The Archive · 1938

Spanish Bombings

Attempted Justification

Fo the Biter of the "NóWrü-CHINA Dany News"

20.50. We will rejoice ju thy salvation, and in the name"ot our God we will set up our banners.

Among the citations which comprise the Lesson Sermon are the following from the Bible. John 424 "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must, worship him in spirit and in truth.

Bm,—May I be allowed to gloss on your Monday editorial about the "Republican Threat"?

It is a fact that everybody should know that from the earliest days of -hostilities in Spain, Red raids have taken place regularly and systematic cally on Nationalist towns. Not only on these towns, which might legitimately be considered military "objectives, but on those that were entirely without deferke and devoid of military importance. "The purpose of the latter attack was therefore the massacre and terrorization of the civilian population, Yet when General Franco assumed superiority in the air (after a long interval) and now uses his planes for military purposes, the Reds raise a loud hypocritical outery which is faithfully re-echoed in thoughtless newspapers. The present outcry is not a humanitarian one, It is a carefully calculated one to immobilize the Nationalist? air force by pressure from outside, now that it can be used to deadly advantage, Tt is evident that the Reds and their allies the Pinks are making the most of the bombs on Barcelona, Valencia and Alicante, and people whose hearts do them more credit than their heads are allowing themselves to be stampeded by this appeal to humanitarian instinct.

And considering that Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante have been the seenes of fiendish massacre of innocent méh, women and children by the very people who now cry out against the bombing, it will be realized that their clamour is a sham, from the point of view of honest horror.

"Moreover, who would try to uphold that these towns bombed by Franco's planes are open? Generally they are The Lesson Sermon also includes the following passages from the [Christian Science Text book, "Science and Health with Key to the Sctiptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. "God is incorporeal divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Are these terms, synonymous? They are. They refer to one absolute God. They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and Wholeness of Deity.

Not materially but spiritually we know Him as divine Mind, as Life Truth, and Love. We shall obey and adore in proportion as we apprehend the divine nature and love Him understandingly, warring no more over the corporeality, but rejoicing in the affluence of our God. Religion will then be of the heart and not of the head. We worship spiritually, only as We cease to worship materially.

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