In the 36th century the western world definitely broke loose from historical Christianity and set out to reform the world on purely human lines. Seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific thought remade the world into a huge machine running under its own steam; nineteenth and twentieth century science transformed the machine into ai biological organism, Each succeeding re-creation vies with its predecessor in trying to prove that God, the Creator, has no place in His own creation.
Politics, considering itself outside the jurisdiction of a morality sanctioned by: God, has degenerated to such a disgraceful state that expediency and greed are the only common grounds upon which the nations of the world can meet. In economic life, capitalism repudiated allegiance io Christian morals, became a monster responsible neither to God or man, and generated that terrible revolution of the rich against the poor, which is the absolute negation of the Christian social order. Philosophy declared its autonomy, quickly degenerated into subjectivism and the denial of reason, and finally ended in suicide. Education, in adopting the mad principle that education is one thing and religion quite another, became an instrument for paralyzing half the human mind. It taught the modern man that he has no soul, no responsibility extept to his own ego, that he is honoured with the same social status as the brute, and that it is in accordance with the dignity of his human nature to practice a morality even lower than that of the animals The net result of all these errors is the modern man with a modern linind trembling before the chaos created by his own revolt.
The world has accepted these errors in the name of liberty and progress, but from a casual glance at the human species it would appear that we have progressed so rapidly that we find ourselves just about back to the point where the world was when Christianity stepped in and rescued it from disaster and despair. Christanity did not scrap Roman civilization, but brought it back to sanity by dignitying what was good and eliminating what was opposed to the will of God in th, revelation of Christ. of these two destructive systems are indifferent to historical Christianity.
Christianity stands in their way. They both openly fear it and tell you by. Christianity stands in way. It is the only vital organized force in the world that can keep them from reaching their objective. They both hurl their unscrupulous power against the historical Church and doom her to extinction.
Now, is it not a rather remarkable thing that the great mass of sane, levelheaded individuals, who clearly see the falsity in these two social economic systems, and who tremble with fear at the necessary consequences, should be wholly indifferent to the one thing which the enemy fears the most, and which he openly admits must perish if he is to survive?
The present deplorable state of the world is not a sudden thing. It is the logical consequence of intellectual, social and economic errors of Who past, each and every one of which has Christianity or Chaos It is our firm belief that the world has gone wrong because it has been uprooted from the Absolute, and it will never find its way back to sanity until it turns once more into the path marked out for it by the infinite wisdom ofthe Creator and revealed to us by Him whom we call the Saviour of the world. The world will never recover until it applies the oldest remedy in the world to the latest disease that corrupts the body politic. And even.then we cannot hope for a sudden cure. It calls for a long heart-rending struggle, and it means much suffering and sacrifice.
The lines are already drawn. The battle has already begun, and the time is not far distant when everyone of us will have to choose between the standard of the Cross and the standard of antichrist. The social and economic system that evolves from this struggle will be Christian or anti-
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