CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS - WHO WILL RESECUE THE COLONIES7

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Voice of the Editor
The Marxian Trend
O VERRIDING the President's veto, Congress has
voted a 7 percent pay increase for one and one-
half million federal employees. This adds more than $750
million to the federal budget every year. Moreover, it
comes on top of a 10 percent increase for these workers
just two years ago.
It has long been the custom of Congress to appropri-
ate large sums for a great variety of "pork barrel" proj-
ects before election. To this destructive practice has now
been added the biennial increases in pay for Civil Serv-
ice workers and welfare handouts for Social Security
beneficiaries and numerous other segments of our popu-
lation.
Those who have not yet found places on this gravy-
train are spurred on to demand increases for themselves.
Their pleas appeal to the sense of justice of the American
people and are granted. Soon we come full circle and
the groups getting the first raises demand the second
installment and the spiral continues upward.
We have become a nation of thieves wherein our citi-
zenry align themselves in a vast number of pressure
groups each striving to see how much it can get from the
public purse. There is no foreseeable end to this practice
short of ruinous inflation and bankruptcy. The longer it
goes on, the harder it is to stop and it has already been
gathering momentui.i for many years.
The real danger to America is not external but lies
rather in covetousness and the now well-organized effort
to increase one's income at the expense of his fellows.
When government has the power to take money from
some and give it to others it becomes the victim of the
stronger pressure groups and the attention of the coun-
try is more and more focused on obtaining wealth from
others rather than the creation of new wealth. In time
that process will decapitalize us and reduce us toward a
basis of equality wherein gifted men and women are not
rewarded in proportion to their exceptional abilities.
Their efforts will decline accordingly, and we shall all be
much poorer as the result thereof.
No society can long endure which denies to its ex-
ceptionally creative people sufficient reward to stimulate
them to their best endeavors.
Regarding federal employees it should be said more-
over that their work is steady; they are not in danger of
layoffs; vacations are generous and fringe benefits of
various kinds considerably above the level of these avail-
able for other workers. In view of these facts and in fur-
ther view of the very significant ? fact that every effort
should be made to discourage the growth of bureaucracy,
public employees should receive rather less than the nor-
mal scale available to private employees. If they should
feel aggrieved by reason of this fact, the remedy is
always to seek employment in privately owned industry
or in the professions and as managers of small businesses.
No one is compelled to work for government and if he
chooses to do so, should be willing to accept some dis-
advantages in return for greater security and other bene-
fits mentioned above.
There is rarely any lack of applicants for public posi-
tions. Such jobs are very popular and offer many bene-
fits. Remuneration therefore, may very properly be
somewhat lower than for non-government workers. No
one has a moral right, it seems to us, to accept a job
which offers many advantages and then seek to bludgeon
his fellows into paying him just as much as he might earn
in a non-government job with less satisfactory working
conditions and less generous fringe benefits.
The only just basis of determining remuneration for
any worker, is the free market wherein his fellows bid
for the goods he produces or the service he renders. What-
ever they are willing to pay is the just and proper wage
for him to receive. That is the only system which enables
each worker to receive all he can fairly earn. It rewards
the exceptional man in proportion to his production and
it rewards the thrifty, hardworking man in proportion to
the effort he puts forth. It enables all men to work hard
or take life easier while being justly paid for what they
contribute to the common weal.
Under this system men cooperate freely to satisfy
each other's needs and wants. Manpower is channeled
into the making of such goods and the rendering of such
services as are most in demand and most desired by the
people. This adds to the well-being of all. Under this
system, men develop their self-reliance, remain inde-
pendent and learn to cooperate voluntarily with one an-
other to the mutual benefit of all concerned. They depend
upon themselves and not upon government. There is less
temptation to covet and little opportunity to profit
thereby. They quickly learn to devote their energies to
producing more wealth rather than concocting schemes
to get some of the wealth produced by others.
There are two choices before the American people.
We may return to the free market economy or go deeper
and deeper into socialism leading eventually to totali-
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U H RISTIAN
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Who Will Rescue the Colonies?
LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, Coordinator of Information, U. S. House of Representatives
HO WILL finance the newly independent na-
tions now springing to life throughout Asia and
Africa?
Nineteenth Century colonialism is dead and gone, yet
news dispatches from the Congo recount the emergence
of primitive savagery over large areas which had been
moving prudently toward civilization for almost a
century.
During 1960, no less than 14 new African states
carrying a combined population of 80 millions, will as-
sume their place in the United Nations as self-governing
independent nations. But nowhere in that stricken area
is there a cultural foundation adequate to support law
and order, the historical cornerstones of freedom under
law.
The Communist campaign of defamation and hatred
against Western colonial administration has been un-
relenting for 42 years.
After 1918 colony suddenly became a bad word over
vast reaches of the earth-a term of opprobrium and irra-
tional hatred. Colonialism became it slogan of fanatical
violence against British, American, Dutch, German,
Portuguese, and Japanese development enterprises the
world around.
Vast areas of the world achieved a chimerical inde-
pendence; and more than 800,000,000 people who long
had been independent and sovereign in their own lands
passed into Communist slavery-all because they took up
Moscow's angry cry against colonialism.
The world around today, statesmen and scholars are
searching for a new evaluation of colonial history since
the Industrial Revolution. The classical Marxian doc-
trine no longer holds water. For contemporary history
has demonstrated clearly that primitive areas and un-
developed societies still are dependent upon the larger,
stronger, and more mature nations for capital assistance
in their national development.
Viewed in historical perspective, the Leninist rage
against colonialism has plunged millions of progressive
colonials into abysmal economic dislocations, while at
the same time throwing hundreds of millions of once free
peoples into the hopeless snakepit of Communist slavery.
So the basic problems of colonial relationships still
demand solution.
A starting point well might be the historical fact that
the Communist war on colonialism thus far has served
communism far better than it has served the aspirations
of freedom. In short, the world gulped down the Com-
munist slogans against colonies, only to realize after Yalta
in 1945, that colonies still are dependent economically,
whatever their political status.
Capital has a real function in national development,
and we do not escape the underlying economic realities
of colonial relations merely by parroting the Kremlin
slogans of hate and vituperation against investor nations.
The tragedy of Africa today is the whole ripe fruit
of the Leninist doctrine of poisonous hatred. India, with
some $8 billion of United States' aid already devoured
in twelve years of independence, wobbles precariously on
the brink of communism. Indonesia, after fifteen years
of paper independence, still is a political and economic
quagmire. By destroying old colonial ties with Europe,
Kremlin policy now has given communism a firm toe-
hold in all of Indonesia. If this cycle runs its historic
course, the people of Indonesia simply will have traded
Dutch colonialism for Communist slavery. Who won on
that deal?
A fanatical will to theoretical independence appar-
ently is not enough to sustain a new nation in the Twen-
tieth Century. Several of the new nations of the Twentieth
Century, as it now turns out, simply flopped out of the
frying pan into the fire-trading British, French, German,
Dutch, Italian, or Japanese colonial assistance for a lesser
amount of semantic assistance from Moscow. In this
process, several weaker nations have lost their identity,
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Howard E. Kershner, Editor
George H. Cless, Jr., Managing Editor
I. E. Howard, Assistant Editor
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Voice of the Editor (Continued)
tarian government and the loss of our freedom. We are
headed in this latter direction and we are increasing our
pace from a walk to a trot. Soon it will be a gallop. No
wonder Khrushchev talks about peace. Why would he
fight when we are hastening pell-mell toward his Marxian
ideals?
Our Fatal Delusion
THE RECENT COMMUNIST conference in Bucha-
rest, Rumania, frankly acknowledged "the possibility
of the working class gaining a victory for the Socialist
revolution by non-peaceful means." This highlights the
fact that Khrushchev's oft reiterated demand for "peace-
ful coexistence" is a mere tactic by which he hopes to gain
advantage over the West by allaying our fears and reduc-
ing our will to resist.
