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Show you, and persecute you' " such apeople cannot, can-not, without some spiritual revulsion, go out to destroy churches and hospitals and schools and private dwellings. Such people cannot sink, without warning, ships manned by human hu-man beings; or deal with other nations on a basis of lies and deceits; or kill women and children in cold blood. A people which inflicts in-flicts all of these unprovoked horrors upon others, must be made to believe that it is not fighting against fellow religionists, against human and peace-loving people, but that it is waging a holy war against evil. How by the strictest difinition, anyone, with a drop of civilized blood in their veins can condone the cruel cunning of the twisted soul that would seek to defy Nature, to bur deep in ignorance and superstition all that Christ lived and died for, is almost beyond comprehension. A Hitler might have destroyed Christianity Chris-tianity at its birth, but ten thousand Hitlers, supported by a thousand Goebbels, cannot now crush it. Christianity is too deeply rooted, root-ed, its contribution to civilization has been too mighty for any modern Genghis Khan to crush it. HITLER AND CHRISTIANITY At the preesent time the Western contingent contin-gent is surrounded by a world at war war across the Atlantic and war across the Pacific. Pac-ific. Nor are these ordinary wars. These wars especially the one raging in Europe, have as objectives that far transcend the desire to rectify frontiers, to acquire markets, to find new homes for overcrowded populations, to secure a supply of raw materials. The European Eur-opean conflict is a life struggle between the spiritual values that are the marrow of our civilazation on the one hand, and forces of evil they are determined to utterly destroy des-troy that civilization. In other parts of the world there are economic and social upheav-les, upheav-les, and no one can predict with certainty that they will not engulf this great land of ours. A people that has believed for centuries in that sublime saying " Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou should love thy neighbor, neigh-bor, and hate thine enemy.' But I say unto you , 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use |