fro//, //I tffiP • - TRAITORS IN THE PULPIT By KENNETH GOFF TRAITORS In The Pulpit and Treason Toward God “As for the religious workers, the Communist Party does not make the abandonment of their religion a condition of joining the Party; even though it carries an educational work, which is anti- religious. We have preachers; preachers active in Churches, who are members of the Communist Party. There are Churches in the United States, where the Preachers preach Communism from the pulpits, in a very primitive form, of course.” —Communist Party, U.S.A. By KENNETH GOFF Act Now! In this book, we have hardly scratched the surface of the Red Trojan Plot to destroy the Churches of America. Many books could he written, thousands of names could he brought to light hut it has been our hope and prayer, that this book would be an eye opener, which would alert you to the danger that lies ahead ; and that you will make yourself a Committee of one, to examine your own Church to find out whether Com- munism is making inroads in it. If you find the slightest evi- dence of Red intrigue, write us giving full details and enclose any literature, which you believe we ought to see. We suggest that you buy quantities of the book 'Traitors in the Pulpit,’ and send them to other Communities. Advise your friends to pass the book along after reading it. Through your co-operation, we can awaken every City, Village and Ham- let in America. The hour for Action is here ! COPYRIGHT 1946 KENNETH GOFF P. 0. BOX 116 ENGLEWOOD, COLO. Price 50 cents a copy; 5 copies $2.00 Introduction Atheism is a world-wide movement. The communists are the creators and supporters of it throughout the world. The greatest stronghold of atheism today is Russia ; although its poisonous fangs spread into every section of the world. While this fight against Christ can be traced back, centu- ries, the present day organized movement is being carried out by the Communist Internationale, and its fellow-traveler organ- ization. A writer once said, “If Robert Ingersoll were living today, he wouldn’t be considered an agnostic, but an advanced theo- logian. This statement contains an abundance of truth, inas- much as we can look about us, and see millions spiritually dead, because they have been overfed with theological rat biscuits. Thousands of our pulpits today are filled with blind lead- ers of the blind men who are servants to Communism, modern thought, and man-made philosophies, rather than of God. These preachers take the words of men and speak them as if they were from God, yet they take the words of God and speak them as if they were of men. Yes, thousands of our pulpits are occupied by preachers who wittingly or unwittingly, have sold out to the materialistic ideals of the Communist theory. They no longer preach the gospel of Christ, but rather, sermons of high-sounding words, which when analyzed in the light of Christian teaching, fail to give support to the Scriptures, and raise a question in the mind of the listener as to the existence of the Deity, and Virgin birth of Christ. It can readily be said of them, quoting the Scriptures, II Timothy 3:3, “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away;” also in II Corinthians 11:13, 15, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, trans- forming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed as the ministers of righteous- ness, whose end shall be according to their works;” also in II Timothy 4:3, 4 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves, teachers, having itching ears ; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables/ * Eugene Dennis, leading American communist, once said, “These liberal chameleons are of great value at present, but once our goal is reached, they will either have to change their belief, or pay the price with their heads along with the rest.” The infiltration of the communists within the American Churches is growing daily. Browder has boasted, that there are now already over 8,000 communists in the pulpits of our land. This same strategy within the churches of Russia helped foster the revolution and will succeed here unless Christians begin now to identify and drive out the enemies of Christ. 0 While I was a member of the Communist Party, we re- reived training on how to work in churches, and guide them to the left in their thinking. Following our training, we were as- signed to leading churches to carry on this task of boring from within. As an example of the cleverness of these God-hating atheists, I can cite you an incident, which occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two young girls were assigned by the Young Com- munist League to bore-from-within the Epworth League of one of this city’s largest churches. They soon become quite popular, and were elected to leading league offices; one of the girls hav- ing charge of worship. On one Sunday evening the Epworth League held a dis- cussion on ‘Christ’s Alternative to Communism’ by E. Stanley Jones. We were notified of the meeting, and^ten of our com- rades attended, and successfully led the discussion along commu- nist lines, until we had Christ, if He were here on earth today, leading strikes, and marching on Washington, D. C., to over- throw the established government. One red-haired fellow in the Church, arose and asked the Pastor of the Church, whether this was a meeting of the Epworth League or the Young Commu- nist League. The pastor thought this was a very irregular ques- tion due to the fact that Communists don’t believe in God; there- fore don’t attend church. He assured the young man that this was a good Christian discussion. To fully convince this young man, he asked any communists in the room to please raise their hands. There were ten of us there, but not a hand was raised. — 4— The pastor smilingly turned and said, “Just as I told