Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Plough Quarterly • Summer  a healthy district. And when we came to fetch her, she refused to leave her old room for the new one; she had become so accustomed to her appalling surround- ings. Isn’t this incredible? But let us examine ourselves. Are we any different? We have grown accus- tomed to the curse of property, of isolation, of a fragmented life. We must wake up and hear the gospel which will make us free from the curse of a life without the Spirit and without God. Let us turn our gaze to nature in order to recover from these shocking pic- tures. From a purely natural point of view, what does life consist of? We live from the sun, the air, water, and the treasures of the soil. We live by our own working strength, utilizing these forces of nature through the exertion of our body and spirit. To whom is the sun given? It is given to all–to everyone without excep- tion. If there is anything that people do have in common, it is the gift of the sun. (To be sure, there are people who live a shadowy existence, but they would do well to come out into the sunlight!) The sixteenth-century Hutterites say in their writings: If the sun were not hung so high, people would long ago have claimed it as their own–to the detri- ment of everyone else, who would no longer be able to see it. The will to possess, to take for yourself things that do not belong to you, would not even stop at the sun. Fortunately, though, the sun is hung up too high!3 What about the air? In part, it is already bought and sold. Don’t health resorts charge for their good air? Even so, the air does not belong to them. What about 3. Peter Walpot, Das grosse Artikelbuch, Neumühl, Moravia, 1577, in Glaubenszeugnisse oberdeutscher Taufgesinnter, Bd.2, ed. Robert Friedmann, (Gütersloh, 1967), 231ff. Wassily Kandinsky, Landscape with Chimneys, oil on canvas (1910), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Photograph: akg-images © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York