The greatest obstacle to our winning of the cold war
is the failure to recognize that the Communists are play.
ing for keeps. All their manepvering, pleas for coexist-
ence, summit conferences, disarmament agreements and
all the rest are merely the tactics they employ in their
effort to destroy us.
Until the American people come to a clear realiza-
tion that their only hope of survival as a free people is to
win the cold war we shall continue to lose ground. Every
subject of discussion between the Communists and our-
selves relates to some compromise by which we give up
something. The guiding principle of the Communists.is
to give up nothing and take as much as they can. We,
apparently, are still guided by the thought that by giving
up something or making some compromise we can win
peace. That is a fundamental error which has dominated
Western policy. We are insulted, demeaned, abused, im-
posed upon, our property seized and our citizens held in
prison camps; yet we do no more than make a pious pro-
test and consider some further concession in the hope
that the enemy will then be satisfied and willing to live
in peace with us.
No one can win every defensive action; therefore,
defensive strategy leads eventually to defeat. If we do
not win the cold war, we shall lose our independent ex-
istence. An aggressive enemy proceeds against us on all
fronts until he encounters solid resistance. Then, he stops.
Out comes the glad hand and he speaks of peace and
friendship. When we relax in the hope that stability has
at last been achieved the enemy again becomes aggressive
and advances as far as our soft appeasement policy will
allow. When he encounters resistance he again stops and
proclaims his peaceful intentions until we are lulled to
sleep and he feels he can impose further aggression upon
us before we are once more aroused to the point of
resistance.
This step by step process has gone on in many ways
and on many fronts. It has cost us much treasure, millions
of lives and vast territories in Eastern Europe, Asia,
Africa and even in the Western hemisphere. We have but
to continue the same policy a little longer and the curtain
will be rung down on Western civilization, ushering in
another long period of tyranny, cruelty and suffering.
But this need not be-we are far stronger than we
think and the enemy is far weaker than we think. If we
would once face up to the fact that freedom and righteous-
ness, independence and national honor are more impor-
tant than peace, we would preserve both. By vacillation,
weakness, irresolution, appeasement and compromise we
shall never attain peace but only ready ourselves for
the kill.
The Dangerous Spiral
AMERICAN MARKETS are being flooded with a
wide variety of merchandise from abroad. Domes-
tic producers are being undersold by foreign competitors
in many lines in which we have heretofore excelled. Some
of these are shoes, clothing, automobiles, typewriters,
sewing machines, cameras, business machines, cement,
machine tools, brass sheets and tubing, oil pipe, barbed
wire, and steel.
The basic reason for this is the wage-price spiral
which, in many cases, has more than offset the gains from
increasing efficiency.
A further rise in wages and prices will bring a new
flood of goods from Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and
other countries. This, of course, will bring unemployment
upon us.
It will also bring pressure for higher tariffs which will
in turn reduce our export markets and cause further un-
employment. This result might be avoided temporarily
by devaluation of the dollar or more inflation, but this
would increase rather than diminish our troubles. We
cannot continue to price ourselves out of the market and
remain prosperous.
The only answer is to refrain from further wage and
price increases except;thtvse that can be, justified by in-,
creased man-hour output. Even this will not suffice to
rescue us from our precarious position but we must have,
in addition, less footdragging, less featherbedding, less
wastefulness and more cooperation all around to retain
our competitive position in the world.
It does not help to remind ourselves that we have
brought this situation upon ourselves by the flood of dol-
lars we have sent abroad to equip many foreign producers
with more modern machines than many of our own man-
ufacturers are using. We have done that. We cannot undo
it and we will have to meet the competition which we
have financed. We must stop waste and work harder than
we have ever worked before.
A concomitant of this situation is our growing dollar
obligations to foreigners. These now exceed $19 billion,
a sum approximately equal to our gold reserves. In the
event of some crisis, a run on our dollars by foreign indi-
viduals and governments seeking to withdraw their bal-
ances, would be most embarrassing.
