Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
Cleric Warns
Against Idea
H-bomb IsGod
Ceiling Tests vitoI
Ignores Teaching OIL
Christ, He Asserts


A nation that tries "to play
God" with the hydrogen bomb
may perish. a Washington Meth
edist clergyman warned yester-
day.
The Rev. G. Custer Cromwell,
pastor of Brookland Methodist
Church, told his congregation
that whoever excuses the H
bomb tests as essential for the
defense Of America forgets the
lessons Christ taught.
Are nations autonomous with
regard to God?" he asked. ma
tons as well as individuals come
under the law of Christ that he
who would save his life will
lose it.
Pagan powers that did not
know this fundamental law have
crumbled to dust. Can this ma
ton, which knows the law. con-
tinue to exist if it ignores it?"
Island People Mentioned.
The minister also urged that
more care should be taken for
the people in the area where the
tests have taken place.
God is the Father of all
people, and the people in those
Islands are also His people," he
said. Although they are small
and weak, they also have His love
and we should consider them in
testing the bomb in their areas"
Mr.. Cromwell added that if
there is IAN opportunity to help
people who have been injured by
these explosions, we should help"
The speaker called on people
to stand up and be counted"
on the question of continuing
the atom bomb tests.
I'VE should stand up and be
counted in our position, what
ever it is, he declared. eff we
are in the minority on the ques-
ton. we should still make our
position known. We should let
our representatives in Congress
and elsewhere know where we
stand"
New Moral Questions Seen.
Another Protestant minister,
the Rev. Charles D. Kean of
Epiphany Episcopal Church, said
the atomic bombs have raised
new questions of morality.
ut is as important to know
the use to which the atomic
bomb is put as to know how to
bring it about" he claimed.
AS a result, Mr.. Kean said
there must be a new appreciation
of personality "as the necessary
decomposition to any serious
scientific inquiry at all.
GAS important as the prob
lens of force and object may be
in the physical world, even more
important are the problems of
sin and faith, of fear and love.
God invites us to live in this
world of personality where we
can meet Him and love each
other, and discover that here is
where the handspring of life it
self is to be found"
Priest Scores Red Leaders.
A Catholic priest yesterday
charged the Soviet leaders with
deliberately seeking the COM
plete degradation of man" and
"the reign of the devil" in their
prosecutions.
The Very Rev. Msgr. Philip M.
Hannah, chancellor of the WASH
ington Archdiocese, pointed out
that in the past religious per-
secutions were mostly "a con-
tention about the identity of
God" and the very act of per-
secution was based on a belief
in the existence of a God"
mot until the Communist
leaders Marx, Lenin, Stain and
their followers launched their
persecution of all believers in
God has a group of humans re-
peated the arch-crime of the
angel Lucifer who revolted
against God himself" he said.
In their complete dedication
to evil they have surpassed what
was hoped to be beyond the
mind and will even of fallen
man, for the Christian Church
in its prayers for its persecu-
tors considered them as not
knowing what they did,"
MSgr. Hannah said the per-
secutionS are in 1.-The moral
field" and in this field the ulti-
mate weapons are those of
prayer and grace. And in this
kind of battle the Church has
never lost nor can it lose if it
but uses the weapons given by
Christ
The priest spoke at a high
mass in st. Patrick'S Catholic
Church, Tenth and G streets
NV.
Special prayers were said
here and in other churches of
the Washington Archdiocese for
those being prosecuted for their
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