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Show ) J : (I iS(ii JTljO (1 jTOOOl MIQOOB .... ' i i r 4,rp 1 here's no place to worship there, except in your secret heart. Yet the word of God is more powerful than ever." These words were spoken by a man who had recently escaped from the Communist zone of Germany. He went on to say that while the Reds - policy. k - Dr. Pfittf 08? i permitted some churches to hold services, State Security agents checked each sermon to make sure that It was in harmony wjth Government i 0 i noted Swiss Protestant theologian, who was expelled from the University of Bonn in the early days of the Nazis, says: "It is striking that most of the clergymen arrested by the Russians were prominent during the war years in the Church's fight against Hitler." A - The foes are different. But the battle is the same and the outcome just as sure. No matter what terrible restrictive measures the Communists use they cannot stamp out religion in their world. And yet they keep trying to destroy the Church, because organized religion refuses to submit to any State which demands complete control over the individual's will and conscience. Religion, then, presents the Communists with a political problem in division of power, which it can never countenance. They cannot succeed. The unity of all faiths will enable persons with a basic belief in a Supreme Deity to win the peace we seek. Here are some indications: In .Red Poland thousands of Polish Roman Catholics coura- - churchmen and writers looks behind the Red security And finds the Church gaining on the Kremlin, and the Cross mightier than the stcord. Onc of America's best-inform- ed |