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Show Mr. Kennedy's Responsibilities President-elect John F. Kennedy soon will inherit the most awesome responsibilities of anyone in the world. Not the least of these is helping to keepa live the flame of Christianity, along with freedom, is threatened by Communism everywhere in the world. Columnist Clinton Davdson has summed up this side of the Kennedy talks in these words: When John F. Kennedy takes the oath of office as President (Continued on Page Four) r Mr. Kennedy's Responsibilities (Continued from Page One) of the United States next week he will become the temporal leader of what is generally called the Christian world at a critical time in the history of mankind. The United States is the Good Samaritan to which Christian people in many lands look for strength, understanding, compassion, com-passion, freedom and guidance. If we fail, and Communism takes over, Christianity may face its darkest day in almost 2,000 years. As President of the most powerful, prosperous and generous nation on earth, Mr. Kennedy will have a great responsibility not alone to the United States but to the peoples of all nations who aspire to freedom and peace. Communist leaders are atheists who reject Christian prin ciples and teachings. Their only "religion" is power and force, ruthlessly used to stamp out freedom and deny Christ's teaching that in the sight of God there is no distinction of class, wealth, race, color, position or power. They talk of "peace," but the peace they seek is a world in which there no longer is any opposition to communism and domination by communist leaders. Communism is the antithesis of Christianity. The great world struggle for the minds and the souls of men is between Christian freedom and pagan dictatorship. Mr. Kennedy becomes President at a time of unprecedented world crisis; at a time when the Free World must match force with force, and pray that it will not have to be used. It is a terrible responsibility that requires both wisdom and patience. We walk on the brink of disaster, where just one mistake mis-take could plunge the whole world into an unthinkable catastrophe. catas-trophe. Four out of every ten people in the world live under the domination of ruthless communist leaders. The spread of communist com-munist influence threatens to engulf another four of the ten in Asia, South America and Africa, as it already has in Cuba. As President of the most powerful of the so-called Christian nations, Mr. Kennedy faces a challenge and a responsibility perhaps unparalled since the pagan hordes of Asia crushed civilization into the Dark Age. |
