TIME OF CRISIS - MARTIN CARTER

The year that lies before us will be a year of heart searchings, a year of doubt and perplexity, a year in which each one of us will question himself in secret, studying whether the path of life we now tread is the right one or whether a wrong one. In the midst of all the turmoil and confusion, there will be some who will repudiate past activities, some who will say in an hour of fear that the road that they have been walking is the wrong one because at the given moment all is dark and dreary and apparently hopeless.

In such times it becomes necessary for us to understand ourselves, the world we live in, the people we live among and the problems we must solve. At such times, ideas and emotion become inflammable. And it is as such times that our fundamental outlook on life, the means we employ of measuring and assessing events and occurrences, either assist us or betray us…. 

For everyday brings some new event, some new development in the life of the community. And every new event or development requires an adjustment in thought. So from day to day ideas must change, old feelings must die away, new feelings must emerge, new ideas must be born. And to keep the mind clear and sharp in the swarm of things becomes difficult.