The situation can be met by increasing our exports
and decreasing our imports but we cannot do either un-
less the wage-price spiral is stabilized. Two other proce-
dures, cutting foreign aid and restricting American travel
abroad would swing the pendulum in the right direction
but large numbers of our people regard foreign aid, both
economic and military, as essential and many Americans
would consider it a great hardship to be restricted in their
foreign travel. Nevertheless, this problem must be solved
if we are to retain our commercial standing, our high
standard of living and our ability to be helpful to the
people of other countries. We believe the solution lies in
some workable combination of the above suggestions.
Refugee Year
REFUGEE YEAR PASSED into history but the prob-
lem remains. Over 21 years ago the Editor witnessed
the first great movement of refugees in modern times
when half a million Spaniards crossed from Spain into
southern France. They filled the roadways and darkened
the fields and hills as they trudged along the countryside.
Six months later, half a million Frenchmen living near
the German border to the eastward were evacuated to
the southern and western part of France-a second layer
of suffering superimposed on the first one already there.
After another short interval, in the spring of 1940,
when the Germans invaded the Low Countries and north-
ern France, we witnessed the great southward rush of five
million Belgian and French refugees. It seemed that the
whole country was on the move. One might see a family
group camped under a tree or in an orchard with an ill
member who could not go farther. Or another group so
exhausted from lack of food that they could not continue.
This vast stream of humanity crowded all the trains,
filled the buses, overflowed the automobiles and oxcarts
while the greater number, heavily burdened with their
belongings, staggered through the fields in order to avoid
the clogged roadways. Generous French peasants shared
with them, often to the last reserves in their households.
We saw many of the nearly half a million Finns who
left the part of their country annexed by Russia and went
to live in other parts of Finland. They had the choice of
retaining their homes and property and becoming Rus-
sian citizens or leaving with only such belongings as they
could carry in their hands. Eighteen Finns chose to be-
come Russian citizens and all the others left with nothing.
One of the most cruel movements of people was the
Communist depopulation of the Baltic countries Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania. Large numbers of these fine people
were sent into slavery in Siberia.
Later the Sudeten Germans were ousted and at the
close of the war some 12 million Poles and East Germans
trudged westward through bitter cold and often with very
little food.
Nearly one.. million Arabs were driven-out or fright-
ened out of their ancestral homes in Palestine when the
nation of Israel was founded. Millions of North Koreans
sought refuge in South Korea as did millions of North
Vietnamese in the southern part of that country. Other
millions were exchanged between India and Pakistan
when one country became two in that unhappy land.
Authoritarian governments exercise the power of
throwing vast numbers of helpless human beings about
as if they were less than cattle. None of these people chose
to leave their homes and endure unspeakable hardship
but it was the will of their masters, the tyrants who gained
control over them, that forced them into their bitter fate.
People are pretty decent wherever you find them - all
races, religions and nationalities-but the evil wrought by
their rulers who gain power over them through the organ-
ization of government is despicable beyond portrayal in
words. It has resulted in death for many millions, freezing
and starvation for tens of millions, separation of families,
loss of loved ones, breaking of human ties and indescrib-
able misery for vast numbers of human beings.
Every man of decency and goodwill will pray and
work and, if need be, fight to stop the inhuman system of
creating more and more refugees. All who can will wish
to contribute as generously as possible toward relieving
the suffering of these displaced persons and, above all,
toward stopping the system of tyrannous government
which caused their suffering.
The Biggest Shovel THE REV. PHILIP JEROME CLEVELAND, [.e Raysr?ille, Pena.,Yhania
S OME TIME ago I faced the real prob-
lem of how to serve six churches and
on a salary of forty dollars a week.
Three teen-aged youngsters interested
me in a crumbling white shrine forty miles
away in the woodlands of eastern Con-
necticut. This engagement led to another
and another until I had developed a circuit
of preaching appointments.
Was it not a gamble of faith to take
over the care and nurture of six rural sanc-
tuaries without appreciable salary? Some
friends thought I was losing my mind.
"I will put God in my debt," I said to
myself.
