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Christian faith can bring about a re turn to standards of Christian family life. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS NOT ENOUGH: • Mr. Churchill sounded the much- needed warning that religious liberty is not enough. It is not enough that men shall be free to go to church; they must go! It is not enough that they have the freedom to worship God; they must worship! It is not enough that they may have liberty to read the Bible; they must read, and believe! In our schools, and in some of those abroad, there has been a tendency to make “freedom of religion” mean “freedom from religion.” Education has moved in the direction of a totally nonreligious or godless state. Admon ishing against this trend, Mr. Church ill said: “Here we have freedom of thought as well as freedom of conscience. Here we have been pioneers of religious tolerance. But side by side with all this has been the fact that religion has been the rock in the life and character of the British people, upon which they have built their hopes and cast their cares. This fundamental element must never be taken from our schools." OUR PAGAN PRESS: • While we are grateful that the press in America is still free, we must regret that it has become predomi nantly pagan. Mr. Churchill's recom mendations c o n c e r n i n g economics were headlined, but his references to religion were ignored. When religion is not censured, it habitually is satirized in the press. This pagan trend was first noticeable in the way the great city newspapers handled the famous “Scopes trial” in Tennessee some two decades ago. Wil liam Jennings Bryan was ridiculed and belittled because •he stood for the Bible; while the Bible-scofiing agnostic, Clarence Darrow, was por trayed as a hero and champion of truth. Recently a large number of leading newspapers made a “Roman holiday” of journalistic satire over an incident that ofccurred in the nation’s capitol. A government employee came to work wearing an e m b l e m on her dress which read, “Christ came to save sin ners.” A superior officer advised her not to report for work until she re moved the pin containing this' Scrip ture. ' The newspaper reporters pictured her as a fanatic; and, to them, it was all a*huge joke, that any one should [ Continued an Page 334]
Significance of the News By DAN GILBERT San Diego, Calif.
TRAGIC NEGLECT OF CHRISTIAN TRUTH:
• In his much-discussed world-wide radio address on the subject of the post-war world, Winston Churchill gave his endorsement to two funda mental Christian principles, which have for. several decades been under relentless attack by the propagandists of paganism. Mr. Churchill urged the rebuilding of Christian family life and the reinforcing of religious education in the schools and colleges. By direct inference, the British Prime Minister censured godless education and birth control propaganda, both of which have spread widely in our own coun try. Strangely enough, however, this portion of Mr. Churchill’s speech was completely ignored by most of the commentators and editorial writers. Much, space and attention were given to detailed discussion of Mr. Church ill’s suggestions regarding social se curity when the war is. over; but his pertinent remarks regarding the need to preserve the Christian elements in social and educational life were con veniently overlooked. THE INNER ENEMY: • Mr. Churchill resolutely faced the fact that an inner enemy in America and England is apt to continue its drive to enfeeble and undermine our populations, long after the Japanese and Nazi enemies are annihilated. The British Prime Minister declared; “One of the mo§t somber anxie ties which beset those who look thirty or forty or fifty years ahead, and in the field one can see ahead only tpo clearly, is a dwindling birth rate. In thirty years, unless the present trends alter, a smaller working and fighting population will have to support and protect
It is not enough that men shall have liberty to read the Bible. They must r e a d it, > and believe. nearly twice as many old people; in fifty years, the position will be worse still. “If this country is 'to keep its high place in the leadership of the world, and to survive as a great power that can hold its own against external pressure, our people must be encouraged by every means to have larger fami lies.” From the days of the old Roman Empire, and even earlier, a dwindling birth rate has been a sure symptom of the rise of the philosophy and prac tice of paganism. A heightening di vorce rate and a falling birth rate are the inevitable products of apostasy and godlessness, of the overthrow of Biblical principles, and the substitu tion of •the immoral cults of self- indulgence. As Mr. Churchill pointed out, the nation can be made and kept strong only as the home is 'restored to its rightful place of dominance in the social order. Only a return to the
“ I wore an emblem b e a r i n g the words, ‘Christ came to save sinners,’ and my superior officer advised me not to report to work until the pin had been removed.”
— A Government Employee.
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