The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
'HERESY trial
AN EYE-OPENER'
BISHOP brown
Hereto Takes Stand
With Communists

my sympathies are all with
the Communist movement"
Bishop William Montgomery
Brown told the DAILY WORK.
Err in an interview, during
which Bishop Brown denounced
Mobilization Day" and de-
clared for the abolition of class
rule thru the principles of Com
lnunism.
Bishop Brown declared his
defense against the charge of
heresy is a fight against the
s'supernaturalistic representa-
tions of the Bible, and a fight to
free the Church from the handi-
cap of uncertain liberalism.
Talks Of Heresy Trial.
He declared that the heresy trial
Cleveland, where he was found
guilty of heresy by an ecclesiastical
eourt of the Protestant Episcopal
Church last May, Opened the eyes
Pf many to the fact that the church
has no revelation from God thru Moses
ind Paul that she can and dares to
oppose to the revelation of nature to
the same end thru, say Darwin and
Marx"
Russia is the hope of the world"
Bishop Brown declared. He com
lnended the Soviet government for
their liberal religion under the sway
bf the new church set up after the
workers revolution.
When asked to discuss politics,
Bishop Brown indicated his prefer
pnce for the Communist ticket. When
asked whether or not he thought a
prominent member of the socialist
larty in Ohio would ever progress in
70 Communism, he answered: well,
hardly think so, he is lawyer, you
anow."
Bishop Brown gave the DAILY
WORKER his definition Of religion
Ind told how religion is related to
politics. Religion is the desire and
determination to make the most out
lf life" said Brown. Politics is the
yffort to find the way to realize that
iesire. But the trouble is the poll
fcians and preachers of our day do
lot help us to do this.
Truth is a fact so interpreted, with
)egard to conduct, as to help us make
he most out of life, and a fact is
lomething which nature does. The
lnly facts which exist are found in
nature.
Halls Abolition of Classes.
ut is deplorable that under the
present system capital grinds down
he struggling worker and makes him
i've as he does not want to live. AS
Ong as there are classes of society
lighting each other you will have
suffering. Under Communism classes
will be abolished and the spirit of
cooperation will rule"
His own controversy, Bishop Brown
laid is: "a fight to keep the church
loors open to the sons and daughters
VI this new age Of science"
The Bishop pleaded his case as a
ltruggle for "The cause of liberty to
earn, live and teach the truth &C
sording to ones own conviction, and
10 assist the new, urging movements
10 bring the church down to our day
Ind understandings, and open its
portals to all folks everywhere"
Fight His Book.
The attempt to prosecute him for
being the author of "Christianism and
Communism" Bishop Brown declared,
WAS an attempt to do all that could be
lone towards shutting the doors of the
khurch in the face of every true SON
and daughter of this age of science"
He stated that Mobilization Day.
IS Just like any other defense day
which attempts to prepare the world
Tor unjust and capitalistic wars.
my trial will not be concluded
except along thN lines laid down by
The Defense" he continued. (which
means the subordination of every
logma to the progressive revelations
VI science.
Bars the Supernatural.
I'm the realm of biology we are
Governed by. natural laws, so in the
lealm of sociology it is the same.
There is no room for the superna-
ural in this age. We must come
within the realm of the natural in all
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