DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

CHILD ATHEISM (Copyright, 1921) non- we are threatened with a movement among the school children in favour of Atheism. A gentleman addressing a congress of parents and teachers called attention to what he termed anti-Christ societies organised in various cities. They are all said to be directed by the Society of the Godless in New York City n was made up of boys and girls of the high schools. It calls itself the Junior Atheists or Angles of the Devil. Their claim is that there is no God. that there is no Heaven and no hell, and that :he church is the most dangerous institution in society. Its objective is to remove all clergymen in the next generation and to teach that all the happiness there is is in this life, for .there is no other. There is no danger that humanity is going to change its instincts because of the efforts of a few children. Humanity has the lixed belief in a future life and manv of its noblest specimens have been actuated by this ■dea. Nobody has been able to prove or to disprove it, for the simple reason that logic cannot touch it. It lies deeper than logic. It is an ineradicable instinct. People are much better off when they act in accordance with it. Perhaps some day an emancipated race may be able to keep lip its morality S-Qd act decently without the assistance of this belief. But that day is yet far ahead of us if it is to come at all.