As I commenced to work with these di-
lapidated churches, friends started to ar-
rive from here, there and everywhere. A
steeplejack volunteered to repair the bel-
fry of the main shrine. Folks offered to do
the work of janitor in various churches;
neighbors donated Bibles. hymnals, fuel.
Money came in for paint and clapboards.
Romance and wonder really entered
into the bright adventure.
Day after day I started the car and went
forth on humble missions in an endeavor
to recommission for service some old ships
of Zion, in scorn of consequences. And,
to and behold, my meagre funds failed to
run out; rather, ran in, and kept on run-
ning in.
It seemed as though Someone was put-
ting me in His debt. My personal affairs
flourished, magazine sales, weddings,
christenings. Even a great Japanese
preacher came from Tokyo to aid me with
my New England parishes. And I com-
menced to have the time of my life!
"I cannot put God in my debt!"
These words thundered at me as new
doors of opportunity opened and honors
and blessings came to my central sanctuary
in Canterbury, Connecticut-the Church
of the Broken Bell. That forty dollar sum
unwound as by a fairy wand into another
forty and on and on.
My steeplejack said to me one day as
new work commenced to pile up on him:
"What's this all about? While I do
Another's work Another takes over my
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affairs and I can't fill the engagements!"
A sweet, mild, aged lady in the church,
a grandmother wrestling with the prob-
lems of two exhausting grandchildren,
caught the urge to help me recommission
these old ships of Zion. She began to place
dollar bills in every faded collection plate
or basket passed her way.
"My dollars go farther at home," she
was admitting shortly. "We don't need
the doctor. I seem to get better bargains
at the stores. The dollars are holding out
magically!"
Then, one memorable day, I knew the
secret. I learned about a man in Philadel-
phia-Captain Levy.
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THE SERMONETTE-The Spirit of Man
"The spirit of a man will sustain his
infirmity; but a wounded spirit who
can bear?" (Prov. 18:14)
ONE MAY lose his eyes, his hearing or
his voice, or all three, and still be use-
ful and successful. One may lose his hands,
his feet, or both, and still do useful work
and be a credit to his family and his
country. One may lose his health and suf-
fer all his life and still be a great musician,
a poet, an artist or a statesman.
No one has ever written sweeter music
than Beethoven who could not hear. No
one perceived more clearly the beauties of
nature than Milton who could not see.
Blind men have achieved fame as lawyers,
Senators, educators and ministers. One can
overcome almost any handicap if he re-
tains his spirit. If his spirit falters, even
though he may have a strong and perfect
body, he will accomplish nothing.
That which strengthens, emboldens and
ennobles the spirit of man, improves so-
ciety and carries the world forward toward
its goal of better, finer and more righteous
living.
Poverty is no disgrace and scarcely a
handicap to the courageous of spirit. If
men develop their self-reliance by meeting
and solving the problems that present
themselves, they achieve great strength,
integrity and force of character. They dem-
onstrate the fact that they were created in
the image of God. They achieve the po-
tential given them by the Creator.
On the other hand, when men become
accustomed to living from subsidies, boun-
ties, long-continued charity or any means
of sustaining themselves by the effort of
others, they lose confidence, integrity,
courage, initiative and independence. The
soul grows smaller and the spirit withers
as one seeks more and more to cast the
burden of his life upon his neighbors, the
taxpayers. Herein lies the soul-destroying
evil inherent in any type of collectivism,
call it socialism, fascism, communism or
welfare statism.
All of these ideologies teach men that
they are not captains of their own souls,
that they are not custodians of their own
weal or woe but that they are meant to be
groveling creatures forever pleading with
Who Will Rescue the Colonies? (Continued from page 1)
perhaps forever; and several others totter precariously
today on the brink of total absorption by communism.
One of these latter, Cuba, is actively inviting Communist
intervention, while vehemently cursing sixty years of
U. S. cooperation and sympathetic cultural assistance.
Moscow today is the seat of the most oppressive and
degrading colonial empire in all human history. Com-
munist imperialism is plundering and debilitating in a
measure which no power in the West would have toler-
ated for thirty days in its pre-war colonial relations. Over
a span of forty years, Western colonialism has been
damned systematically to everlasting shame, only to be
replaced, in many instances, by a far more degrading
and humiliating system of Communist colonialism, now
styled "Peoples' Democracy."
