The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-01
is SOCIALISM ATHElSTIC?

\ prominent soSialist says he is
opposed to Christianity because it is
opposed to socialism and because .!
the further ana chief reason, it is Eot
true, that the Heavenly Father Is a
myth and no one can reasonably be
heve in him and that there is no heav-'
emily father watching tenderly over
his children. that he is the baseless
shadow OF wistful human dream
Such sentiments as these expressed
by the opponents of socialism viii
have tendency to drive thousands,
who In some way have had desire to
study the tenets of the socialisuc
faith. away from even the thought OF
any association with those who preach
its doctrines.
The Christian faith may be wrong,
but it has been the solace of untold
millions who for ages have found hope
and consolation in its teachings. 1t
has grown in power and strength year
by year as the ages have rolled on,
has been the rock on which humanity
has founded all that is best in the so
cial fabric that holds mankind togeth-
er.
IL has cheered the living. pointing
the way TO better thinks and has com
forted the dying as they have entered
the dark shadows that hover over the
border.
Christianity has established itself
ON such a firm foundation that all the
powers of evil ayaileth nothing when
brought in contact with its teachings
and it is today the tried and demon
strated hope of millions upon millions
who without ii would be living in the
darkness OF uncertainty. the faithless
condition of the ordinary beast.
All over this world Christianity is
rapidly making headway SO that its
precepts Of truth and love, its guiding
faith, is becoming the actuating mo-
tive in not only the relations of man
between man, but nation between ma
ton.
Wherever the doctrines of Chris
tianity are taught and wherever ac-
cepted and practiced, civilization gains
firmer footho,i and eventually en-
lightens those who have lived in iS-
norance of it's divine benefcence be
yond conception, beyond the most ar
dent hopes of It's followers.
THAT there is a Heavenly Father
as taught by Christianity and that he
exercises a wise and tender watchful
ness over His creatures is an axiom,
established by the experience of man,
by the teachings of nature, and by
every instinct of which the soul o.
man is possessed.
The good old Christian mother who
took her son to her bosom As he
passed out from his home life into the
world TO hew out his own fortune. and
admonished him with tears to keep
the faith of his fathers ami so live
that his life would be Spo.less from
sin and bring him into noble manhood
would spurn the thought that no Heav
enly Father kept watch over her loved
one and answered the prayers she "
fered for his salvation and safety and
there is many a son who will rise in
pride and say that to the prayers y.
that good old mother and TO her faith
in God and right he owes his success
in life. whatever II may be.
4 Heavenly Father. a Father 10
whom the Christian kueels ana heats
the story of his sorrows an3 joys his
burdens and hopes. is an ever atid,r, /,
cogent and existing fact in the hearts
Of untold millions and the system of
social ethics that attempts to rob them
Of that faith and hipe is a barren and
frlitleSs one. one that will only reap
the destruction OF its own wickeinesS.
one that in Christian America will
never obtain a foothold one that will
never have the foundation OF superstruc
ture OF distinct success in this or any
other country OF the world. II this
is socialism and its teachings. it's
doom as an entity OF lasting person