WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:03.003 --> 00:00:38.636 [Musical Interlude] 00:00:38.636 --> 00:00:43.760 Righteousness exalted the nation but sin   00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:51.200 is a reproach to any people. Abraham Lincoln  declared if America is ever destroyed,   00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.000 it will not be because of an enemy  who attacks her shores from without   00:00:57.040 --> 00:01:02.240 but because she has grown weak and has  been destroyed by the enemy from within.   00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:12.080 Today America faces a crisis in morality. There  is a sickness in society which pervades on every   00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:19.040 hand. The symptoms of this sickness are made  evident through degradation on every level.   00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.520 Corruption is to be found in every walk of life. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:32.080 Our American way of life, so imposing and  impressive, has its foreboding parallel   00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:35.920 in the complete collapse of some of  the greatest nations of antiquity.   00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:41.920 In the famous book, The Decline  and Fall of the Roman Empire,   00:01:42.800 --> 00:01:47.920 five reasons are given for the downfall of  that government's high order of society.   00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:55.120 The building of giant army, the  increasingly heavy taxation of the people,   00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:07.840 the mad craze for pleasure,   00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:21.840 the decay of religious faith  as a guide to the people,   00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:29.440 the increase of divorce and the undermining  of the sanctity of the home. All the while   00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:35.840 they fail to realize that the real enemy lay  within the gates, the moral decay of the people. 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:41.120 There is a marked parallel in  our own national life today. 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:52.880 We're slow to realize the degree to which  sin infiltrates, impregnates and pollutes   00:02:52.880 --> 00:03:01.920 every avenue of our society. There is a remedy but  first let's consider this disease which reaches   00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:08.080 out its ugly tentacles to bring unhappiness,  pain, sorrow and death to all mankind.   00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:19.840 One of these tentacles is crime. For every one  dollar we spend on education we spend $1.46 on   00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.800 crime prevention and crime detention says the  leading Southern California judicial authority.   00:03:26.320 --> 00:03:33.200 In less than two years more than one million  of our American teenagers will be arrested   00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:38.240 annually. Not to mention the countless other  thousands who will get into trouble with the law.   00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:46.640 J Edgar hoover reports that in the  past 10 years crime has risen 56%. 00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:56.160 This rise in crime is four times as fast as the  population increase warrants according to the FBI. 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:05.200 For example we have had more bank robberies  in the past 12 months per capita than for any   00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:17.840 other year in the entire history of the United  States. In regard to the juvenile crime problem,   00:04:17.840 --> 00:04:21.280 here is Sergeant Bob Vernon of  the Los Angeles police department. 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:28.160 We have the Los Angeles police department juvenile  division find in another part of the crime problem   00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:32.080 is the alarming rise in the ruthless and  violent acts committed by juvenile gangs.   00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:38.560 Gang activity is just another expression of  the delinquents rebellion against society.   00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:44.240 Due to the legal restrictions controlling  the purchase of firearms and other weapons,   00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:51.120 the delinquent is forced to use his own ingenuity  to create devise and make his own lethal weapons.   00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:57.520 Probably the most common weapon used  in juvenile gang fights is the zip gun.   00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:05.600 The zip gun a lethal weapon is created from  a variety of common articles such as the   00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:12.080 car radio antenna and the common  household lock that you see here. 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:20.560 Another very popular weapon  is the switchblade knife.   00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:28.720 Due to its dangerous nature this knife is now  prohibited in California and many other states.   00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:40.960 This may be referred to as the delinquents yo-yo,  however the purpose of this article is to inflict   00:05:40.960 --> 00:05:47.280 vicious bodily injury. The weapons you see  displayed here and many others are presently   00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:53.200 being used in the increasing number of gang wars  being waged throughout our great nation. Juvenile   00:05:53.200 --> 00:05:59.600 delinquency and gang activity is increasing at  such an alarming rate that the Los Angeles police   00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:06.560 department alone confiscates literally hundreds of  pounds of weapons such as you see here annually. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:13.360 It's indeed a tragedy that many  of our young people must spend   00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:19.840 some of the best years of their lives behind bars. 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:25.040 Robbery, fighting, knifing and murder  are among the crimes committed by these   00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:39.040 roving bands of youth. Crime is one of the  symptoms of the disease of sin in the heart. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.240 Mr. Roger Arnberg city attorney  for Los Angeles reports.  00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:56.800 Recently a survey was made of 8,000 teenagers  17 years of age or younger who had passed   00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:03.280 before the juvenile court, of this number  only 42 regularly attended Sunday school.   00:07:03.840 --> 00:07:10.400 More significant is the fact that not one  of the parents of these 8,000 teenagers   00:07:10.400 --> 00:07:16.720 regularly attended church. This is a problem  of grave concern to law enforcement officials.   00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:24.720 America today is probably the most unlawful  nation in the world. We cannot become too   00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:29.840 graphic regarding the symptom of immorality  because of the very nature of the subject. 00:07:32.080 --> 00:07:39.200 To reveal the depths of degradation to which we  have fallen, we turn to our own Washington DC, a   00:07:39.200 --> 00:07:45.200 city upon which the eyes of the world are focused.  A city which should set an example to the nation.   00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:57.840 Listen for every 1,000 births in this city,  188 of them are illegitimate. For the first   00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:05.360 five months of the school term last year there  were 185 pregnancies among public school girls,   00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.400 70% of these pregnancies were among those of   00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:17.280 junior high school age and this is  only one city our nation's capital. 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:26.880 Immorality is a symptom of the sickness of  society. The disease sin in the human heart.   00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:35.520 Another symptom of the disease of sin should be  noted here, Harvard professor Carl C Zimmerman   00:08:35.520 --> 00:08:41.600 reports that this symptom destroys 4  million American families annually. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:53.520 The very word reeks with tragedy. Law  enforcement officers generally agree that   00:08:53.520 --> 00:08:58.720 broken homes are the underlying cause for most  young people getting into trouble with the law.   00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:05.840 It is no wonder that Dr. Robert Fitch of the  University of California at Berkeley says   00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:13.840 our divorce system simply sinks into  the slide. Divorce is a symptom of   00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:21.840 the sickness in our society but the disease  as we have said is sin in the human heart. 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:29.200 Our educational system has been under  indictment because of Russia's early successes   00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:35.680 in the race for space, but our schools are  under a greater indictment because of moral   00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:45.840 access. Senator Estes Kefauver recently stated our  educational system breeds moral irresponsibility. 00:09:48.160 --> 00:09:54.720 Isn't it cause to hang our head in shame that  in our American school system which was based   00:09:54.720 --> 00:10:00.640 and founded upon the word of God, we no longer  desire to have the name of God even mentioned?   00:10:01.920 --> 00:10:09.280 God has become unconstitutional. How tragic it is  that we have taken the bible out of the classroom,   00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.560 only to have to put it into the penitentiary. 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:19.120 The curving of juvenile delinquency  begins in the high chair.   00:10:21.280 --> 00:10:39.600 Not in the electric chair. In our nation we seem  to have cast off all desire to right living. There   00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:46.080 is a marked lack of self restraint. Profanity  has become acceptable even in the highest   00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:52.960 social circle. If our national leaders,  public heroes and entertainment personalities   00:10:53.840 --> 00:11:00.240 use terms of profanity, is it any wonder that  children write obscene language on the sidewalks. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:08.560 Scribble it on buildings and shout it at play even  before they know what the terms mean. Profanity   00:11:08.560 --> 00:11:16.240 and obscenity are only symptoms of the sickness  of society of which sin is the true disease. 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:21.920 The lowering standards of  the entertainment mediums   00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:27.840 has had a real share in bringing about the  crisis in morality which faces us today. 00:11:31.760 --> 00:11:38.720 A motion picture producer declared the phrase:  for adults only, brings the biggest audiences. 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:46.320 Francis Melrose dramatic editor for the  Rocky Mountain newspapers in Colorado,   00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:53.520 a news man not a religious leader, said  let us hope that the months ahead will   00:11:53.520 --> 00:11:59.040 bring a change in movies. Not that movies  aren't bigger, brighter and more beautiful   00:11:59.040 --> 00:12:04.800 than they've been for several seasons, they  are. But they have also made a great mistake.   00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:11.600 In an all-out effort to compete with television,  movie makers have gone to deplorable lanes   00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:16.880 in order to emphasize what they've done  they have produced some ads that are not   00:12:16.880 --> 00:12:25.120 only in questionable taste but are also downright  degrading to the whole industry. In the stories   00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:29.840 marriage, the sanctity of the home, and the  traditional punishment for doers of wrong   00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:37.840 seems to have gone down the drain or would  sewer be a better word? So says Mr. Melrose. 