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Show Some of the Causes, to which, to Save our Nation, We Musi Give Attention Why have the years belween the two wars been the most destructive in human history more destructive of the souls of men than all the wars? It is because the people gave themselves so completely to Mammon at its worst and at its best. Their chiefest error was, according to the poet-seer, Alfred Noyes, complete indifference to the trends of society political, industrial, in-dustrial, commercial and educational, and giving their attention to money-getting. money-getting. They neglected the better things of life shattering or sneering them cut of their lives until there came the intellectual, moral and spiritual collapse. They swindled and exploited aud got gain to the limitt and ran like mad to all the pleasures of the world: They embraced the pagan idea that might and rnoney make the only success and are the only good. So far did materialism go that American, English and French industrialists industri-alists sold arms, planes and munitions to Germany and Japan to be used against ag-ainst the United Nations murderers for profit. Christ was ruled out, praise with lips but mooked with deeds, Literature was atheistic, low, obscene; ob-scene; vulgar and coarse. Mencken blatantly said: "Rabelais is nearer to Go than Jesus?' And Shaw said: "No man who regards Christ as an ideal is worth working with." Bertrand Russell lectured in American Uni versilies on free love and trial marriages, deriding most of the ideals of Christianity. Chris-tianity. And most of the churches have put themselves in a condition that they con do little to remedy the situation. Too often their fine churches church-es become tombs for the pure, simple gospel of the Man of Galilee, |
