The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-02

they are not all in China or India
 The United States has its own. share of pagans, educated as well as uneducated,- and more than it's quota of so-called Christians, who are only nominal Christians and who deny in practice as well as theory the fundamental dogma of Christian faith, which is the Dl- vinity of Jesus Christ.
 LOYALTL and SERVICE are the watchwcrds of Christianity. There is no loyalty without rever- ence and there is no service with out love, This is the final test of Christianity. The spirit of our own age and country is one Of gross irreverence. One hundred twenty millions of people, and over half of them protesting no kind of religious belief. Into their lives, there enters, neither worship of God, nor serious thinking about the fundamentals of Christianity. TWenty-seven million boys and girls receiving no systematic moral or religious training! In the last 10 years, it has been estimated that 100000 children have been eff fected by the divorce of their par ents. This modern belief of our own American people brings with it no real solution of the problems of the nation,-for never was there time, even, with all our vaunted progress, peace and prosperity, when men possessed so little con- tentment and so little respect for all law, civil as well as divine.
 Small wonder then that we hear the cry for LAW ENFORCE MENT. Small wonder then that we hear the appeal, RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION" Sixty-five thousand laws on our statute books and little respect existing for law and order! The return to better things must come, not through legislation, but through religion. God gave only Ten Commandments to all the world, Christ ratified them in the Sermon on the Mount, and the world has failed to ob- serve them, and in self-defense has : set up laws of it's own making, many of them in direct defiance to the Law of God and Christ. | BACK TO GOD." BACK TO CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH" BACK TO CHRISTIAN FAITH i, These are the watchWords that must resound from coast to coast and from year to year, from every ] Christian pulpit, and find ulti- mate acceptance in every heart. i These are the watchWords of the i Catholic Church in its commission to this nation, as well as to other l nations of the world. "The Peace ] of Christ in the Reign of Christ Upon what does the Catholic Church rely in this gigantic strug- | gle? Neither upon the strength of her laity, nor the zeal of her cler- igy, nor the sympathy of the world Her strength comes from far different source. A little child was born in Bethlehem 1900 years ago A few days after His birth, the aged Simeon, prophesied that He
 was set for the fall and for the resurrection of many and for a l sign to the contradicted. The cruel Herod, in his efforts to end the life of this helpless babe, caused the death of the innocents ir Judea. But there was protecting hand over the Divine infant. This child, when grown to mans estate made no promise to His followers of exemption from opposition ane persecution. Rather did He say
 If they have persecuted Me, they
 will also persecute you; the ser want is not greater than the Mas
 ter" And it is in His own voice
 we hear the awful yet consoline
 words: "The hour cometh, wher whosoever killeth you, will thinl that he doth a service to God"
 And yet, among all the conquer. CTS of the world, He, the Galilean stands first in the number of His