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To the Editor:

To the Editor:
In Matthew tenth cnapter and
thirty-fourth verse are these words:
Think not that 1 am come to send
peace on earth: 1 came not to send
peace, but a sword" Read this text
over several times and notice how
strong is the language Jesus uses
here. Christ meant business when
He spoke these words. To show that
He did; in the next verse He says:
For I am come to set man at va
rance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother
These words were spoken by Jesus
to his disciples, as He was preparing
them to go forth and preach His Cos
pei to every creature. May I say
. mere, that Jesus instructing His dis
ciples about their life's work told them
as they went about their work: PRO
vide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass,
in your purses. Nor scrip for your
journey, neither two coats, neither
shoes, nor yet slaves; for workman
) is worthy of his meat" Would to God
! 1 could burn, with the fire of Heav-
| Ell, those words into the hearts and
. COnsciences of the rich of our country
/ who pay only a slave wage to men
; and women and even little children
! who are toiling away their precious
! lives in dirty poverty, in order that a
few rich may live in solid comfort.
Conditions in Jesus day we:r about
as they are today in America. Jesus
! saw no hope for peace. He saw til ,
crown of thorns pressed upon His
brow, and felt the blood tricklc down
! His cheeks. He fclt the weight o.
! that heavy old cross as He jOurncyet
UP Calvery, where He knew a shame
f! full death awaited Him. But he did
not falter for all that, but Numbered
j; to His own and all following genera
tons: II came not to send peace, buc
| a sword"
My dictionary says peace means:
+, freedom Of the mind from harass m
cares or demands. Think of that and
remember the millions of fathers an
mothers in America today who cannot
| provide for their loved ones the ordi-
nary necessities of life, and that foc
no reason of theirs Have they any
peace? Millions of boys and girls
| just out of school can't find work are
horded in great camps far away from
the home influences as they work on
some New Deal alphabet. Are they
free from harassing cares? Absolute
| ly no. They are like shipwrecke1
! people simply clinging to one last
] hope. And so it is with a hundred
; million people in our country today.
Why all this pain and poverty in the
| richest country on earth? Why all
! this want in the midst of plenty? Just
! two reasons; Ignorance and Greed
have named them in the order of their
evil effect.
Nearly two thousand years have
passed s.nce Jesus spoke the words I
have quoted above, yet we see but
| little change in human nature. In
America today we have a man for
President who has done far more for
the people than any we ever had be-
p! fore but he is denounced and hated by
the rich and learned for Their efforts
to make lighter the burden of the toi.-
ing masses. jesus had the chief
priests, the elders, and the pharisees
20 hound his every step, and hinder in
every way they could His efforts to
lift up His fellow man. TIL bunch
represented the oiganizei wealth o.
hat far off day. They cared nothing
for the suffering of the produc ne
lass SO long as they were able to keep
them supplied with the best of all the
good things of this world
So it is in our day: God give Us
Franklin D. Roosevelt who is trying
to lift up the brothers and sisters of
Jesus to a higher plane of living but
organized wealth cries; away with
him cruelty him and release unto US
Hoover or Landon Even one of OIL
United States Senators, josiah w.
Bailey, whom tho poor Baptist o
North Carolina had sucked and care
for in his tender yeas, wants ou
great President destroyed He has
turned against his helpers of foime
years and joined himself tn their
enemies. And as far as his small
brain and narrow heart will let him
Is doing all he can to keep the great
producing class in the poverty of ages
passed. Like Senator Bailey our Gov
erncr is truly on the side of the rich.
In radio talk some days ago Hoey
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