The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-19
PRAYER Day for Russia

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Prayer Day for Russia
This is the day set aside by the pope for prayers for
Russia, as a result of the communist oppression OF all
eligions-Christian, Judaic and Mohamnedan. Sectar-
ian lines have been effaced by the appeal. Other
churches than the Catholic will join in giving utterance
to this spiritual influence in the hope that a world soli-
citude may yet overcome the orgy of ungodliness bear
ing so heavily on the soul and conscience OF the MIL
lions of believers in the obsessed land.
Already the oppression visited on the pious and rev.
erent who cling to their faith in a supreme deity has
borne good fruit in thus uniting such varied creeds IN a
common brotherhood for a common purpose. 1t is good
thus to have created a united front against the boosted
communist goal, which is to conquer the world and i'm
pose unbelief everywhere. Communism requires a COM
plete liquidation of the God-idea, whether expressed IN
Christianity, Judaism or The soviet
regime repeatedly has expressed the intention to extend
this integral communism to the entire world. Christian
civilization thus is threatened by the fanatical political
creed of the ~bolsheviki wherever 1t leaves a crevice in its
ethical structure for penetration of the Russian desecra-
ton.
Publcists who have been making a study of the Rus
sian phenomenon are inclined to ascribe 1t to dethrone-
ment of the spiritual reason Of Lenin, the Greater OF COM
nlunist Russia. The execution OF his elder brother, Alex
ander, in 1887, by the czarist government for attempted
4C8NNIN QVA - 6"~AA vS~~S - ~"~s
and clandcstine agitation and b~rooding suffered by
vladimir are believed to have developed in Lenin the
mania now manifested by the followers he inspired. in
the combination Of communism and religious annihila-
ton. The slaughter of the Czarist Romanoff family In
the cellar at Ekaterinburg is regarded as the first evil
dencc Of his long deferred maniacal revenge and the
launching of his premeditated attack on the soul of the
Russian people as the climax of this frenzy for venge-
ance.
"PoIiuiOr =" IN urifnC in his work "S0CialSm and RE.
lig;on," lis an opiate for the people, a sort of spiritual
vodka meant to make the slaves of capitalism tread in
the dust their human form and their aspirations to a
semi-decent existence In his petulant letter to Maxim
Cork, whom lie suspected of an sunderland religious
ness" he warned his friend: rs it not horrible to think
what you will come to in this way? God-seeking differs
from God-creating or God-making and other things Of
that kind much as a yellow devil differs from a blue
devil"
Comrade Zinoviev, when president Of the Third Inter-
national, more than once voiced the official attitude of
the soviet state. Thus, on June II, 1929, he declared to
q group of visiting English and Swedish Protestants:
sour program is based on scientific materialism, which
includes Internationally the necessity of propagating
atheism"
Again at Christmas, 1924, he Illuminated against the
deity: "We shall pursue our attacks on Almighty God
In due time and in an appropriate manner. We are
confident we shall subdue him in his empyrean. We
shall fight him wherever he hides himself, but we must
go about such a question as into religious propaganda
more carefully in the future. Our campaign against God
and religion must be carried out only in a pedagogic way,
not by violence or force"
Madame Krupskaya, Lenin,s widow, who is reverenced
highly as continuing the tradition of her husband,
speaks as clearly: 1.-The need is imperative that the
state resume systematic anti religious work among chill
dren. We must make our school boys and girls not mere
ly non-religious, but actively and passionately anti-reli-
gious. 4. The home influence of religious parents must
be vigorously combated."
Lunacharsky, soviet minister of public instruction, is
franker still, and speaks with an authority that pre-
cludes further augmentation. In setting the powerful
and subsidized Association Of the Goddess" on its way in
1925. he declared: with all my heart I wish the God
less every success in its fight against the repugnant
specter of God which has caused such diabolic harm to
all humanity throughout history"
On another occasion the minister of public instruction
went on record as follows: I'VE hate Christianity and
the Christians; even the best Of them must be regarded
rs our worst enemies. They preach love of ones neigh
Dor and mercy, which is contrary to our principle. Chris
tian love is an obstacle to the development Of the revolu-
ton. Down with love of ones neighbor. What we need
is hatred. We must know how to- hate; only thus shall
we conquer the universe"
OF all this a noted cleric has summed up the con-
clusion:
Zone may safely rest his contention on these official
announcements of responsible members of the soviet
government. Wherever the spearhead Of communism
p~enetrates, its shaft is clutched by an iron fist sworn
to smash all the affairs Of Chrstendom."
Prepare for Cleanup Time
The cleanup sponsors are shopping around In Bis
marck, laying their plans for an early polishing Of the
city. The presence Of robins probably has stimulated
their reaction to the untidy appearance in which each
tiaw Of snowfall reveals the streets. lawns and alleys
Hence the calls the Lions have made on the Boy Scouts
1or the usual assistance in conducting the annual drive
Clear-up signifies more, however, than mere remova
ef winter litter from the premises. It means also K