CHRISTIAN ORDER CAMPAIGN

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23748, 21 September 1942, Page 6

CHRISTIAN ORDER CAMPAIGN

Sir. —Two things seem important. One is aiming at some definite object; the second, aiming at it now. I suggest that the object to be aimed at now is economic equality. Human progress has often been associated with the ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity. It is for Christians, first, to stress the ideal of fraternity to be realised economically through economic equality: second, to emphasise the paradox that freedom is realised by man through devotion to what is ideal and not through domination, whether economic, political, or ideologic.—Yours, etc.. N. M. BELL. September 18, 1942. Sir, —I am a man with no education and just average intelligence. I have travelled a good deal, and the most frequent question I have heard voiced about the churches is, “What connexion is there betweep the Founder of Christianity—the carpenter who had nowhere to lay his head and said ‘Sell all thou hast and give to the poor’— and those who occupy Lambeth Palace, drawing £15,000 a year, or the Vatican, with untold treasure locked, up, or even the most humble vicarage, drawing £3OO a year?” When the disciples put the Master’s teaching into practice, we shall soon have Christian Order.—Yours, etc., NATURAL. September 15, 1942.