WHAT IT TO BE DONE?

In his book, Civil War America, author Paul Johnson says of Abraham Lincoln, “The state of America caused him anguish.”  He quotes Lincoln as saying “Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.” What would Lincoln have to say about the state of America and “our progress in degeneracy” now? Lincoln later wrote to a friend:

“How hard it is to die, and leave one’s country no better than if one had never lived for it! The world is dead to hope, deaf to its own death-struggle. One made known by a universal cry, what is to be done? Is anything to be done? Who can do anything And how is it to be done? Do you never think of these things?”

What is to be done — anything to be done — about our "progress in degeneracy? What this "dead-to-hope," "deaf-to-its-own-death-struggle" world needs is what it has always needed: the soul-saving, life-changing, world up-righting Gospel of Jesus Christ, the “blessed hope” (Tit. 2:13). The who and how, the people and plan, for this has never changed:

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world’ (Matt 28:19, 20). See 2 Chron. 7:14, Matt. 5:16, Luke 9:23, and 2 Cor. 5:7.