GORING out over the modern world in which he lives, Pierre Van Passer, in his book, "Day of our Years," pens the fol-lawing.lines: "The struggle that is coming is certainly a struggle for man.
In that struggle Christianity will triumph.. But that triumphant Christianity will not be the Christianity we know. The old Christianity, which identified itself with this world, will perish with that world.
It has been weighed and found wanting. It will be a new Christianity that comes up from the depths of the catacombs of suffering and sorrow.
Its apostles will be the martyrsand saints of a new religion that will solve the elementary problems of human' existence, the conquest of economic slavery a poverty and peace."
Van Passen is not condemning here the Christian Church, but those ristians who for a long time have em ingly gone into voluntary exile ingeatacombs of their own making. Hetis approaching them for living under a glorious name and refusing tø live glorious lives which the world has every right to expect from those "who bear that name, larism has been the bane of the last century, The attempt to banish religion from the social world is reaping its fruits today. Christianity is in danger of becoming an activity more and more reserved to ti ministers of the Gospel, as though tHe apostolate were not the normal prerogative of every Christian as such.
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