The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-16

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 heart to see here soul dying by the millions. AS Christ gazes at the Goddess children of Russia, his mind must go back to that winsome scene when children nestled in His out stretched arms, and His kindly voice spoke; Suffer the little children to come unto me" How sad must be the heart of Christ as he gazes upon the womanhood of Russia, slaves of the fields, serfs of the machines, wo- men who were once ruled by the Virgin of the Square of Moscow where now a blasphemer has scrawl- ed the words of Marx. Religion is the opium of the people" How sad must be His heart as He looks upon the men of Russia, men chained to the wheels of industry, men cowed and craven as the deluge of atheism sweeps over them and sweeps their children into organism. Again he must repeat, What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul" One-tenths of the people in the world! They have no hope in this life; they are given no future life in which to hope.
 Such is Russia without God! But it is not only Russia's war on God. As we said in the beginning, and as Earl Browder has sair. religion and Communism "are wholly incom- patible." It is by no means the in- tentions of the Communist Com missars to confine their activities to Russia. The prolonged existence of Communism in Russia alone is irn- possible. In "Aims and Methods of Anti-Religious Propaganda" publish ed by the Soviet Government we read, "The anti-religious campaign of the Soviet Government must not be restricted to Russia; it must be carried on througout the whole world" The War is worldwide. The Communist International is an or- ganization sworn to world revolution and world war on God.
 Moscow! In his Illuminating book Moscow san Voiles" Douillet writes, At Moscow in tenement No. 2 of the Loubianka, where are the head quarters of the Ogpu, on the fifth floor there is room No. 816. A large detailed map of Europe hangs on wall of this room. Every country is covered with little numbered flags; each one corresponds to region in which an agent delegated by the Ogpu works. have seen this map with my own eyes, and can judge of the power of this organize net work which covers the whole of Europe like deadly spiders web. I have seen registers of the agents and spies who are working, design ated by the number on these flags have felt chill in my heart in seeing with what an intensity this networks envelopes Europe. There is not town, and hardly a village where there is not one of these Communist agents. In each of these agents future Cheka exists secret ly. It collects information, multi plies its espionage, undermines the power of the country, draws up black-lists ofthose who must be dealt with on the great day. This power works without useless noise, silently, secretly, destroying the roots of the existing state of things. It is a real work of ants, who are preparing the way for the dictator ship of blood"
 These words were written in 1929. Were they true? Spain has proved them. Underground propaganda went on there for years, preparing the way for the dictatorship of blood. The day came and Red Spain repeated the horrors of the Russian Terror. Repeated? No! Spain's dic- tatorship of blood excelled anything the world has ever seen and if Mos- COW did not create a Soviet Spain, 1t was not for lack of Soviet violence Soviet mass murded, and Soviet hatred of religion-all of them developed by their experience of Russia. Four hundred thousand is a conservative estimate of the number of Christian men and women put to death because they would not lift the clenched fist and curse the Saviour. Arnold Lunn, brilliant Catholic apologist, estimated last December the number of aSsassina- tions among the religious orders and the secular clergy as between ten and fourteen thousand. Truly the gates Of Hell were losed against the Church, but Christ kept His pro- mise and they did not prevail.
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 My dear friends, Communism is the sworn enemy of every nation in the world. It is inhuman If 1t is anti-religious. It is inhumar. If it is to survive 1t must extinguish the lamp in the sanctuary. It must destroy all religious tradition. It must darken the world by excluding the light of God. It must thrust its hand into our very breast and silence the voice of conscience. It must change the whole purpose of our lives. It must bring us down from heaven and bury us in this world of mud and mire. The Com- missar of Public Education in speech at Moscow cried ou, we hate Christianity and Christians: even the best of them are our worst enemies. Christian love Is an ob- stacle to the revolution. Down with the love of our reighbors. What we want is hatred. We must learn how to hate, and it is only then that we shall conquer the world"
 The cry of the Communist is, 'Down!" "Downp "Downl' Down with the wealthyl Down with the Church! Down with God! Our reply as Christians is up from hate Up from deiitruction Up to lovel Upi beyand the sstarsl Up to God for