YOUNG COMMUNISTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22136, 5 July 1937, Page 6

YOUNG COMMUNISTS

To THE EDITOR OE THIS PRESS Sir,—As already staled, I maintain that Christianity offers the only safeguard to the world at all times, and especially so to-day, and that Communism is only cheap and nasty and no remedy at all. The Church started when the workers were all slaves in the Roman empire. Under the Church’s influence slavery gradually disappeared, women were emancipated, men were taught the sacredness of marriage and home, and the freedom and dignity of the workers were achieved and safeguarded. There existed a profound belief in the superiority of right over might, of spirit over matter, of the eternal interest of humanity over the ambitions and the passions of the passing hour. A brotherhood arose, transcending racial and political divisions. united in a common quest for truth, filled with the spirit of mutual charity and helpfulness. Art was honoured in all its branches, and evidence of this is to be seen to this day in specimens of architecture, poetry, and painting that testify to the love of beauty which then existed among all grades of society. The universities of Europe were crowded with a cosmopolitan gathering of students, many of whom came from the poorest class, engaged in plumbing the depths of metaphysics, and following the difficult labyrinths of logic. The thirteenth century may be said to be the greatest one of all, solely because it followed a comparatively peaceful period, that enabled Christian influence to be at a maximum. To-day we have the fruits of a so-called re-i

formation—a philosophy of separation ! and irresponsibility which breaks up j the moral organism—a denial of the ] moral law in economics and anywhere if it clashes with the modern law of! self-interest. ; The no-nation money-lender', •.•/ho i controls the world to-day. has done his : work well, hi so far as he has drawn ! intd his clutches all the wealth rightly belonging to mankind, who are reduced to economic servitude, lie now J seeks fresh fields and also protection from the natural craving in man for.! social justice. So well paid agents are sent to Russia to start operations for ! the exploiting of this craving uncVr the guise of a new religion for I 'Ye< a | dom. Poor Man, robbed of his divine j heritage and his naturaj j ights. has in j his ignorance and misery taken the bait, and to-day we see the std results. Sow Moscow and reap Spain Sow Communism and reap other extreme so-called remedies—Fascism r.nd Nazism. Mr J. W. Thompson lias, mentioned

the State in relation to class or party domination. Now the people; themselves form the State, and herein we find the real remedy—to take up again in its entirely the divine heritage of our .forefathers, and. like them, taste of its fruit in our very lives, see to it that wo attain to our dignity .is men. that we receive our natural rights, and that we respect our neighbours: thai the Government be for the human v. elfare of society as a whole: and \hat as our servant it does not over-reach it- ■ self. In thanking you for the space you have given me, I would like to expres° a hope that this, our native land, may always be wisely ^ f ' Christian lines, and that it may attain to the dream of our b'ff-honrted. sp'fsacrificing D'oneers when they i ailed it "God's Own Country."—Yours, < to.. A TO 7. July :i. 1937. [This correspondence is now ctL>io.i.— Ed., "The Press."J