To the Editor of the 'oRTH-CHINa Datty News." m-—Let no one after reading: the vulgar letter of "Convinced Bolshevik" in your today's issue imagine for 'a moment that this! planet of ours is going to revert to barbarism. No one can name a nation which long survived when immorality prevailed among the lasses and rascality took root among the masses. We will turn the pages of history in vain to find a people which long maintained an unassailable position when it knew not purity, when it failed to live up the principles enunciated in the Commandments. We will 'a in vain to discover a nation which could be called happy and progressive if it played fast and loose with God's eternal laws of morality. Let us open the tomes of [history and read the _historian's, description of one of the darkest periods of French history, the Reign of Terror:— longer heard; the sick received no
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ulead preached atheism to sig lee, "tatendca Bewildered. audience: day may be taken as a carbon copy of the French Reign of Terror and probably more. For four long years the people raged, "their lullaby the Carmagnole, their toy the guillotine." No woman was safe, no girl could walk in public assured that she would be free from attack: while some of the purest, the sweetest, and the most honourable men and women of France suffered terrible deaths, the masses ating their hate in gory destruction and grim aggression. France, noted today for her three principles of rightecusness—liberty, equality, and fraternity—has recovered her ce lensness and honour and her fluence felt as an immortal force among the nations of the earth. What at one time looked dark has given way to sunshine, not by her wealth, nor by her power, but by her spirit, by the things of the spi Convinced Bolshevik" may gloat over the present devilry raging in is country, but his doom and destruction are inevitable, He will yet live to learn if he is fortunate that without morals the world has no future. Morality es part of the universal law. It is written athwart the universe, The stars their courses move with it, never against it, Lam, ete, Mentor.
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