Dr. Rees Sermon, 1963-11-17

it's been then a very famous of us from the most famous prayer give us this day

our daily bread i don't suppose anybody even in this last congregation as ever thought of saying the lord's prayer in the first person singular my father which art in heaven as though you were the only child of god forgive me as though the sins of the world would have no moment to us leave me not into temptation as though the pitfalls of life for our families and our friends would have no moment

this is not my own idea is among those fourteen hundred and ten great moravian reform a young host krista seiden in which he accused his congregation are doing exactly this also in the first person singular i tried it myself and it sounded like a prayer other help relief centers i was separated myself from my family separated myself from my neighbors and say to myself oh man

and i think the phrase in the appropriate enough most stuck in my throat was when i tried to say given me this day my daily bread as though it was none of my business that might change if at all my neighbors to all my fellow men and i report well the temptations of argo was a visa ten storms into brent angie spoke to do it because of that he was but when the late it as the ministry his disciples company battalion the thousands of hungry his

answer was something to eat i was a little disappointed at my age as the house or people's memories are in the days of the second world war in my country we were not letting any doubt as to what we were fighting against the good news but i don't think many of those were a certain us to what we were fighting for it until that date august when franklin roosevelt and winston churchill issue of the atlantic charter and almost forgotten

documented it and included in it the four freedoms and i doubt they're going to be people could recite those for freedom that freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom from fear and freedom from want they noted the minds and hearts of everyone involved in that war and not be as the past as it will run the world like in every country i go to like take a test racine went out in fact we not only won them all but one the freedoms we were fighting for i wonder when i'm

east german is exactly how much freedom religion then as i wander in other countries behind the iron curtain a speech i wonder in your country and mine in this atomic age how much freedom of spare there is and because my travels take me mostly into the hands of the forgotten man i wonder that often from what that is this morning or was in wartime you are afraid that the often lost might be on aftermath of handguns all this

but diaz says the objective of freedom from want and yet the house facts of the date which really is that more than half the world goes to bed hungry every night of kennedy's ones one st and also levit reproduce seventeen percent more food than we need it and say to meet joey ramone we need less food and to keep them healthy

and i put it in front of all the factions here in the united states the average mandates for about half pounds of food every day and many of them look like it in a still eats one and a quarter pounds of food and eighty five percent of that his rights more than half were living on a three dollar week civilization was certainly won't trouble about that starting and the infected and the situation is that the hungry are multiplying the population far faster than the lawyers are increasing food production

during the course of this city's population will increase by five by this time tomorrow i'll hundred and twenty thousand and we have to recreate the moment with the fact that they will be forty eight million more blessed than this it had twelve months the population has increased by thirty three percent since nineteen forty five you but your full production has increased by fifty percent why should you want to you can use that i don't like tech in

asia the population has increased by thirty percent and therefore production by twenty five percent so in twenty years of taking the whiskey and ate too underdeveloped countries and scientific progress the election result is that the hungry have less to eat today eighty percent less wheat and in nineteen forty five this staggering problem new ofa would auction and population explosion you would think there's one man in a visible unfortunately does not proving so neither a judge settled

law in the united nations as they get into a serious approach to balancing these deep problems in the world about it and because of all still renters of the family planning knew that the consequences this week and although food production and that is why in nineteen sixty eight to organize edition of united nations again what is known as the freedom from hunger campaign you probably know you can stop anything in united nations resolution but the revolution that started the freedom from hunger campaign again with these words considering the alarm clock to lose population still does not have enough to eat

and an even larger plot doesn't get enough of the right kind of find out this is not a resolution adopted by a lot of christians and then it was adopted by habit and diplomats and politicians will recognize a lot of top of the population below studio have enough to eat and recognizing it established this campaign yet of a campaign ought to follow first messaging to create a worldwide awareness of the problems of heart not wish upon from evil and suffering and then in addition in low blows a very serious threat to peace and progress in this world and secondly we see in which solutions can be

organized there are now more than a hundred national committee's around the world yet in your country you have the food for peace council in my country we have what is called war on want this last june we met in washington with wallace the halfway point in the campaign at the world from congress and i was the only thing we were such an odd was that this is a long term problem but there are no easy solutions and certainly none in sight in a five year period but later maybe it is charged with a great sense of urgency and the media's it is that the first of more because the hungry can't afford to wait

