CHRIST AND SOCIALISM
Sir-I cannot agree with the statement of a correspondent in this week’s Listener, that Jesus Christ was a social ist. I fail to find in the Scriptures any evidence of this fact. St. Matthew depicts Christ as a King; Mark, as a servant; Luke, as the Ideal Man; John, as the divine son of God. There is not an atom of socialism in His teaching; in fact, there is no room for it in Christianity, nor was. it thought of in His day. The Sermon on the Mount is the policy of His Kingdom. He came not as a reformer, nor as a Robin Hood, but as the world’s redeemer. He did not drive the moneychangers out of the temple because they made money, but because they abused
the house of prayer. Nor was this the reason why the Jews crucified Him. They crucified Him because He declared himself to be the Son of God. Christianity is the great beacon light for all men, of all nations. Socialism is a flickering match.
CHRISTIAN
(Auckland),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 174, 23 October 1942, Page 3
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177CHRIST AND SOCIALISM New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 174, 23 October 1942, Page 3
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