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Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Obscure Carpenter Can Aid UN fore she could crush out so much that was decent and civilized; Mussolini Mus-solini had to fling prayer aside in his tour of undisputed power, before be-fore he could reduce men to beasts. Are we joining these two blind leaders when we let the councils of the U. N. go on without prayer? I think we are. There have been no prayers in Paris. There were none here in my own city, three years ago, af the first meeting. The excuse was that if we asked a priest, a rabbi, or a Protestant clergyman to open and close our consultations with prayer, other nations might want to invoke their gods, too. Well why not? That's their affair. We certainly can't have too much prayer and if we had not shut the door in Christ's face the meetings might have been pretty much all prayer. Yes, if we had not ' abandoned Christ, He would not have abandoned aban-doned us. Prayer changes hard hearts; it opens blind eyes; it causes sudden capitulations and unthought-of solutions. Personally, I would be very glad to hear that prayer was to be permitted at the meetings. Even if 40 nations all wanted five minutes for prayer why, that would be only -something less than three hours of prayer. How many hours have they muddled away now, without prayer? Three houry, of prayer might save the world. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER of any one of the numerous Christian sects, do you agree with me that it is about time we asked that the name of Christ be introduced into the conferences of the United Nations? Na-tions? Even if you belong to the older Hebrew sect from which Christianity Christiani-ty sprang that sect of which the Master said, "I come not to destroy de-stroy the law, but to fulfill it" Christ is one of your prophets. He is a recognized figure in your theology, the-ology, and like all of us, you call our civilization "Christianity"; you call our world "Christendom." China, India, Africa are not Christendom. They do not use that word in reference to themselves. We do. And any high school student stu-dent knows that Christianity in Europe, for 2,000 years, represents something that does not exist under any other form of theism or paganism. China and India, with their swarming, half-naked, illiterate, diseased and underpriviledged tens of millions, do not know the libraries, librar-ies, roadways, hospitals, museums, schools', colleges, the musicians and painters, the laws and ideals, the writers and philosophers with which the physical and mental history of Christendom teems. We take them for granted. We say unthinkingly un-thinkingly that the orient hasn't got them, and we have. But do we stop to think why the orient hasn't got them, and why we have. The Obscure Carpenter Isn't it because of that mysterious mysteri-ous and inexplicable life that was lived 2,000 years ago, that obscure life that a carpenter lived, never writing a line, never having an influential in-fluential friend, destroyed as politically po-litically dangerous to the commonwealth, common-wealth, and yet voicing those laws that have thundered down into our other. With all its misinterpretations, misinterpreta-tions, its inquisitions, its priest- ". . any high school student knows . ." civilization of the newer world, even unto today? What other thing explains these mighty differences? There is no burning fanatica, its pomp and its wars, still enough of that strange, simple law has filtered down through human weaknesses and stupidities to make "Christianity" and "Christendom" synohomous with the word "civilization" today. The word that means equity, charity, education for the underprivileged, under-privileged, health for the suffering, suffer-ing, respect for human dignity, defense de-fense by honest law, sharing and uplifting through hospitals, churches, colleges, wide roadways, clean dwellings and whatever mistakes the higher-ups in religious relig-ious authority may sometimes make! the word that means life and strength in millions of human hearts, the destruction of fear, the simple good life of loving God, as eur Father, and our neighbor as ourselves. Christ's Law These truths are self-evident; nobody can deny them. Russia's attitude today was built upon . Christ's law, as she will presently awaken and concede. All Russia was Christ's, only a generation ago. The old surface scum of oppression op-pression and despotism may well be swept away, but Our Lady of Kazas will come back to her churok, one of these days. Germany Ger-many had to crush out Christ be- |