Spiritual Crisis
LESLIE HOLMES Moderator
steady erosion of our Judeo-Christian moral system that I see wherever I go. Here are just a few examples: In 1967, the USA illegitimate birth rate was 8%. Today, that rate is over 40%!
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ray with me that God in His gracious providence will give North America, the United
States and Canada, a new Great Awakening! As I write these words, Barbara and I are celebrating the 52nd anniversary of our pilgrimage across the Atlantic to a land we had never seen before. As I reflect on these last 52 years and as I travel through our ARP Church, I am stunned at the
The response to this crisis by our society is not a renewed emphasis on moral education but easier abortion. In 1967, abortion was illegal in both Canada and the USA. Today, it is North America’s most practiced form of birth control. In 2015, more than 638,000 USA babies—many of them children of unmarried mothers—were aborted. That’s 1,748 abortions every day! In Canada, ap- proximately 95,000 babies are aborted each year. Seventy-thousand Americans die each year because of drug overdoses. (Per-
spective: We lost 58,300 young people in the Vietnam war!) Society’s response to the drug crisis is to set up injection sites! Canada’s Public Health Agency reports that out of a population of 37.5 million people, about 6,000 people die from drug overdoses each year! U.S. Census Bureau statistics say that more than one in four American
children comes from a broken family. Approximately three in ten Canadian children live similarly. Experience demonstrates well the long-term negative impact on children from such homes. The government’s answer? Increased welfare benefits!
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Moderator’s Challenge
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