One of the most terrible aspects of atomic energy is the terrific lingering radioactivity imparted to anything nearby. Human beings go near the place where an atomic explosion has taken place at their own peril.
A man filling out a job application blank came to the question, "Have you ever been arrested?" His answer was "No." The next question, asking "Why?", was meant for those who had answered the first part in the affirmative. Nevertheless, the applicant answered it with, "Never got caught." That was the truth.
When we were in Holland, we wanted to spend Sunday at Marken, a beautiful little island northeast of Amsterdam. Since there was no hotel there, we stayed in a town four miles away in order to take the ferry over in the morning. The women of the town wear turned-up caps, and the men wear big, baggy trousers and wooden shoes, and smoke Meerschaum pipes - great big pipes about as big as a saxaphone. In the morning, while we waited for the ferry we noticed several hundred villagers gathering for the Catholic church service across the street.
Let us consider how God deals with any individual manifestation of sin. We take for our example twins who are brought up in the same environment. The best example would be brothers born of the same father and mother, and born at the same time. We will conceive them to be equally endowed with intelligence and health, so that outwardly they are completely equal.
All around us we find the unsaved world with its laws and codes of conduct based on a philosophy far removed from God’s concept of sin. Human law does not hold man to be a thief until he has actually stolen something. A policeman might find a man loitering in a dark alley near the open window of a house, but the man could not be charged with robbery unless he had reached through the window and extracted some article that did not belong to him. In other words, the world says that a man is not a criminal until he has committed some crime.