must have them on the debt unless we move fast it is also urgent because the world can't afford to wait is a dangerous politician and anybody who knows a violent apostle of communism i wouldn't want to teach my boss review was so she can know fan i get treated to the horn you can't digest claw marks on a full stomach if i want to start a riot in the middle east i edited amongst the hong

kong is a dangerous politician and the world can't afford to wait there are two other things about this problem with very much to me as it is the first is that by a lot of the mess of the hungry people are also playing hundred people no mess and god knows race relations are bad enough that they're being exacerbated by home trouble is the bottom line of the mass of the welfare of our people call shows christian people all call their country's christian cult

of the mass of the hanging optical holy called pagans and i have never found any connection with moscow beating grayson obesity but i find anywhere that the penalty of not knowing or not receiving the gospel is amongst other things start a show no damage once said that emmy awards and the war won't is a crusade it is i have it basically a responsibility on governmental and intergovernmental bodies weekend of song this problem by private society is collecting subscriptions you and every one of the

nations must be hundreds if we are to achieve victory again the government can do that and only the aid comes does it do but saying this week brought more excuses god's purpose as revealing jesus christ is to redeem the whole of human life and if the judges to get a conviction that it's the spill is the only gospel it must do so by showing that redemption and is often both look at not only that men might have life but have a more abundant and there is i am happy to say an amazing guest in response to this

need so suddenly come into our consciousness judges in western germany through my campaign to work i've been able to start an amazing number of experimental agricultural products in the developing countries say good riddance to hungary and a woman in austria and switzerland through bad for my brother and just the lives and work of church world service supported by your one they aren't sharing the same as bing bong again ice ages and only a massive international action can begin to solve this problem but that action that there's a success on public understanding public confession and public support and i'm making it live and

history museum and the judges i am so happy to do it the sikh kristen understand because i believe that is understanding the judges they will surely be compassionate and well it is compassion to repression of what action and while support of such action as is already on the way i do i want to discount what has been done by the judges already few people had better opportunities than i have of seeing the use for rich americans surplus food sent by outages and by your government and it's not the answer the philosophy of offering them from when you can't pay

their best be found in the chinese problem which goes up if you'll give the man the fish to eat you feed him for a bit but if you teach him how to fish you'll see and that campaign is to teach the world how to fish or if you like how to plow state of photos so that recede and we could be the hardest so the body's own efforts he sells his pablo not just by charity and get out and you'll recall that while your children are being educated you have to feed them and while we're getting a hungry how to fish we had to feed them and that is why the service of the church

in this area like the settlers of unicef continues to be of such vital importance we have committed ourselves as a workout of the judges for this program and thereby evaded you doing the saintly popes john mcentee is that shortly before he died said this like clay and holy men let me repeat the principle of human solidarity and remember that and fiction although the duty of those communities and individuals those who live in what thing i like most about his holiness his statement little words for each

logger years ago when i was an undergraduate is a new musical stock old jack smith the whispering about it and so much afraid than half cup opens a film by the reverend john smith the whispering preacher and i decided to educate about how are the needs of our fellow man and the responsibilities that we have towards it was dear friends in america telling me that the pace of life in this country so hectic war have taken a lot of the wreckage of the major task of the ministry is comforting a disturbed i thank god i have a different ministry of disturbing the comfortable and show you level we're so comfortable

i didn't want it to be at the end of the service that they've enjoyed musselman i've wasted my time last year and then it was an indian and a small potted went out into the villages one day and there were seen sitting in the boston it'll go about eleven sobbing of hatha and the gang was asked to go find out what was a little trouble and they came back with no sense of excitement and no sense of urgency she's riding because it's not her day to eat and i would remind you that in the prayer we've been told to say we're taught to play for our daily bread it was never intended the truth should eat once a day every other day

nicholas but diet writes the bread for oneself is a latino preoccupation bread for others is a speech to a preoccupation and must become one of the major ones or the judge did not try to not send them away you'll give them something to eat and you know the excuse the disciples that really have five rows of tools more efficient and analysis shows a visitor dramatic gun or who benefit that's one excuse that you can't do now to gobble follow along the song and on the holy spirit your own lawyer were lobbed in all men the

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