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‘Spon certain special political bodies and effam Same nT 8 wit ots form ol pm the world, therefore, the United Searm apo force the leading practical expooest of Cue Ganity. ... The basic teachings of Chrsnaney are in its bloodstream. The centra) dectnas @ ita political system—the inviolbilty of de hundred years of Carini pan pms te immortality of the soul. Ghri . is manifest in the culcure tnd huhu al Prople, in the arguments that orators snd pe Siclans use to gain their ends; in the papeie ideas af good taste, which control sdvertamg movies, radio, and all otber forms of pub. opinion; in the laws, the manner ond abe @andards of our people.” America's debi 10 Chrtettamns The significant editoria} continued thet “¢ tbese applications of Christisnicy are mourn istic, they are nonetheless resl; they sev amen theless removed from the barbaric, che pagen eyaical, generous rather thea ectich Yh A has always bees, sad a so ee among ideals. Now, manifestly, the Asmrnum ewes sll chis to the Church He owe kh the fight chat che Church pot up dorng hang dark centuries in Europe; and be owe # © the leaderthip tint the Church provid @ the setrlement, founding, and pobucel am gration of bis incredibly bountaces lead . . His original debt to the Charch @ thes p> found sad ucterly without price .. .* Yet while we owe 20 much ts Chrsnemey we should be foolish mot wo realize thar chew Je a drift, rapidly increasing, swoy from de basic Christion fandamentale recounted oo the editorial. We feel eure thet this trend om & extracel back to the prisciples of Christ that eewiy the majority of the Hundred Million to ww ewoniry are peither anti-religious nor atbe- -~ ‘hes ste in the sorry position of having tu» fre on postions of leadership who take an ware on the salvacion of their souls. They en oo “oe msn’s land,” as far #2 religion is ve ered No one is telling them in the name ¢ Un “Be on your gusnd against fale prorbers, amen who come to you in sheep’s cloch- ee bet are mvenous wolves within” (Met- ties * 11) and “fear ye not them that kill che tts sed are not able co bill rhe soul; but ew te fear him that can destroy boch sou! and teats im heli” (Matthew 12:38). Tire Hundred Million, therefore, not thove divvedy saved, are the objective of the Christo- phot The “already saved” roust be the instru- wesets we remind them of the precious blessing ef thn: Christian heritage. The Chrintopber Gel! “go"—and keep “going”—to the Hu- nd Million with the patient, kindly perse- versace of the Good Shepherd, offering but not eeponng. “kaocking st the door,” st Christ ded. bes ect pushing in. PROBLEMS WE FACE Maay my we are living in a new young ewld «But fet ws not fool ourselves, It is owl the mee old world. Conditions have hanged drusically. But we are the world and © ere the wme. The world will never be ce tec wr ix_— ase le San as we ore, the world yp in 2 bed camdscwn, it is becsuse we are. Dew largely wo che airplane and atomic energy te world in far more one, though complex, than ic hes ever been in history. A great 7 .