you, there are none here. ’ ’ This is just one example of what is taking place in thousands of churches throughout our land. E. Yaroslavesky, president of the Militant Atheists of the Soviet Union, in his book, ‘Religion in the U.S.S.R.’, boasts of the fact that religion is on, the decline in the United States, and that new anti-religious movements are springing up daily. He concludes his hook with the statement, “REMEMBER THAT THE STRUGGLE AGAINST RELIGION IS A STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM.” We find this statement simplified by the defrocked Episcopal clergyman, Bishop Brown, (now deceased), who wrote a pamphlet supporting the Communists, and titled it, ‘BANISH GOD FRjOM THE SKIES AND CAPITALISM FROM THE EARTH. ’ There have been many cases in the last few years of men impersonating themselves, in the rank of Officer, in our mili- tary force; when these men were apprehended, they were ar- rested and fined heavily. Wearing a uniform does not make a man a member of our military service; one must be inducted in the proper manner, and must subscribe to, and obey the articles set forth by the Military Command. When one fails to follow these orders, he receives a dishonorable discharge. This ought also to hold true to those in the service of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Men like Rev. L. M. Birkhead, and his ilk should resign from the Christian ministry, as they no longer believe, and uphold the teachings set forth in the Holy Bible. To retain the title of Reverend, and teach the theories of these Christ blaspheming, Bible burning communists, is rank treachery, and should be dealt with as such. The House-Committee on un-American Activities, after long research, published a list of questions and answers on Com- munism and Religion. We wish to quote a few which deal di- rectly with the Organizations and personalities to be discussed in this book. QUOTE 60. “Are Communists trying to corrupt religion in the U.S.A.? Yes. 61. What is their method? The Communist Party of the United States assigns mem- bers to join churches and church organizations, in order to — 5— take control where possible, and in any case to influence thought and action toward Communist ends. It forms “ front organizations, ’ ’ designed to attract “fel- low travelers with religious interests. It tries to get prominent religious leaders to support Com- munist policies, disguised as welfare work for minorities or op- pressed groups. In the words of Earl Browder, former head of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. : “. . . By going among the religious masses, we are for the first time able to bring our anti-religious ideas to them.” 62. What is a “front organization”? An organization created or captured by the Communists to do the Party’s work in special fields. The front organization is Communism’s greatest weapon in this country and takes it among people who would never willingly act as Party agents. 63. What is a “fellow traveler”? One who sympathizes with the Party’s aims and serves the Party’s purposes without actually holding a Party card. 64. How can I spot them? Many organizations have been listed as Communist fronts by the Attorney General and this Committee. You can get a list of these by writing to the House Committee on Un-Ameri- can Activities, Room 226, Old House Office Building, Washing- ton, D. C. To show up a fellow traveler, ask him to name ten things wrong with the United States and then ask him to name two things wrong with Russia. He will be on Russia’s side every time. 65. Are American Communists atheistic? Yes. 66. Can a Communist ever have religious beliefs? When he first joins the Party, a Communist may still have some religious faith but it soon goes or he fails as a Communist. 67. What happens to a religious person who turns Communist? The Party ridicules his religious ideals and dins atheist propaganda into his ears, day and night, in an attempt to con- vert him to atheism. 68. What if a new Communist refuses to renounce religion? Kicked out. 69. What happens to a person who gets kicked out of the Par- ty? * He is hounded for the rest of his life. — 6— 70. Have the Communists used blasphemous propaganda against the church? If there is any doubt in your mind as to the vicious and blasphemous propaganda Communists are using against religion, then go to your public library and read a typical example of it entitled “Goodbye, Christ, ” by Langston Hughes. It is so atrocious that we will not reproduce it here, but even so, it is mild compared to the atheist propaganda in Mos- cow. 71. How do Communists work among church people, since they themselves are such haters of religion? Communists are two-faced. In their secret Party meetings, they make plans to destroy religion. In public, they say religion and Communism should be friends and that both are working for the same goals. 72. Are there Communist clergymen? Unfortunately, yes. 73. Do they admit they are Communists? Some do, but except in special cases, the Party requires Communists to keep their membership secret. 74. Will you give an example of the “open" type of member- ship? The Rev. Claude C. Williams, a Presbyterian minister, whose congregation expelled him for Party activity. The Rev. Eliot White, retired Episcopalian minister, who served as a delegate to a Communist convention and lectured at Communist meet- ings. 75. Are they important? Not as important as the others who have joined the Com- munist fronts which the Attorney General and this committee have declared to be “subversive." 76. Do you mean that just because a clergyman joins or spon- sors one or two Communist fronts for one reason or another, he is playing Stalin’s game in America? No. We are talking about those clergymen who have over a period of years consistently followed the Party line and joined, not one or two fronts, but ten, twenty, or thirty. These are the core of agents the Party depends on in the religious field. 