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But this five per cent have made it their bus- fess to Win every key post in the union while the other ninety-five per cent have been con- tent to take care of themselves, bothering with Bittle that concerns the common welfare. Even many of those Christians who are jead- ers have been taken advantage of by the aati- Christian. Good men in their own private lives, they are swayed like reeds in the wind because they do nor think of applying cheir Christian principles to labor which is in crying need of them. They are caught by the force- fulness of che anti-Christian’s definite policy. & te commenications—Today public opinion 2 formed almost exclusively by the informa- tion that reaches people through newspapers, books, magazines, and other literature, the radio, television, and motion pictures, Al) eee, ot Tt | _f *_ 8%. £19 __ sorts of devices are bang ased in this eld to repress, if not altogether eliminate, Christian principles and to give free play to pegan ideas. A de-Christianizing process is dowly bur surely showing rerults. Those who fashion the me- ages being poured out through these medis are the key people in communications. If they are and-Christian, their products are bound to be anti-Christian. To insure decent magazines and books, for instance, it is mot encugh to complain sbour indecent Literature. That sccomplishes brtle. Until enough decent-minded people with writ- ing sbilicy make ic their bociness to occupy is- fluenrial positions in comaranications, fussing and fuming are futile. The Christopher can make s notable contribution to the field of communications by taking, of encouraging ethers to take, euch jobs as reporters, script writers, editorial writers or asociates, manu- @cript readers, and other positions that have to do with the formation of the message to the Often secretaries or minor amistants of such people cas supply a Christian point of view on an issue and thus be the means, as Christophers, of bringing the principles of Christ into fields of influence where they would never be, if it were not for such persons. ‘This brief article is no attempt to give com- plete methods. Its chief purpose is merely to suggest a few simple ways and means in order to lead on to countless other methods chat Chrissophers will develop on their owa i initis- tive and = ly to ther ows occ. vgrg FEE ANSWER IN GUR HANDS For the next twenty or thirty years, maybe longer, this nation will play the leading role in world affairs. Which way will it lead che world? If the Christian principles chat make our country possible are strong and virile in the Hundred Million we may lead the world to Chris. ‘The answer is in our hands and in the hands cf people like us. It is a terrible challenge. But we must face the facts. There is no other way than che way of Christ. “Il am the way and the troth and the life” (John 14:6). HM we but strike s spark, that spark, in the Provi- dence of God, may burst into a flame. But there is no time to lose. We must show speed. The efforts of even the least among w can be blessed with results that will exceed the foadest hopes of anyone. God is behind we recapture the world for Christ. Tr is a great time to be alive. We must enffor Bhowtee Let ws not forger, however, that we sre fel- lowers of « Crucified One, that, as He suffered