Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-07
Letters to The Star !.

right to criticize politicians for acting
high-handed and contrary to Christian
charity. They have the duty. That is
their job. II they fail in that Job
through fear or expediency, they should
be criticized as the spokesman of God
on earth They would be cowardly.
They would be traitors to Gods domin-
ion. They would betray mems souls
trusted to their care.
Let the materialists have the decency
to criticize those of their ilk. Let them
keep their atheistic bigotry to them
selves. This is still God-believing and
presumably God-fearing Nation, and
the clergy are Gods spokesman When
national laws conflict with Gods laws,
as they did under Hitler, and as they
are doing under Stain, we won't have
to worry about anything, because we
won't be able to call our souls our own.
We will be cattle in all but name.
Fear God and keep His Command
ments: for this is the whole duty of
Man."-Eccl. XII. Is. Mr.. Atheist. stay
in character!
J. d. Michael.
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I have read with interest the recent
letters concerning the Mccarthy, Jen-
ner, Velde denunciations from promi-
nent Washington pulpits The prevail
ing cry is, Preacher, stick to your
religion, but keep out of politics." This
is indeed an old cry familiar to any one
who knows his Old Testament. The
same complaint was hurled at Isaiah
and jeremiah because they, too, con-
demned the political evils of the time.
Let it be pointed out that it is the
preachers business to ferret out evil or
injustice in every area of our common
life. If this is not his business, then
politicians are exempt from the moral
code by which the rest of us are
measured.
The clergy are trained not only as
pastors and priests, but also as proph-
cts. Their prophetic ministry is to in
terpret the law of God to the whole of
our common life. In this Office, they
are fully qualified to apply moral judg-
ment wherever it is expedient Let
there be more preachers with as much
prophetic zeal as we have recently wit
messed.
Robert E. Sargent.
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You seem to be having a flood of let
tiers criticizing the protests of Methodist
Bishop Oman, Dean Sayre of the
Washington Cathedral, and DR.. Davies
of the ALI Souls Unitarian Church,
against the witch hunters who are de-
stroying to considerable extent public
confidence in our neighbors, our relig-
ious leaders and our educational in
situations When they have done their
perfect work it will be easy for commu-
nism to take over the United States This
group of witch hunters iS-in my opin-
ion-helping the Communist cause more
than any other group in our Nation.
doubt there being dozen colleges
or church groups in the United States
that would not cast out any Communist
found within themselves upon being
furnished with evidence upon which any
responsible church or college board
would take action; but the witch hunt
erS never furnish such evidence, they
conf1ne their activities to endleSSly yell
ing Communist" at every one who dis
agrees even slightly with their ideas.
OF course there have always been
large numbers of church members who
think that ministers should never dis
cuss public affairs no matter how COR
rupt they may be, but should devote
all their energies to Saving souls"
There are others who believe that all
Christians are to considerable extent
their brothers keepers and should have
some part in trying to "Christianize the
social order" belong to the latter
group.
F. L. L. Hitler,