77. But couldn’t some of these clergymen be innocently mis- guided in their attempts to do good? Well, they have followed every crook and twist of the Com- — 7— munist Party line. Would you excuse that in your minister’s case ? 78. Is your Committee investigating religion? Certainly not. Religion is not under any sort of investiga- tion by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, nor is any sect, creed, church, or individual, so far as his religion is concerned. 79. Then what’s this pamphlet for? To help you protect your religion and faith from Commu- nist attack by showing you exactly what the Communists are up to. 80. But is Communism a “real” danger inside our churches? Here’s J. Edgar Hoover on the subject: I confess to a real apprehension, so long as Communists are able to secure ministers of the gospel to promote their evil work and espouse a cause that is alien to the religion of Christ and Judaism,. 81. Is Communist propaganda ever sneaked into church publi- cations? Yes. For instance, the Christian Register, official Unitari- an publication, has carried Earl Browder’s eyewash that a good Christian can be a Communist. It is significant that the minister responsible for doing this has since been removed from his editor- ship by the church. 82. Do Communist propagandists ever actually get before church groups as speakers? Yes. For example, the head of the Communist Party, on one occasion at least, spoke at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Only a few months ago, the Legislative Secretary of the Communist Party addressed a conference of 100 ministers in Washington, D. C. 83. What about church youth groups? Young Communists are ordered to join them. 84. Why? For two reasons: To win over youth to Communism and atheism, and to turn their groups into tools of the Communist Party. 85. Is this done openly? No. Communist youth, like Communist adults, work under cover. They won’t admit being Communists if you ask them unless and until their Party officers direct them to do so. 86. Is the YMCA a Communist target? — 8 — Yes. So is the YWCA. Also, church groups such as the Epworth League. 87. Do you mean every Epworth League or YWCA is a Com- munist hide-out? Of course not. But we do mean that Communists do dig into such groups any way and any time they can. We do mean they have dug into such groups, and are at it today. We do mean that if you want to keep your own organiza- tion fit for your own family’s membership, you had better stay on the alert. 88. How else do Communists spread atheism? Indirectly in Communists schools such as the Jefferson School of Social Science in New York, and the California La- bor School. Also in the atheistic schools for children operated through- out the country by the International Workers Order. 89. What is the People’s Institute of Applied Religion? One of the most vicious Communist organizations ever set up in this country. Declared subversive by the Attorney Gen- eral. 90. Where is it located and who are its officers? 41051/2 Third Avenue, South, Birmingham, Alabama. Rev. Claude C. Williams, director; Edna Joyce King, executive secretary ; Owen H. Whitfield and Winifred L. Chap- pell, associate directors; Carl Haessler, Calla E. Tennant, and Clara M. Vincent, trustees; Cedric Belfrage, research director. 91. What does it do? It teaches Communist ideas, pretending that they are Chris- tian ideas. 92. What is the Methodist Federation for Social Action? A tool of the Communist Party, denounced by numerous loyal American Methodists. It claims to speak for 17 Methodist Bishops and 4,000 clerics and laymen. Not an official church organization. 93. Where is it located and what is it trying to do? 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. Although strictly unofficial as a “church” organization, it is trying to use the prestige of the Methodist Church to promote the line of the Communist Party. 94. What is “The Protestant”? A magazine which fanatically spreads Communist propa- ganda under the guise of being a religious journal. — 9— I Its avowed purpose is to “build a bridge” between Chris- tendom and Communism. Boasts support of 6,000 ministers but not actually connected with any official religious organization. 95. Where is it published and who are the officers? It is published by Protestant Digest, Inc., at 521 5th Ave- nue, New York, New York. Editor: Kenneth Leslie; Associate Editors: James Luther Adams, John Hammond, Gerald Rich- ardson. ’ ’ The fact that these are the findings of an authorized gov- ernment investigation, ought to be an eye-opener to any skeptic, as he reads ,the documented evidence we now will present, con- cerning this diabolical intrigue to destroy the Churches of Amer- ica from within. — 10— CHAPTER I People’s Institute of Applied Religion A man in high authority in governmental service who is definitely in a position to know, recently told me that the Amer- ican Communists are making a more concerted effort than ever before to get their people into the various churches of America. The Communist Party has been urging its followers to join churches and to act in such a way that eventually they will be- come president of the congregation, youth leader, elder, deacon, or occupy some other place of influence. Some of these known radicals are given these important places by modernistic men of the cloth who know exactly what they are doing. Communism is the great deceiver in the world today. It contains the doctrines of satan, and, therefore, does not have to tell the truth nor ful- fill its promises. Many clergymen are aiding the communists. If the Red Revolution ever succeeds in America, these same red-aiding preachers will find that the communists have no more use for them. They