00:12:39.920 --> 00:12:45.840 Recently TV stations in Southern California  were monitored by a civic group for five days,   00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:52.240 Monday through Friday, during the three peak  hours of viewing by children. During this period   00:12:52.800 --> 00:13:02.800 there were 162 murders, 196 attempted murders, 26  conspiracies to commit murder and 53 homicides.   00:13:03.680 --> 00:13:10.800 Assorted cases of arson, extortion, brutality and  physical attack were too numerous to even mention. 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:17.600 It is no wonder that we have the  senseless brutal crimes by roaming   00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:33.840 youth groups. And yet we let TV  do the job of moral education. 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:47.840 The quality of motion and television pictures is  another of the symptoms of the sickness of society   00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:51.840 the disease of course is sin in the heart. 00:13:54.160 --> 00:13:59.360 There are other areas where this crisis  immorality and a creeping moral rock can be seen.   00:14:00.800 --> 00:14:04.400 Magazine stands and book racks  handle questionable material.   00:14:07.280 --> 00:14:12.080 Even some of our great department stores have  stooped to handling books which can only tend   00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:19.600 to degrade their readers. Unspeakably filthy  publications are being produced for distribution   00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:27.840 to our youth to the tune of a 5 billion a year  business. Clever advertising blinds are used   00:14:28.640 --> 00:14:33.360 for 10 cents you can get a water pistol or  a picture of your favorite baseball hero.   00:14:35.280 --> 00:14:41.040 Once these lascivious dealers have the name  a deluge of filthy materials may be received.   00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:49.600 When such scurrilous material is received it  should be reported to law enforcement officers. 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:57.600 It is tragic that the Supreme Court of the  United States has not upheld some of the   00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:03.600 rulings of our postal authorities in regard to  the mailing of filthy and immoral literature.   00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:11.520 A restriction by the postmaster general was  rescinded by the Supreme Court, they declared an   00:15:11.520 --> 00:15:18.960 effect that moral standards are changing something  is only bad if one considers that it is bad.   00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:27.440 It may be that our standards have changed  but God's laws are always the same. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:40.240 Pornography, obscene literature, lewd  pictures, questionable advertising, sex parades   00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:53.840 are all symptoms of an illness but the  real disease is sin in the human heart. 00:15:55.040 --> 00:16:02.880 We've become greatly concerned over atomic fallout  but we have done nothing about alcohol. We permit   00:16:02.880 --> 00:16:09.680 this poison to be used in such a widespread manner  that it is killing 40,000 of our people annually. 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:19.200 Alcohol is responsible for a large  part of the crime, disease, tragedy,   00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:26.320 accidents, business failures and divorce.  There are more beer joints, cocktail bars   00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:32.880 and liquor stores in the United States than  there are churches of every denomination,   00:16:32.880 --> 00:16:37.600 faith and creed. This includes  cults and foreign religions as well. 00:16:39.920 --> 00:16:46.320 We are fast becoming a nation, not of alcoholics  anonymous but of alcoholics unanimous.   00:16:47.040 --> 00:16:54.080 More than 7,000 people become alcoholics  every day. Alcoholism is a symptom of   00:16:54.080 --> 00:17:00.320 sickness in our society, the disease  however is sin in the human heart. 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:04.640 Narcotics. 00:17:06.800 --> 00:17:12.000 To tell us something about this symptom here is  Captain Lewis Brown in charge of Enforcement,   00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.640 United States Customs Service Los Angeles. 00:17:17.040 --> 00:17:21.120 Many people in this country thought our problems  had abated with the signing of the peace   00:17:21.120 --> 00:17:28.960 treaties of World War II. However since that time  another great menace has entered on the horizon.   00:17:30.320 --> 00:17:37.200 The narcotic problem has increased many  fold during the past several years. We   00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:45.840 in the custom service know of the increase  in smuggling and usage during this period. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:56.320 This is some marijuana seized recently at  our local harbor. Marijuana is the first drug   00:17:56.320 --> 00:18:05.600 usually taken by an addict before he graduates to  a more gracious drug: heroin, morphine or codeine. 00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:16.480 I have here a vial of 92 percent pure  heroin, originating from Red China sources.   00:18:17.840 --> 00:18:24.800 This file of heroin on the illicit market would  cost the attic approximately five hundred dollars. 00:18:27.600 --> 00:18:33.680 There are many and varied means of  smuggling narcotics into the United States,   00:18:35.040 --> 00:18:38.960 this is a pair of smuggling  shoes often resorted to   00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:44.400 or smuggling narcotics passed our  frontier guards in the United States. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.640 This is codeine, often used  by our medical profession   00:18:53.520 --> 00:19:01.040 as a painkiller but when used by the  narcotic addict becomes a deadly poison. 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:11.120 Here's a block of morphine,  which originated in Hong Kong   00:19:11.120 --> 00:19:15.920 would cost on the illicit market  approximately fifteen thousand dollars. 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:24.720 Despite the efforts of federal, state and local  officials, the traffic in narcotics continues.   00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.840 Addicts resort to various  forms of crime men to robbery,   00:19:29.840 --> 00:19:35.040 women to immorality, in order to satisfy  their never-ending crave for dope. 00:19:37.840 --> 00:19:42.560 Narcotics too are a symptom  of the illness in our society. 