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 |