The day is not far distant when the stronger nations,
probably united in the effort, will be compelled to rescue
hundreds-of-millions of people from starvation and
chaos. The insistent pressures of the world's population
,explosion today compel leaders of all races to dig deep
below the surface of revolutionary semantics for an hon-
est reappraisal of Nineteenth Century colonialism.
The'Lenin-School of Tactics In Moscow is the foun-
tainhead of the Twentieth Century's insensate rage
against colonialism. The curriculum of the Lenin Insti-
tute, as of 1944, when Russia was our esteemed ally,
carried these study directives:
"(1) Imperialism is interpreted to suit the stra-
tegical purpose of organizing rebellion in the
colonies against England, France, Japan, and to
subvert Latin America against the United States.
"(2) Theory of independence of small nations
is strategically utilized to create as much division
as possible in non-Russian Europe and elsewhere.
"(3) Theory of inevitable decay and collapse
of empires to create faith in the sure victories of
national independence movements under Russian
inspiration, and attract them within the orbit of
Russian politics.... Dismemberment and exhaus-
tion of empires aimed at without regard to conse-
quences to populations involved."
Such has been the central purpose of the Lenin Insti-
tute since 1920 - world-wide, unrelenting propaganda
warfare against all colonial relations.
Forty years of this Communist-directed independence
movement has not given a single colony genuine inde-
pendence. Each is still a dependent nation, several of
them tottering on the very brink of total communism.
And the Lenin Institute, now called Moscow's Academy
The Biggest Shovel
He possessed a little money and was
continually doing good with his modest
income. He was always giving money
away and yet he always had a little. How
was that?
A friend asked him to reveal how he
could be donating to charities, month to
month, and yet he always had something
for the next month.
The shrewd, aging captain grinned,
winked an eye and replied:
"Well, you see, it's this way. As I shovel
out, the Lord shovels in, and the Lord's
got the biggest shovel !"
of World Revolution, still trains 5,000 students a year
from Asia, Africa, and Latin American nations in the
tactics of colonial dismemberment. In this student body,
approximately 1400 are native African Communists;
1200 are from Arab countries of the Middle East; 230
are from Latin America, and the rest from China, Japan,
Korea, and Southeast Asia. These are the hard-core Com-
munist leaders of the anti-colonial crusade the world
around as of 1962, and beyond.
All this incorrigible fury against colonialism, so ex-
pertly organized and manipulated since 1918, is distrib-
uted worldwide through formal Communist Party affili-
ates of the Kremlin in sixty-two different countries-18
in Europe; 20 in Latin America; 10 in Southeast Asia; 10
in Africa and the Middle East; and 1 each in Canada,
the U.S.A., Australia, and New Zealand. The sun never
sets on Moscow's belching hell-fire for independence.
In the Lenin theory each newly independent nation
is a lively prospect for early economic exhaustion, and
then rescue by Russia, to be incorporated in the new
complex of Communist imperialism as a full-fledged sat-
ellite. Such are the real motivations of Moscow's bleeding-
heart?freedom campaign-for the colonies. -- - , -
In every age of history there have been contemporary
nations at different levels of national development. Be-
fore communism began to call the tune in the 1920's, the
strong nations assisted the weak; and the weak gradually
became stronger-and eventually free.
Today, that entire concept of history has been blacked
out by a world smog of hateful propaganda against co-
lonialism. True, the inspirations of freedom are real, and
they are rooted deep in human instinct. Freedom can,
and does, accomplish miracles.
But human society does not advance sure-footedly
only on slogans of hatred and humiliation against older
and more deeply rooted cultures. There are still many
things primitive nations might learn from the cultural
centers of civilization. Individuals grow strong in youth
under the wise tutelage of their elders. Young nations
likewise grow in strength and wisdom under the guidance
of experience and superior strength. Nations, like chil-
dren, must crawl before they walk, and must walk before
they run.
