CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM
sir,-" Christian" quotes the Scripture as follows: St. Matthew depicts Christ as a King, Mark as a servant, Luke as the Ideal Man, John as the Divine Son of God. The third of these quotations upsets "Christian’s" attempt to discredit socialism as a Christian principle. An Ideal Man would not live in luxury while his fellow countrymen lived in squalor and semi-starvation, such as occurred in New Zealand during the slump. The campaign for Christian order that does not make socialism its foundation is doomed to failure; when extremes of wealth and poverty exist, Christianity is impossible to the majority,
The beacon light to which the eyes of countless millions are turned is socialism allied to practical, not make-believe, Christianity. Has it not beca written in the Holy Bible that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, 6/3317 (Ruapuna).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 177, 13 November 1942, Page 3
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160CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 177, 13 November 1942, Page 3
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