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From all over che stadium came ing of matches, unc sary 100.000 pane of light lit up the summer night. Everyone gasped with surprise. In almost lem time than it takes to wl x, the striking experiment was over, and the ast searchlights were once more playing tricks with theis multicolored shafta of brilliance. Quickly sad effectively everyone present bad recaived 5 lasting impression of the edi Sal Power of even ome Coming out af the Coliseum and weaviag our wey through the huge throng towards the waiting streetcars, we found ourel{ musing oves what bad just happened. How compare Gvely easy it would be, we thought, to baing peace to a heartsick world if only enough f the wonderful people in it would make a cos tant effort to spread che light of troth, and combat the darkness of esror. Liule treedem witheat trwth People over the earth are heginning to com peebend more and more thar there is 2 very intimate connection between treth aad free dom. Sobered by the scourge of war, eves those formerly opposed to religion are more disposed today to admit the inescapable concle- tion of what Christ meant when He ssid: “The truth shall make you free” (Joho $32). They had seen bow inevitably truth can catch ep with those who fear and despise the free dom that Christian civilization makes possible Once « sufficient number of people realize that falsehood is nothing more than the ab- sence of truth, just as darkness is the ebeence of ght, hate the sbeence of love, and discasr the absence of health, then there is bigh hope of ection on a big scale in behalf of truth. Hf 6 solitary individual, surrounded on all fides by 0 depreming darknem, con Save the 4 ulating swursnce char his tiny pinpoint of Teeth ip meee powerful chan all che darkness of eetor, it needs no stretch of the imagination te visualize the good that would result if millions could be found to multiply thst tiny pinpoint of truth millicos of times. Each trath-bearer would bave the consolation of Reowiag that he or she can be « bearer of chat tree “Light which enlighteneth every man hit cometh into chis world” (John 1:9)~« goriner with Him Who ssid “I am the wsy, aed ube truth, and the life” (John 14:6). Each can be « bearer of Christ—e Christopher.* WHAT ABOUT TRE RUNPRED MILLION? Someone has spproximated that out of 140,~ 000,000 persons in the United States not more than 40,000,000 Catholics and noa-Catholics practice any formal religion. If this is true, it leaves 9 vast multitude of 100,000,000 indi- viduals in owr country who are living off the of Carstisn ation, but who are becoming lem and less conscious of the great Christian fundamentals that have made our mative posible. If this trend gocs far enough, i is inevitable that a new paganism will rise im oar midst to destroy the freedom that Chris Gasiry sad Christianity alone makes possible. Same easy that this new paganism is already here. Maybe it is. But we feel char it is not to iate to do something about it. Some time ago Fortune magazine reminded wa of our debt to Christianity when it editori- alized us follows: “Democracy is too easily as- eumed w be s pattern of government based wf: of Christisn Secs © Posk & Wogusll’s Seandard Dictonsry define Cerimcpher ws “a bearer of Chri” Ie is derived