will be liqui- dated and imprisoned, and their churches de- stroyed, closed, or turned into atheistic museums ; they will have a parallel fate to what will happen to those American clergy- men who are now bravely — and often with much ridicule battling atheistic communism. PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE OF APPLIED The Claude Clau- RELIGION sey Williams, a member Claude Williams, Director in good standing with the — 11— U. S. A. Presbyterian Church, is the spearhead of the Commu- nistic movement through religion. He is Director of the People ’s Institute of Applied Religion, Inc., which was headquartered in Suite 420 of the Transportation Building, 131 West Lafay- ette, Detroit 26, Michigan, a half block from the city hall. (Re- cently Mr. Williams moved his headquarters to Birmingham, Alabama. According to members of the church board over him, his support ran only until the end of May, 1946. Williams said farewell to Detroit officially at the beginning of June. It has not been ascertained at this writing whether the two facts are related to each other.) Two national church boards pay the salary of Williams and the Executive-Secretary, Calla E. Ten- ant. This group is but one of many found in cities all over the nation. It now instructs and ordains its own radical preachers after a few weeks of training. Recently I paid a visit to this office and while one of the women leaders of the Institute puffed away at her cigarette, she assured me that everything they did and everything Mr. Wil- liams wrote was from the Bible. She kept repeating between puffs : “It’s all from the Bible. It’s all from the Bible!” A casual reading of Williams’ biography will show that this man is not a true shepherd of Christ’s sheep, but is instead a genuine, modern Judas to his Lord. Supported From Moscow We have in our possession photostatic copies of a number of checks paid in one day to various communist organizations by the American dispenser of funds from Moscow. One of the larg- est checks for that particular day’s financial transaction goes to the DAILY WORKER, the official communist organ. Others are made out to the PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE OF APPLIED RELIGION, INC. Williams’ History Claude Clausey Williams was born in Tennessee, the son of Jess and Minnie Bell Vfilliams. His parents were extremely poor, but had the greatness of the full, fundamental salvation of Christ as is found in large parts of the Presbyterian Church. According to Belfrage ’s biography of Williams, his parents kept the faith and frequently admonished their son to get back on the right road. The biography gives the impression that Claude just patted them on the head with deep understanding of their fundamentalist ignorance. It is evident that unless Claude — 12— changes his ways, he will not meet his parents before the throne of grace. After much arguing with an inner voice, Claude finally con- sented to becoming a preacher. He went to college; served sev- eral parishes near his birthplace ; and finally received a call to Paris, Arkansas. During this time he came in contact with the modernistic writings of Harry Emerson Fosdick. These writings were the beginning of his slip-over from fundamentalism into modernism and eventually to the support of the communists. The entire biography ridicules fundamental religion as scorning the Negroes, being responsible for slavery, anti-semi- tism, fascism, etc. During the persecution that followed, Wil- liams was always aided by the members of Commonwealth Col- lege of Mena, Arkansas, which was a school for training com- munists, and which—after he had served as its director for a time—was closed by the State of Arkansas. The public testimony which is on file at the Attorney General’s office in the state capital, is so revealing of the activities of Commonwealth Col- lege, and so disgusting to the moral senses that it should not be read in mixed groups. During the investigation to see whether the school should be closed, it was amazing to find out which people all over the country, including some from red centers in Europe, came to the rescue of this little school, way down in Arkansas. It is amazing indeed to know that people that far away had ever heard of a school of this size unless it had some international signification. Before Williams was made director of the college, he had been ousted by the Bible-lovers of his Paris Church. Those who came to his defense were people he had lured to the church through pool hall tactics and preached to them a heaven here on earth to help them escape the hell which they were supposed to be enduring before Williams came to help them. Attacks Fundamentalists Much of the expensive literature put out by the Institute is loaded with attacks on the true Bible preachers of the day. The headlines say that the fundamentalists are the true fascists of America. In fact, the theory is urged that the common denom- inator of all American fascists is their fundamentalism in re- ligion. Some of the people attacked by this group and their friends in smear, includes: Bob Parr, Jack Munyon, Henry Grube, Jon J. Van Gorder, James S. McGaw, R. G. LeTourneau, Elizabeth Dilling, Harvey Morrison, William McGarrahan, J. — 13— Frank Norris, Walter A. .Maier, Leland L. Marion, Gerald L. K. Smith, N. R. Dower, Charles Coughlin, Gerald B. Winrod, Charles Fuller, H. Ed. Weinzierl, Ethel Willitts, Charles J. Fisher, B. M. Nottage, J. Rollings, Lem Stroud, Harry W. Lu- cas, Jimmie Johnson, Henry John Zoller, 0. W. Stucky, William Weston, Bernie Bullock, E. Ford, William S. Knudsen, etc. Youth for Christ Indicted There are undoubtedly many fundamentalist preachers who may disagree with some of the methods used by the YOUTH FOR CHRIST campaign. I do not believe, however, that any fundamentalist can deny that YOUTH FOR CHRIST is a truly fundamentalist undertaking. The rallies do not want modernists to preach for them. Recently Claude Williams while teaching a red school in Wisconsin indicted YOUTH FOR CHRIST as anti- Semitic. In an interview appearing in the CAPITAL TIMES and the WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, July 12, 1945, Wil- liams is quoted as saying: “The Youth for Christ movement is such a movement (a move- ment to mobilize for undemocratic purposes). Aimed at converting children to racial hatred and prejudice, it is anti-Semitic and anti- union. It is another Hitler youth movement.” Williams and Fundamentalism The quotations found in the rest of this chapter are from “A Faith To Free the People,” by Cedric Belfrage, published by Dryden Press. (This book appeared in London under the title: “Let My People Go.”