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:53.200 There are other areas of the crisis in morality.  Americans waste more than 30 billion dollars   00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:59.920 annually in gambling. More than the combined  profits of the top 100 manufacturing companies   00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:07.040 in our country but the tragedies in homes and  lives can never be computed in dollars and cents. 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:15.600 Sensational crimes are a real part of  our growing American crisis in morality   00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:24.160 but what about the average individual? Is he  guilty of lying, cheating, stealing or deceiving?   00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:31.840 Our government reports that about 75 percent  of the citizens cheat on their income tax.   00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.280 Companies sadly comment on  the average office worker   00:20:37.280 --> 00:20:42.800 who helps himself to stationary, stamps,  paper clips, tools and other supplies. 00:20:46.560 --> 00:20:53.920 What has happened to our personal integrity?  God hates a lying tongue, a false witness   00:20:54.640 --> 00:21:01.840 and one who steals. There are many diseases today,  which if un-arrested will bring physical death.   00:21:03.040 --> 00:21:10.400 Medical science is working diligently to discover  cures remedies and miracle drugs. In many cases   00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:18.560 they have been successful but here is a disease  so severe that unless the only cure is utilized   00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:24.720 it will positively end not only in  physical but also spiritual death.   00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:34.160 That disease of which these are  symptoms is sin, sin in the human heart. 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:40.480 God says all have sinned,   00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:48.480 the heart is deceitful above all things and  desperately wicked. The wages of sin is death.   00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:56.320 Cleaning up is not the answer. Billions have  been spent in New York City to clean up the slums   00:21:57.120 --> 00:22:02.800 but the housing authority has reported that it now  takes more police for the same number of people.   00:22:04.800 --> 00:22:07.920 We can stress education get better buildings   00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:12.880 and put a psychologist in every  room but these are not the cures. 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:22.560 Congressional investigations, the courts,  the PTA, camps and clubs as fine and useful   00:22:22.560 --> 00:22:30.000 as they are will not cure the youth problems. The  answer to the distress and calamity of our youth   00:22:30.560 --> 00:22:35.840 must begin in the hearts and lives of fathers  and mothers before their children are born.   00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:43.280 It begins the day we accept Jesus Christ  as savior and dedicate our lives to him.   00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:52.160 This dedication involves much more than a  ritual. It calls for exemplary daily Christian   00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:58.880 living. The existing moral crisis brings us  face to face with the greatest of challenges   00:23:00.080 --> 00:23:07.440 namely the need for complete commitment to  Christ. This need for Christian living has   00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:13.600 never been so evident. Even as the crisis  in morality is on the individual level,   00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:21.600 so the cure is up to each one personally. The  disease is not something that can be handled by   00:23:21.600 --> 00:23:29.120 mass inoculation. Christ alone, through  his life-giving blood, provides the remedy. 00:23:31.760 --> 00:23:34.960 The cure for crime and immorality is Christ   00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:41.520 in the heart. The only cure for broken  homes is a family united in Christ.   00:23:45.280 --> 00:23:50.080 As Christians we should not hunt through  the garbage cans of the world to find   00:23:50.080 --> 00:23:54.000 food to sustain us and to enable  us to fight the battles of life. 00:23:57.120 --> 00:24:04.400 As God's people we need to feed on the word of  God, we need to find fellowship with Christians,   00:24:05.520 --> 00:24:12.560 we need to be a testimony to the world about us,  we need to train our children spiritually in the   00:24:12.560 --> 00:24:17.680 home and we need to see that they receive  the right kind of training in the schools. 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:23.680 Many hundreds of Christian  grammar schools and high schools   00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:28.240 have been established in the last few years  to meet the need for Christian education. 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.720 Christian colleges enable students  to complete their education.   00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:40.640 Biola College one of the four schools of the  Bible Institute of Los Angeles incorporated   00:24:41.280 --> 00:24:47.200 is well equipped for this task. Under the  leadership of a Christian faculty young   00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:52.240 people receive education and training which  adequately prepares them for a life of service.   00:24:56.800 --> 00:25:02.880 In a world filled with fear we see in these  young people one of the few bright rays of hope.   00:25:09.840 --> 00:25:17.680 Christian homes, Christian churches and Christian  schools, what better preparation can we give   00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:25.760 and what better defense can there be to meet  the crisis? Only God can change the tide of   00:25:25.760 --> 00:25:34.560 immorality which afflicts us and he can do it only  as we individually are willing to let him use us.   00:25:36.320 --> 00:25:45.680 Let him do his work through you. Build your life  upon the sure foundation which is Jesus Christ. 00:25:48.320 --> 00:25:56.080 If my people which are called by my name shall  humble themselves and pray and seek my face   00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:01.360 and turn from their wicked ways  then will I hear from heaven   00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:09.840 and will forgive their sin  and will heal their land.