CHRISTIANITY AND

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 6

CHRISTIANITY AND

:(To the Editor;) .' '-, . Sir,—Your correspondent ■■ "Boyaiy" endeavours to make out that "there are: passages in the Bible that seem to favour the idea o£ Coinmunisnv" It is certainly, trua that the converts to, Christianity in the early church-days', had "all'things in common' (Acts 2.44) but one needs to read verses 41,- 42, and 43a150, wiere we find They that gladly- received ■ his (St. Peter's), word were baptised ... . and they continued steadfastly "in '. the Apostles* doctrine- and fellowship, anS in breaking of; bread, - and in prayers;' and :fear came upon every soul ~.-; and^ll that believed were together, and had all. things common. .Now, it is plain that the. people who 'had all things.common" here were all true believers', in "the Christian faith, and therefore they were on a common and solid ground, for they acknowledged the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour.* Thia is very .different from present day Communism, -which is anti-Christian, and acknowledges'no Divine Head. : •'-. ■--' The Christian, also loves to "fear God and honour the King" (1 Pet. 2.17). Are these among, the precepts of Communism? I'thiiik not.—l am, etc., '•'■ ■ r v ' •-■' AWAKENED. ;