—1939.) Price: $2.75 (or $1.25 if purchased from Institute headquarters). “It was Fosdick’s book that, long before the great crisis threw society’s structural decay into relief, had had perhaps the most pro- found effect in revealing to him (Williams) THIE FALLACY OF THE FUNDAMENTALISTS.” (p. 151). “ ‘It’s a Wonderful Union.’ they sang now in a great chorus of hope and mass strength, ‘and It’s Good Enough for Me.’ The old chant, ‘When the Saints Go Marching In,’ to the strains of which millions of children of the South had marched to revival altars for emotional conversion, had become: ‘When the Unions Win Their Fight.* ‘The change was only superficial, for the organized people saw their Kingdom at hand on earth, and no mere symbolism of words could have put it back in the sky, where the landlords and rich folks wanted it.’ ” (p. 182). The author ridicules heaven; referring to southern plant- ers under the slave system, who treated their colored folks with sentiment and kindness, he says : “But soon they had passed on to their lilywhite heaven, to fan themselves and sip juleps through eternity.” (p. 54). — 14— “Religion was not doing for the planters of the South what the textbooks said it ought to do: it is not STUPEFYING THE PEOPLE, but stirring them up.” (p. 196). Remember what Lenin said : “Religion is the OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE,” it stnpifies the masses. Clande in visiting his home in Tennessee is asked by his brother Jack : “Do you still believe there ain’t no hell?” “Still believe it.” Clande said. (p. 213.) “Chall told a good story about a preacher-stranger who had come by the farm not long before, had looked over the place and said: “ ‘Brother, that’s a fine farm you have.’ “ ‘Yes, preacher,’ Chall had said. “ ‘Well, you must thank the Almighty for that.’ “And Chall had said: ‘Preacher, you just ought to have seen this piece of ground when the Almighty had it all to himself.’ ” (p. 211). Claude Williams speaking: “Truth—nature—God: when you define them as far as the hu- man mind can go you have the same thing. But when I go to do God a favor WHATEVER HE IS, I’ve got to go to man. There’s no other way. So I have no use for supernatural belief.” (p. 218). A fundamentalist preacher friend asks him: “Have you lost faith in the Creator of all things as absolute spirit and father?” Williams answers : “I guess I have—I’ve ceased to believe in anything absolute in life: absolute God. absolute morality, absolute panaceas for the world’s evils The world changes. God changes ... Yes, God must grow as well as man. The Bible itself is a dialectical development. If we post- ulated the fatherhood of God, the leadership of Jesus and the pro- gress of man onward and upward forever, then God must grow or we’ll overtake Him.” (p. 218). Expressions are used such as “Old God,” “New God,” “The revolutionary God,” “Pool-table God,” “Brush the cob- webs off God,” “Reservation in heaven,” “Cumberland Pres- byterian heaven,” and a regular church is a “Worshipping plant . ’ 7 Jubilating in the fact that so many preachers were begin- ning to preach modernism, Williams’ biographer notes: “From Maryland it was reported that, in the middle of the Easter service, the pastor of the little Methodist Episcopal Church at Lands- downe had hurled his Bible across the floor from his pulpit, crying: ‘If the study of this book is going to hide the real Jesus from me, there goes my Bible. The Bible is not the word of God. It is man’s interpretation of the word of God, and anything reduced to words is imperfect, for language itself is imperfect.’ . . . Such reports kept alive Claude’s hope.” (p. 122-123.) Claude Williams speaking: CO w\_ Sv J Py v ; Vi 8 1 i •3* ! I 1 , J 3 I r l 1 I 1 'i CsL o <1. «-/ fv ^ ^ O * ** 5 atu 4jjtiv i : tB .§ h 1 1 3ill -p>| |3|.f| L <8 l=l|3 Iff I 3 s $ ^ 11 4. 2 -Is ^ J <* ~ '16 'as it.| O ! £ s 3 a 2 §> Sm SS ££ s-a o s >a 3 CO o il 5 ^ D *** 3-S = 63 >0 »63 5 0, — 16— This is a lesson sheet used in the Peoples Institute of Applied Religion. It shows quite clearly how they believe communism is true religion and that a Proletarian rule is the Kingdom of God. Stalin couldn’t make a better lesson sheet than this one of Claude Williams. “But now I have to tell you that I have taken my stand with Jesus of Nazareth. And I do not even know, nor can any of us know, whether He ever actually existed. I do not care whether He is fact or myth.” (p. 127.) One day an illustrated magazine on nudism was taken from Williams’ young people’s recreation room in the church, and in his next sermon he asked that the thief return the magazine. This was in Paris, Arkansas. The biographer records: “The elder who took the nudist magazine for inspection said: ‘Mr. Williams says there is no such thing as personal salvation. He doesn’t believe in the Virgin birth, nor that the whale swallowed Jonah. Once a miner came into the church drunk. They found a whis- key bottle right in the church. The preacher himself drinks beer. Someone saw a nudist magazine among his reading materials. Young people discuss everything in that Philosophers’ Club (which Williams conducts), even sex.’ ” (p. 132-133.) On page 73 ff. is a disgusting sermon by Williams pro- moting atheistic evolution and decrying the literal truth of the Creation story in Genesis. The above quotations are not by any means all that could be quoted to show the Williams position on the truly inspired Word of God. Williams and Morality Any decent Christian person would not care to have a biographer record the things in this book on Williams which Mr. Belfrage wrote. Some of the most revolting subjects are dis- cussed and described. We have already noted above the type of literature Mr. Williams prescribes for his young people. Be- sides magazines on nudism and books on sex, communism, etc., he had the usual radical magazines, “The Nation,” “The New Republic,” “Thinker,” “Forum,” “World Tomorrow,” etc., lying on the table in the social room for his young folks, (p. 110). Belfrage writes : “Once the son of a leading citizen of Paris, who had opposed Claude in many things, came with such a problem. He brought with him a girl whom he had made pregnant. They were fine young people and loved each other. Claude saw the shadow of social taboo hanging over three lives. He knew the economic origin of such taboos and of the law that upheld them, and it had nothing to do with Chris- tianity as he understood it. “The Christian way for him was clear, SINCE CHRISTIANITY MEANT PUTTING HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST. (Note: God’s laws, and Christ FIRST are shoved out the window when either interferes with the human race!) He married the pair and set the date on the certificate back so that they could have their baby without fear. “He told them that when the commandment about adultery was — 17— given, it was impossible for a man and woman to have relations with- out involving society, because it was before the time of scientific birth-control. But now that it was possible to avoid involving society, THE ACT WAS NEITHER MORAL NOR IMMORAL, BUT UN- MORAL,” (p. 119.) This simply means, according to Willianis’ religion, go ahead and have extra-marital relations all yon wish, hut be sure to use preventatives ! In the early part of his ministry, Belfrage records of Wil- liams and his wife, Joyce. “But they did some powerful praying and it generally seemed to work. One time they were scared that Joyce was going to have a baby. They prayed without stopping until nearly midnight that she would not have one. Later that same night God sent the answer.” (p. 26.) After the Williamses moved from the Paris parsonage, an- other woman was to move in. It is gleefully recorded that a young banker friend in Paris wrote Williams and said: “I met the woman who is going to live at the manse and asked her when she planned to move in. She said as soon as she could get the nude pictures off the walls.” (p. 114.) ALL U.S.A. PRESBYTERIANS READING THIS ARTI- CLE OUGHT TO BEGIN AN INVESTIGATION AND FIND OUT WHY THEIR MISSION MONEY IS BEING USED TO FINANCE MEN WHO CORRUPT GOD’S WORD LIKE CLAUDE WILLIAMS CONSISTENTLY DOES! Williams and Communism One of the best evidences of Claude’s support by commu- nism is his directorship of the communist Commonwealth Col- lege. A person couldn’t even be a student there without being an ardent follower of communism (not necessarily a member of the party) much less a director of the school. Remember this, dear Reader, there are many, many more communists outside of the limited membership of the communist party than there are in it. Remember also that it is nearly impossible to trace any person’s actual membership due to the fact that the membership lists are carefully guarded—even from different groups of com- munists—and due to the fact that members change their names one or more times while working in the party. Yet, these people may be well-known personalities if their real names and asso- ciations were only revealed. Bearing these known facts in mind, we must examine a per- son’s activity and statements to see whether they follow the communist line. When the communists smear good patriotic Americans they usually like to use quotations from a book writ- ten by a brother of theirs. For example, if they wish to smear — 18 — anyone of some 452 generally good Americans, they would quote something against this individual from a book like “Under Cover,” by John Roy Carlson, or ‘‘Sabotage,” by Kahn, or “Time Bomb” by E. A. Pller, or they would quote from a com- munist front organization like Dr. L. M. Birkhead’s Friends of Democracy, Inc. It is significant that none of these authors can find even one tiny little thing against one single little com- munist in America, and yet they are supposed to be exposing the “enemies” of our country. Any student of communist activities will use such books as almost infallible guides against the de- cent people in America who believe in and love our country first. I am not going to quote an enemy of Mr. Williams’ below, nor have I done so above. I am quoting from his friend, Cedric Belfrage, who wrote his biography, which I personally pur- chased from Williams’ own office in Detroit. Look at these di- rect quotations: “Claude found the Marxian theory interesting.” (p. 91—early in his career.) Leon Webb was a leader at Commonwealth College. “ ‘Preachers,’ said Webb, ‘God or no God, you are getting Mos- cow gold too—only you don’t know it yet. You soon will.’ The talk ended late with Claude and the Commonwealth group agreeing on ways in which they could work together. FOR THERE WAS NO CONFLICT BETWEEN THE OBJECTIVES FOR WHICH BOTH WERE STRIVING.” (p. 93.) “The miners were tickled by the sermon Claude preached a few Sundays later. He quoted Paul: “Without the shedding of blood there is no remission.’ He said that Jesus’ blood was red. The interna- tional workers’ (communist) flag was red. All men, regardless of race, had red blood. It was one common color of mankind, sym- bolic of solidarity and brotherhood. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I AM RED.* ” (p. 104.) Williams thinks this report is marvelous news: “The once-respectable snowy-haired Bishop Brown of Little Rock, who had scandalized the devout by his one-man revolt against church- ly Pharisaism, was publishing as fast as he could write them, books and pamphlets ENDORSING COMMUNISM AS THE REAL CHRIS- TIAN LEADERSHIP of the period of capitalist decay.” (p. 122.) (Note; That, Reader, is something, when COMMUNISM is termed CHRISTIAN!) A charge made against Williams by the Board of Elders of his Paris Congregation was : “That he has constantly espoused the cause of Communism.” (p. 126.) (Note: This comes from a Bible-believing Christian who listened to Claude’s sermons and saw his actions as an eye-witness.) “The preacher was behind the broad New Deal program with everything he had, needing in any case only to observe who its enemies — 19— u were to know WHERE GOD STOOD IN THE MATTER.” (p. 130— this is written by an author who knows no personal Savior! It is like a blind man describing a sunset.) “The editor-elder objected to Claude on Presbyterian principles and also mentioned that the preacher had campaigned for the com- munistic Tugwell Bill.” (p. 133.) “The Communist Party of Arkansas, demanding a reversal of the verdict (to oust Claude from the Paris Church), although it could not claim the preacher as a member, remarked: ‘We see in this the distinct class character of the church which is merely a tool in the hands of the ruling class, the capitalists.’ ” (p. 134.) “He (Williams) even had among his supporters a young banker, who said that he did not care if the preacher was red.” (p. 135.) “Living events had taught him respect for the Marxian social philosophy . . . God was truth, and if there was truth in Marx and Lenin, then there was God in Marx and Lenin. “Reading for the first time the whole of Marx’s passage about religion, a light suddenly shone for him: the passage actually had a beauty and nobility almost worthy of the Bible itself. It was like reading Isaiah. “The opium of the people,’ Marx called religion. . . . The clash was not between Marxism and religion, but between Marx- ism and SUPERNATURAL, ceremonial religion.” (p. 133-139.) “He (Claude) received an official nomination from the Arkansas Socialist Party as its candidate for Governor” (p. 139.) “After reading Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution and Imperialism’ he found his views taking even firmer and clearer shape. HE WAS INSPIRED BY LENIN, by his parallel greatness as theoretical and active revolutionary, by his incisiveness and surefootedness, by his quick analysis of a situation and by his faith, which under the most terrible buffetings was a rock, LIKE THE FAITH OF JESUS.” (pl41) “After the Conference another priest had paid him (Claude) a surprise call and they had discussed social and religious questions for several hours. He sold this priest some socialist pamphlets, but the priest annoyed him with his stubborn arguments for a personal Crea- tor.” (p. 141-142.) (Note: The “Conference” referred to above was a radical so-called Church conference which Claude attended. Com- munists were also there and one of the Communists remarked after it was over that he felt like a “Conservative” with that crowd.) Belfrage, either jeeringly, or significantly attempting to langh off something, regularly refers to Williams as “the RED preacher/’ Several times he mentions that Claude had the pic- tures of Jesus, Debs, and Lenin hanging on his study wall. “Witnesses were brought who claimed they had actually seen the preacher’s Communist Party card, and who swore he had said Jesus was a bastard and had taught their children free-love and nudism. “The attorney said: ‘Just tell this jury of honest God-fearing men what is your position on Jonah?” “ ‘I accept that story as a parable cloaking significant truths.’ “ ‘Now tell the jury straight. Do you or do you not believe in the Virgin birth?’ “ ‘It doesn’t make any difference to me whether Jesus was born of a Virgin or not. He was more than an ordinary man. People who — 20— knew him recognized him as a superior type. He was a big man.* ” (p. 144.) Ward Rodgers was a Commonwealth communist. When some radical literature was found in an old trunk, they “Had found an old letter from Claude, signed: ‘Yours for the Rev- olution.’ ” (p. 160.) “A Communist in the twentieth century was like a Christian in the first three centuries, before Constantine legalized Christianity and muffled it in a jeweled rope. . . . The popular hatred of them (the Christians) was stirred up not on a basis of reason, but of super- stition. Their revolutionary doctrine of brotherhood and community of ownership (Note: This was certainly not the fundamental doctrine of the early Christian), like Communism many centuries later, was too horrible for respectable people to discuss.” (p. 180.) “A thousand RED preachers could not have dealt adequately with all the problems laid upon Claude’s shoulders.” (p. 184.) Look at how the pro-communist Henry Wallace and federal funds were used for the communist-controlled Southern Tenant Farmers Union which Williams helped to organize. Belfrage writes: “Plantation toilers saw the tide turning at last their way, and the third winter convention of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union was held in an atmosphere of jubilation. