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Lty,. >. to Director, FBI 6-28-49 | "AM OPEN LETTER TO WHITTAKER CHAMBERS” "Dear Whittaker Chambers, | “Yiaddress this letter to you and to your family, but I make no pretence, I address it also to Alger and Priscilla Biss, te Richard Hixon, and stil] more to the whele Society of Friends, We are all one in the bond of Christ, all muxbers of His body--that, we secm to have - forgotten, In Him, what touchest one touches all. — “Believe me, though quite unworthy of such a ministry, I write to you in tears, feeling how cruelly wo all have violated His unity. You mist feel as I do, that in the minds of thousands of Americans your troubles have become a symbol of the tragedy that lies just beneath the surfaces of the sea of our contemporary life. Semeons lights a watch: and the oll-slick surface is aflame and monsters rise from the depths. It is not eurpriging that in such a atruggle the children of this world accuse, judge, lie and hate. When these things happen within the body of Cirist, the results are teo awful to contemplate. "You fled the violence and deceit ef atheist communism and you believed that in the holy tradition of Quakerism you would find a truth and peace which the children of this world could not offer, You thought to find a comradeship to hold you steady in the growth of that truth and peace, Forgive us where we have betrayed that trugt. We have torn and beaten the body of Christ. We have taken sides, We have divided again the garment of Him who said, ‘dudge not.' He who said ‘Judge not! know how deeply hidden each soul is from each other soul on earth, ‘The - soul of thy brother is as a dark forest.' We pags those nearest to us as strangers and it often comes about that the less we know the more we judge. Ig wo must judge, the Seriptures tell uz, let it be righteous J » in fear and trembling. Is there a mother's som among ue who would willingly etand before Mis Creator to be judged upon his merits? No, Hie gaze upon us ie all charity and mercy, and only tine could we bear 1% As Ged has looked upon us, so are we te look upon our brothers. Christ forgive us alld Blind in the darkness of our souls we have taken. the eword, cutting off cars right and left, and He stands by in silence, His hand atretehed forth in healing pity. . oo | 103253