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Show GORKY CONDEMNS BOLSHEVIK RULE Finds Leaders Have "Experimented "Experi-mented on Human v Beings." BAPTISTS RAISE A BARRIER. r : Plan educational Exttnslen at On Rtmfdy Also Would Draw Famllle! Cleatr Togtthr. Revelation of the failure of the Bolshevik Bol-shevik mocmcut to produce the power to lift up the downtrodden of Russia Is raado by no less a Russian than Maxim Gorky, in an article published at Helslngfors, Finland, Gorky l quoted ns saying: Tho revolution has not been followed fol-lowed by any spiritual revival, and lias prorcd Itself unable to make men more honest Men now In power are Just as brutal as those In authority under tho Imperial regime, and scud as ninny muri 10 prison. Bolshevik lenders. (Jrlven by ambition, am-bition, oru performing experiments on human beings. it Is In tlio belief that Christianity Is tho greatest burrler that can be rnlRed against tho growth of such a spirit In the United Stales that the Now World Movement of Northern Buptlsts has organized IO.CO0 ihurihcs to rolpe $100,000,000 between April 23 uml .May 2. Declaring for a "vigorous application applica-tion of Christianity to probl6ms of world unrest," the Northern Baptists aro to extend cdiicuttonal work, spread their 'Americanization of tho foreign born to a greater degree, work among Indian tribes and the negro race 11101c than ever before, doclop many more community centers In the cities, occupy vast areas that now have no church, nnd expnud their work In the foreign Ileitis. While applying these measures efforts ef-forts are being made to knit the social fabric more closely by bringing the family closer together as a unit.. In the churches this lukes the form of organization of groups of several families fam-ilies In enih group. The ohsertanct of " family Sunday" every few weeks Is another factor la this movement'. Tb need for such improvawent of family Ufa has awakened civic author!-Mm. author!-Mm. too, and Mveral atatea have "horn bureaus." That of Illinois, for tattance, states It purpoaa "to dclop vary bom Into an Institution which la economically sound, mechanically convenient, phjslcslly healthful, morally mor-ally wholesome, mentally atlraulatlug, pdally responsible and a center of unselfish love." And both church and civic lenders agree that with such a development, much la done to lessen th peril to th nation from radicalism. |