Since the Torrey Honors Institute was started about fifty years after the defeat of the vile Hitler regime, how was this possible?
Today, travel on the London Tubes was snarled by an active World War II bomb.
The overcrowding was bad . . . and service in some places stalled or nonexistent. As war-time suffering this is not much, but it is a direct result of World War II. London is still dealing with the massive bombing of the city and areas around it. Hitler wanted to kill civilians in London and today his evil kept ticking, literally, according to lurid tabloid headlines.
It reminded me how not-long-ago World War II really is. Plenty of people are alive who fought in it . . . though their numbers decline daily. Our little inconvenience today was unimportant of course relative to the painful memories still haunting millions around the world. World War II is not simply “over.”
The vile evil of fascism, which only Communism could hope to match, did not disappear when Hitler was stopped. In Russia, World War II memorials still celebrate the War as lasting from 1941 to 1945 forgetting that the Soviet Union got in the War earlier, suffered casualties, and spent millions of rubles on Hitler’s side.
Lies from the War continue.
The importance of history has never been more obvious. The double headed eagles, and memories of Tsarist Russia, have appeared all over Russia. Empty thrones have been placed in churches in both of the nations great cities.
Each golden eagle is a direct influence of Byzantium, ancient Christian Rome, on the world today.
In Britain, the monarch had a mother held by Victoria who knew Wellington who defeated Napoleon . . . most of American history spanned by the memories of three women. One Britain celebrated his birthday today who was born under Victoria, fought in World War I, and has lived to be mentioned in a blog post, perhaps not the greatest thrill of his wonderful life.
Christianity is unpopular at the moment in Britain, but when this very day, Hope and I can turn, in the heart of an urban area, into a lovely church (Saint Edmund) and buy a Book of Common Prayer, chatting with a lovely worker full of charity and knowledge, and pray at a consecrated altar, the influence of Augustine of Canterbury and of Jesus Christ his Lord will continue for some time.
Bombs are still ticking from World War II, but the Holy Spirit of Pentecost is burning in the hearts of men and women even in post-Christian Britain. The music of a great and pious man, Bach, was played beautifully last night at Saint Martin in the Fields.
Yesterday’s destruction.
Ancient charity.
The evil men do live on, but the Good never dies with them, because it was not merely men who did it. They were inspired to do good deeds by the Living God. He goes on empowering their good, and slowly redeeming the evil in the backwards redemption of Love.
Some day the last of Hitler’s bombs will be defused, but the charity unleashed at the birth of Jesus will never end.