A great time to be alive : sermons on Christianity in wartime / by Harry Emerson Fosdick.

"First edition."

A great time to be alive -- Decisive battles behind closed doors -- Righteousness first -- The field is the world -- Spiritual foundations for a better world -- Getting the best out of the worst -- The common sense wisdom of Christianity -- Taking Jesus seriously -- A kind of Penitence that does some good -- Chrisitianity not a form but a force -- Our world confronts a child -- On being strongly tempted to be Christian -- Starting with trouble and ending with hope -- On believing in miracles -- Loyalty, the basic condition of liberty -- A time to stress unity -- Worshiping the gods of a beaten enemy -- Why is God silent while evil rages? -- No dry-as-dust religion will do now -- Keeping faith in persuasion in a world of coercion -- When life reaches its depths -- After forty years int he ministry -- The light that no darkness can put out -- Facing life's central test -- The deathless hope that man cannot escape.