The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-10-01
OUR RELIGION
AND OUR HOMES
WILL BE DEFENDED BY ALL
MERlCANS, REGARD.
LESS OF CREED.
ARE NOT POLITICAL ISSUES
Socialistic Doctrines Seek to Destroy
Both Church and Home
Life.

That the churches, which seek to
make a neral appraisal of all social
and economic movements, is now pre-
senting strong front against the Non
partisan League leaders. is a hopeful
sign, and incidentally an evidence that
the church is not asleep as some
claim, but keenly alive to all issues
which affect human welfare, and
ready also as in other days of her
glory to present united front in com
batting a common foe
Never can the influence of the
church be underestmat in the solu-
ton of social and moral problems. and
because every economic problem today
is shot through with moral and spirit
ual elements, when the clergy and
churches get the proper grasp of these
questions they will find a speedy solu-
ton, and one too, according to the
highest standard which can be applied
Needless to say, this will be the
New Testament standard which after
all is the only one the church believes
in.
For this reason the church as a
whole is lining up soldly against the
rampant socialism of today, seeing in
it the greatest menace to home and
church that ever assailed their doors.
For, socialism today is essentially
goddess, daring to mock God and say
ing with Karl Marx the father of
modern socialism The idea of God
is the basis of perverted civilization,
and this idea must be destroyed"
No less deadly is the teaching of
modern socialism concerning the home
and family. 1t laughs at those old
fashioned virtues which have ever
been the sure and strong foundation
of the modern home, and if home is
disintegrating, it is because these prin-
ciples Of eternal worth are being re-
moved from it's foundation, and a rot
ten materialism built into it instead.
According to the socialist phioso-
ply, the present form of marriage is
one of the great obstacles to social
reform. August Bebel, one of the
great lights of socialism. says:
Human beings must be in a
their strongest impulse is con
cerned, as in the case OF any other
natural instinct. The gratifica-
ton of the sexual impulse is as
strictly the personal affair of the
individual as the qualification of
every other natural instinct No
one has to give an account of him
or herself, and no third person has
the slightest right to interven-
ton"
This is the teaching of 90 per cent
of Socialists today With the same
percentage boastfuly atheistic and
blatant abusers of the church and re
ligion, for the church to remain neu-
trail on this question of socialism which
affects our very life is criminal. 1t is
also to be swept away in the over.
wheming floods of "a goddess mater
ialism.
Feeble attempts have been made to
show that Jesus was Socialist. Moth.
ing could be farther from the truth,
and He Himself would be the first to
reject the teachings of modern social
ism and His anger would flame against
as when He attacked the errors of
His day. Christ taught the sacredness
OF property; He forever sanctified the
home and family by being born of
woman and becoming a member of a
Nazareth family. One of His last acts
on His cross OF blood and pain was
to provide for the care of His aged
mother by committing her to the per-
sOnal care OF His beloved disciple. St.
John.
Christ honored the family, knowing
it was of God, and any teaching which
tends to break home ties. either by
the annulment of the laws of inherit
ance or otherwise, strikes directly at
Him and at His teachings.
II is a poor thing to substitute an
economic or political platform such as
socialism is for a spiritual principle
What Jesus taught was stewardship,
not socialism
1t is because the Nonpartisan
League is really form OF materialstic
socialism founded on the MarXiaT
idea that the church is uniting to fighi
1t. This fight will be waged with in
creasing might and courage. until thr
dread menace of socialism. whethe'
called by Economic Determinism. Nor
partisan League or any other name
is put 10 rout