In our search for human advance, let us look dispas-
sionately at the true history of Western Colonialism. Too
much of the world's sorry history during the last half-
century has turned upon the distorted concept of colonial-
ism drawn by the Marxian hatemongers of the Kremlin.
Hatred never can knit the political and social fabrics
of human progress.
This Is the Challenge . .
A UNIQUE venture in public service in
the interest of national welfare was
launched by The Champion Paper and
Fibre Company of Hamilton, Ohio, when
it brought out a publication entitled,
VIEW 1-The War We Are In, which is
the first in a series devoted to views of
subjects that are basic to our times.
The theme of the text stems from the
doctrine of protracted war as spelled out
by Mao Tse-Tung in a series of lectures
delivered in 1938 when he was hailed as
a simple "agrarian reformer" in spite of
his words which showed him to be a mas-
ter military strategist and ruthless dictator.
There is a "crossroad of divergence in
stronger men who exercise the authority
of government for bigger and better hand-
outs of ever increasing variety.
Such men may have strong, healthy
bodies but, having lost their spirit, the
image of God dies within them and they
become leaners and not lifters. They be-
come a part of the problem and not a part
of the answer.
That which ministers to the courage,
bravery and independence of man is from
God and that which teaches him to obtain
as much as possible of his living from the
labor of others is from Satan.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul is an ideol-
ogy developed by the prince of the pow-
ers of darkness for destroying the souls
of men.
Reality of a Moral Law
MERE CHRISTIANITY. By C. S. Lewis. The Macmil-
lan Company. 1960. 175 pp. Paper, $1.25.
THIS September, Macmillan is bringing out a paper-
back edition of a popular book which has been on the
market for several years. This book, Mere Christianity,
is a defense of orthodox Christianity and it brings apolo-
getics down to the man in the street in the form of friendly
conversations. It is never dull or stilted.
The author, C. S. Lewis, is an orthodox Anglican. He
begins his argument by establishing the reality of a Moral
Law which is a good place to begin. The drift toward
socialism in the West has at least one root in the denial
of a Moral Law.
Lewis concludes with a defense of the Trinity which
is a good climax because the political issue now facing
the West is bound up with what man believes about the
nature of the universe. Furthermore, there is a clear se-
quence from loss of faith in Christ to loss of faith in the
doctrine of the Trinity to loss of faith in God to loss of
faith in moral values and to the revolution of nihilism.
So has run the sad story of the West in the last half
century.
It-i& to be hoped-that the paperback edition of Mere
Christianity will result in a much wider circulation of
this persuasive book. Rev. 1. E. Howard
Urgent Reading
DARE WE RECOGNIZE RED CHINA? By Dick Hil-
lis. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michi-
gan. 32 pp. 35?.
WITH A sense of urgency and complete dedication,
Dick Hillis, Christian missionary in China who was
captured by the Communists, tells why the United States
should not recognize Communist China and should con-
tinue to oppose her admission to U.N. This dedicated,
Christian voice carries the authority of long experience
and should be heard by every Christian who would do
his duty in this matter and by every citizen who has been
deceived by the false dream of a workable partnership
with Communist China in particular and communism in
general. Howard E. Kershner
I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to
acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get
wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man
from getting rich; it would do more harm than
good. Abraham Lincoln
describing the war we are in," says the
editor of the volume. "Taken along one
path, it is a struggle of economic theory,
with the Sino-Soviet Empire representing
economic collectivism and with the West
representing varying versions of economic
individualism. Taken along the other path,
it is an armed struggle in which economic
theory is merely a tactical skirmish while
territorial conquest, raw-power domina-
tion of the world is the grand, guiding
strategy.
"View I is of the latter path. It treats of
communism as not a way to organize so-
ciety but a way to organize conflict-total
protracted conflict. It suggests that the
gaps between Communist theory and
Communist reality lead to this path."
In design, artwork, typography and pho-
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of mechanical production that alone com-
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For merely the mechanical cost of pro-
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