| "The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life; | | | | In the face of these shortcomings how can we |
| but violence covereth the mouth of the | | | | put our faith in its capacity to attain an "enduring" |
| wicked.Hatred strirreth up strifes; but love | | | | world peace? |
| covereth all sins".( Prov. 10:11-12 ) | | | | The only hope is "to yield" to the task of working |
| Respected members of the board of judges, my | | | | for the greatest good. Abstain from the vile |
| fellow orators,friends,ladies and gentlemen: | | | | temptation of greed for power and |
| Picture in your mind the building of the Tower of | | | | supremacy,envy and pride for material gain. Every |
| Babel of Biblical times. Reflect for a moment the | | | | nation, every individual should endeavor to attain |
| frenzied activities of a group of men,possessed | | | | the much higher and nobler strata of human order |
| with an obsession of great engineering power and | | | | through LOVE that gives way to peace and |
| skill,clumsily groping for a way to understand each | | | | goodwill toward all men. |
| other so they can succed in building a gigantic | | | | Remember the purity of love given to us |
| edifice that shall link their lowly Earth to God's | | | | thousands of years ago? It was heaven-sent |
| Heavenly Abode. The men and their overly | | | | through the Babe of Bethlehem. In its sublime |
| ambitious plans failed to materialize simply because | | | | meaning it is an offering of peace and goowill, a |
| man has an innate fear of his fellowmen--a fear | | | | demonstration of honesty of purpose, a tenderly |
| that grows out of his own selfish ambitions and | | | | forgiving nature of those who deserve |
| pride. These men of Babel were not honest with | | | | forgiveness, and an instrument to overcome the |
| themselves and sincere in their efforts to | | | | barriers to unity. |
| understand and coordinate in realizing the great | | | | What then is love? When I was a girl, I throught |
| task, the idealistic Tower that is worthy of their | | | | love was my obedience to my parents and my |
| inspired goal. | | | | ardent desire to please them. Then as a young |
| I would not like to compare the efforts of our | | | | lady, I thought it was happiness,contentment,and |
| goverment institutions and even the internationally | | | | everything that is pleasant. Now I know,these are |
| acclaimed organizations of nations with the vain | | | | but the trimmings of the real thing: loving one |
| attempts to construct a Tower of Babel. But I | | | | another. |
| wish to point out the "Babel of differences" that | | | | If there is love it banishes fear of everything that |
| keep our political leaders, our national and | | | | is ungodly; to the missionary who disregarded the |
| international organizations in an unhealthy state of | | | | comforts of life and faces unafraid the inevitable, |
| tension,for the relationships that they keep among | | | | love opens a new horizon of happiness and |
| themselves is but "apparent"----- dictated more | | | | contentment, a new way of life in the wilderness |
| by the necessity of self-preservation than by a | | | | of the African jungles,among the Congolese |
| sincere gesture of symbiosis-more like the wild | | | | people or in the hinterlands of Mindanao. |
| animals of the forest that warily watch each | | | | Love makes the difference. It separates those |
| other and wait and hope that in some unguarded | | | | who are saved from those who are lost. It is the |
| moment, one of them would drop its guard and | | | | passport to Peace of the world, to the eternal life |
| fall an easy prey to their killing instincts. | | | | and kind deeds we shall never have peace and |
| The United Nations, for example, organized from | | | | happiness. |
| the shadow of the defunct League of Nations, is | | | | Let the talk of love silence the debates that |
| composed of nations nurtured in different | | | | endanger unity,put futile the plan of aggression |
| customs,traditions,and religions, fostering different | | | | and make war a thing of the past. |
| ideologies, idiosyncracies and school of thoughts. | | | | Let us then talk of love until every individual shall |
| And the men representing the different nations, | | | | have a share of its sublime meaning, until every |
| possess different idealism and | | | | family shall feel its wonderful warmth, until all the |
| shrewdness-something that keeps them | | | | people in the community and the nation shall keep |
| unbending and even indecisive in the face of | | | | it as their guideposts for action,and untill the entire |
| rivalries and endless debates, proud of their | | | | world shall make it as its way of life. |
| power,callous in their quest for material gain and | | | | Love one another! Be kind to one another. Be |
| unreasonable with their greed. Thus, in the 1960's | | | | forgiving to one another. Be tenderhearted to |
| the 11 nation security council of UN failed to reach | | | | one another. Be thoughtful to one another's needs. |
| a solution to the seroius problems of | | | | Forget one another's fault. |
| Congo-then in disarray of bloodshed and chaos. | | | | Is this too much to ask for the sake of peace? |