A Knock at Midnight
Chapter One
Rediscovering Lost Values
I want you to think with me this morning from the subject:
"Rediscovering Lost Values." There is something wrong with our
world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we
have to look too far to see that. I'm sure that most of you would
agree with me in making that assertion. And when we stop to analyze
the cause of our world's ills, many things come to mind.
We begin to wonder if it is due to the fact that we don't know
enough. But it can't be that. Because in terms of accumulated
knowledge we know more today than men have known in any period of
human history. We have the facts at our disposal. We know more about
mathematics, about science, about social science, and philosophy
than we've ever known in any period of the world's history. So it
can't be because we don't know enough.
And then we wonder if it is due to the fact that our scientific
genius lags behind. That is, if we have not made enough progress
scientifically. Well then, it can't be that. For our scientific
progress over the past years ha ... read full excerpt from A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. ebook
