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Godliness WilI Prevclil An Editorial

The basic weakness that must eventually destroy Communism is lack of spirituality-of religion.

A great and lasting nation of atheists is an impossibility. The basic principle must be selfishness, and from such a foundation no mighty or permanent structure will ever rise.

Hitler and the Kremlin gang are but incidents in the history of nations. But religion is the very life of those nations. Man, at heart, is a creature that requires sentiment, and religion is the deepest, most ineradicable sentiment in

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the human heart.

Strike out religon and you reduce a nation to the level of educated beasts. Annul the power that draws a people upward, and it sinks back to savagery. Where there is no Fatherhood of God, there can be no Brotherhood of Man.

The dictators may try as they will to erase religion from the human heart, but the effort will finally be in vain, and the adoration of a Supreme Power will remain the divine perfume of the soul.

Reed Porier Convqlesces

Reed Porter, for the past six years editor of The and is now on the way to recovery. Upon his discharge the hospital, Reed will be accompanied by his brother,