:41
	instead of degradation of the independence of Jews,	18:49
	he gave this peculiar saying,	18:59
	that unless a man would drink the blood of Jesus	19:04
	and eat his flesh,	19:09
	no life eternal.	19:12
	People couldn't understand this profound meaning of it.	19:15
	Even today, millions and millions of people	19:20
	do not understand this profound meaning of blood and flesh.	19:25
	If you would have cosmic consciousness,	19:35
	or consciousness of God,	19:40
	if you just Listen to the suffering of God,	19:43
	because He shares the difficulty of his people.	19:49
	Jesus having this cosmic consciousness	19:57
	and God's consciousness,	20:02
	listening to the suffering of God to his father	20:06
	because people suffered from sinfulness,	20:11
	and God the father prodigal sons had to remake mankind.	20:19
	So Jesus dared to share the difficulties of God.	20:26
	If we would have a wounded spot in the body,	20:32
	simply having a wound, the body would die.	20:38
	So, blood comes to the wounded spot and dies	20:43
	for the sake of remaking that wound to be perfect.	20:49
	And this profound parable of blood and flesh of Christ	20:54
	still good for 20th century	20:59
	to be made into the principles of remaking mankind.	21:03
	We need creation,	21:09
	we need preservation,	21:11
	and also we need regeneration, or remaking mankind.	21:13
	However, unless we would have new intentions	21:20
	of brotherly love,	21:26
	or the redemptive love of Christ are the basis of humanity,	21:29
	how we could be able to get peace throughout the world.	21:35
	Nations are preparing for coming wars.	21:42
	But what we need today is the blood and flesh of Christ.	21:47
	Other foundation of new peace	21:53
	and new culture of the whole world.	21:56
	Because we lack this prayer,	22:02
	longings to make universal peace,	22:06
	therefore, we simply pray without pain.	22:12
	But you have wonderful United States of America.	22:20
	Can't we get United States of whole world?	22:25
	Sweden, about eight years ago,	22:31
	told her that we need the new status	22:38
	to launch out new united nations of the world.	22:42
	Having international trade based on altruistic motives,	22:47
	it means that we need cooperative international trade.	22:59
	And it could be done.	23:06
	With the ending of the First World War,	23:11
	we got labor unions at the basis of new peace.	23:13
	There as Russia came down,	23:21
	the ILO, International Labor Office,	23:24
	was segregated from the United Nations Organization.	23:30
	But this time,	23:36
	Sweden proposed to have cooperation between nations	23:38
	without split of profiteering motives.	23:44
	Sweden proposed to have this idea,	23:47
	the basis of new world, new peace.	23:50
	And that is based on The Lord's Prayer.	23:54
	Thy kingdom come.	23:58
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	24:00
	When Karl Marx wrote his communist manifesto around 1848,	24:08
	there was a turbulent time in England as you know.	24:17
	Witham Wordsworth, a great poet,	24:22
	was a student of Oxford.	24:27
	And he visited France	24:30
	because he had some revolutionary spirit	24:32
	and had rather a bad time with the French women.	24:37
	He got a baby.	24:44
	But he forsaken her,	24:46
	came back to England.	24:49
	Then he was repented.	24:53
	He came to Lake District of Midland of England.	24:57
	Four years ago,	25:02
	they had the St Belarus memorial day for Wordsworth.	25:07
	So I visited the grave of William Wordsworth	25:15
	to the Dove's cottage of Lake District.	25:19
	Reading his biography,	25:24
	I was impressed that he,	25:28
	that great poet of nature, repented.	25:32
	In the beginning,	25:37
	he was influenced by the revolutionary ideas.	25:38
	But came back once more to nature to God.	25:42
	So he began to write beautiful poems	25:47
	in the ministry of nature of Lake District.	25:50
	Same thing happened in Norway.	25:55
	There was a chemist Near Oslo.	25:59
	His name was Hendrick Ibsen.	26:03
	He was a chemist	26:08
	and fell in love with a beautiful girl in Norway.	26:09
	And having a baby, he deserted her.	26:17
	Came to begging,	26:22
	being repented,	26:25
	confessed his sins,	26:28
	began to write wonderful religious dramas	26:30
	which we have today.	26:33
	We are tempted in this atomic age,	26:39
	having many wars.	26:43
	In Japan, we have terrible time of crimes	26:45
	and degeneration of sexual life.	26:48
	So I think you have the same trouble.	26:52
	What we need today is repentance	26:56
	of William Wordsworth and Hendrick Ibsen.	27:00
	So was Dezelski of Russia.	27:05
	So was the (mumbles)	27:09
	It's necessary to come back to Christ once more,	27:13
	to ask him to live in our hearts.	27:17
	Just a moment ago,	27:22
	our friend has led us most wonder prayer of Paul	27:24
	asking God to Have our inner man to be strengthened	27:29
	and receiving Jesus in your heart.	27:39
	It means that you have no right	27:43
	to make Jesus outside of your consciousness.	27:47
	Usually we make Christ there only.	27:50
	What we need today in 20th century of the atomic age,	27:54
	you have to let Jesus Christ live in your heart by faith.	27:58
	So big buildings,	28:08
	institutions can never make a man happier	28:11
	unless living Christ would dwell in you	28:16
	without having ethical upheaval.	28:25
	What does it mean by religious revival?	28:28
	I doubt it.	28:33
	Therefore, I plead to you that	28:34
	let us have indwell in Christ by faith.	28:38
	Let us pray.	28:46
	Father in heaven, have mercy on us.	29:00
	We are degenerated,	29:06
	we are depraved.	29:08
	So we confess our sins	29:11
	though we have discovered atoms and hydrogen bombs,	29:14
	we are disabled to remake mankind.	29:19
	So help us today,	29:23
	this very moment,	29:24
	to get new inventions of remaking mankind	29:27
	through the blood of Christ and his flesh.	29:31
	So, the grace of our redeemer, Jesus Christ,	29:41
	communion of the holy spirit,	29:47
	Jehovah, our creator, the father,	29:49
	abide you forever and ever more, amen.	29:54
	♪ Amen ♪	30:02
	♪ Amen ♪	30:06
	♪ Amen ♪	30:11
	♪ Amen ♪	30:23
	♪ Amen ♪	30:30
	♪ Amen ♪	30:41

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Toyohiko Kagawa - "Christianity and the Atomic Age" (August 8, 1954)

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August 8, 1954

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