Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Below is the conclusion of "The Ultimate Doom of Evil," a sermon that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered at Central United Methodist Church on March 20, 1964:

"And so when days become dark and nights become dreary and we go through those moment of the chilly winds of adversity blowing all around us and are forced to stand amid the surging water of life's restless sea, gain consolation from the fact that there is a God in this universe who is able to lift us from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace. This is our faith, and this is our hope, and this is what can keep us going in difficult and frustrating days. 'Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither like the green herb.' 'Trust in the Lord and do good, and He will give thee the desires of thine heart.' And now unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before our Father's throne, to him be power and authority, majesty and dominion now, henceforth and forevermore, world without end. Amen."