More perceptive kind of unity

Thank God, our Christian chance is not permanently
gone from us [in world affairs]. Ecclesiastics seems
for the most part to have failed, failed both humanity
and God; but God has not failed, Jesus has not failed.
The God-man still remains the only leader into cooperation
whose wisdom is sufficient for a permanent, competent,
and free Society. The dictators and would-be dictators will
not do. They overreach themselves. Eventually they will
destroy one another, and kill off most of us. But even
that disaster will not eradicate the desire of men and
women to lay down lives for that which is more than
themselves. People will continue to demand not the freedom
from that degree of unity for which the dictatorships
stand, but rather a finer, more noble, more perceptive kind of
unity: a human solidarity which is not nationalistic but
world-embracing, a human integration which in aim and purpose
is not secularist but spiritual. What the world unwittingly
is groping after is allegiance to the eternal, the
compassionate, the completely integrating Christ.
- Bernard Iddings Bell (1886-1958), "Still Shine the Stars"