Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-28
BY Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain United States Senate.

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sary to make it possible that the Chris
tan revolution and the spurious Com
munist revolution for the time being,
in this dread atomic day, may together
occupy the planet, this article does not
deal. What military strength must be
massed to face the increasing might of
communism around the earth Is not
the legitimate concern of this column.
But it becomes crystal clear that both
these systems cannot finally survive.
To paraphrase Lincoln, and in a vaSter
sense than he could know, this world
cannot remain half slave and half
free. Let us say 1t bluntly: The foul
thing the Kremlin symbolizes must be
destroyed. It must perish from the
earth-but not just by guns or bombs.
This heinouS incarnation Of demoniac
perversion must be pierced by the sword
of the truth which makes men free.
The most devastatingly explosive
thing in the world is truth. Again and
again, history proves that there is no
force equal to the pulverizing impact
of facts. We sadly confess the denials
and betrayals of democracy by some
who march under it's banners. But that
is not the point. There are certain
yerities at the heart Of things which
can no more be abrogated than can
gravitation by some fanatics dictum.
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The Soviets inverted vocabulary
cannot revise the dictionary, so that
black becomes white. tyranny democ-
racy, peacemaking. warmongering.
This liberation enslavement. and
grotesque system built on dead mems
bones and on the scared souls CT the
living must be shattered by the glori-
Gus light of freedom. That means its
ultimate destruction. The mills of the
gods grind slowly. But they grind.
Gods truth, which dispelS darkness,
already has written on the walls of the
most obscene thralldom ever to con-
taminate great peoples the ancient
prophecy Of doom: Your covenant
with death shall be disannulled. Your
agreement with hell shall not stand.
Your refuge of lies shall be swept away.
When the overlooking scourge shall
pass through. We shall be trodden down
by 1t. The mouth of the Lord hath
spoken It,"
In the light Of that Judgment it fol-
lows that we cannot accept any truce
except as stage in the war that knows
no retreat. Appeasement of this malig-
nifty must be resisted as virtue turns
from the devil. We deal with an in
satiable leopard which cannot change
its spots. Compromise is impossible.
Only eternal vigilance can save us from
acceding to suggestions of a trickery
which to sign would mean the sure
doom of our Republic and all that the
free world holds dear.
The Russian bear, subtle and cum
ming. presents a global threat. For
that beast. as with us. it is all or Moth
ing. May the God of truth give us a
new breed of Rudyard Kiplings, to
see now what he diScerned so clearly
a half century ago. Concerning that
same marauding bear that prophet
poet warned:
When he stands up like tired man,
tottering near and near,
When he stands up as pleading, in Udr-
ering, mdn-brute ouiSe,
When he uetlS the hate and cunning OF
his little. siCiniSh eyes.
When he ShorS as seeking quarter, With
poWs like hands in prayer,
That is the time OF peril, the time OF
the truce OF the bear.