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace sent a telegram of greeting to the convention, urging it to forward its recommendations to him. Through the new Committee for Rural and Social Planning, FEDERAL MONEY was contributed to the convention, to board and feed the delegates for four days. WITH SUCH ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE HIGHEST SEATS OF GOVERNMENT, the delegates shed few tears over the stubborn refusal of certain labor czars to attend. The president of the UMWA District 21 had been announced to address the convention, but he de- clared: ‘I will have nothing to do with it until the communistic ele- ment from Commonwealth College (attending the convention and aid- ed by federal funds and Henry Wallace) is got rid of. and as long as the Reverend Claude Williams is recognized. I stand a hundred per cent behind my God and my country.* ” (p. 208-209.) Williams said to a fundamentalist preacher : “There’s a horse-sense in Marx. Lenin knew a few things too, and so did Jeremiah and Jesus. They were all big men.” (p. 215- 216.) How Claude Works Mr. Williams and the People’s Institute of Applied Religion openly say they are communistic in philosophy and in support. A visit to their office indicated that the Institute advocates the same people for election in Detroit that the Communist Party and the DAILY WORKER advocate. A visit to their office and a casual reading of their literature, indicate that they hate the same people the Communistic Party and the DAILY WORKER hate. Mr. Williams and his outfit help communism by attempt- — 21— ing to discredit all those who oppose communism whether they range from the strictly political, like certain senators and states- men, to the strictly orthodox Bible preacher like some of those mentioned earlier in this chapter. The clerics who support this kind of pro-communist endeavor are either modernists in such organizations as the Federal Council of Churches which is no- torious for its catering to reds, or they are plain ordinary funda- mentalists who have not taken the time to see what the Williams plan is doing. How any decent person, especially how any preacher who loves Christ and the Bible completely and above all else, can allow a man of such dubious background and with such immoral anti-Christian teachings, go unchallenged, is be- yond conception. That the U. S. A. Presbyterian Mission Board supports him and his pro-communist Institute either indicates a willingness on the part of the Mission Board officials to aid communism outright, or it shows they know little of the Bible or of Williams doctrines. You see, Williams has constantly warned them that he would be called a communist. This has unarmed those who have the authority to stop Presbyterian Church sup- port of his activities. Claude Williams is an associate editor of the notorious red magazine THE PROTESTANT. This magazine is attempting to split the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches in their combined fight against their common enemy, atheistic communism. The words: THE PROTESTANT, were painted on the doorway of the People’s Institute Headquarters in Detroit. The magazine does not represent any protestant group. Many notorious communists like the red Dean of Canterbury and Adam Clayton Powell, Harlem preacher and representative in Congress who is divorced from his first wife and now married to boogie- woogie pianist Hazel Scott, are also on the associate-editor list. Williams spent the Spring and Summer of 1946 on a west- ern tour. He left no doubt in the minds of his hearers that he is definitely a communist using the church for his evil pur- poses. At Denver he was quoted as preaching and declaring : ‘ ‘ De- nominationally I am a Presbyterian, religiously a Unitarian and politically I ’m a Communist. I ’m not preaching to make people good or anything of the sort. I ’m in the church because I can reach people easier that way and get them organized for Com- munism. ’ ’ In California the communist newspapers announced his meetings. He is quoted by the press there as saying : 1 1 The clos- — 22— ONE GOD • ONE PEOPLE • ONE GOAL THEISTIC COLLECTIVISM • Lynd Ward By CLAUDE WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR Peoples’ Institute of Applied Religion, Inc. Post Office Box 3587 H. P., Detroit 3, Michigan 25 cents per copy (Copyright 1944 by Claude Williams) 181 McLean Ave., Detroit 3, Michigan Front page of a booklet of Claude Williams which speaks for itself. Note Jesus is taken out of his deity and made a carpenter, and a working class leader. est aproach to true religion in the world today is pure Com- munism—materialistic aspects of the ideology notwithstanding. ’ ’ Williams works with Leon Birkhead, the ex-Unitarian preacher, who said that youth needs the shock of the sex novel ; that the Bible is unfit for young people ; and who opened his for- mer church in Kansas City for communist meetings. Williams secures some of the material he uses to smear decent Americans and fundamentalist Christians from Birkhead ’s notoriously red “Friends of Democracy.’ ’ The detailed machinery of the Institute cannot be given here for lack of space, but it is mentioned in newspapers, etc. as either the People’s Institute of Applied Religion, Inc., or as the People’s Congress. When you see these names, or the names of Claude Williams and Birkhead, look out ! — 24— CHAPTER II. Methodist Federation for Social Action RED CHURCHMEN MEET Kansas City was the host the last week of December in 1947 to the Annual Conference of the Methodist Federation for Social Action, an unofficial but politically powerful adjunct of the Methodist Church. This group is a Communist front or- ganization and has made great inroads into the Methodist Church. Although representing only a small minority of the na- tions’ 11 million Methodists, it is the only organized social ac- tion body in the Church. It speaks in the name of 17 Methodist Bishops, and 4,000 preachers and laymen; and is highly ar- ticulate. If John Wesley had come back from the grave, to attend this Conference he would have been astonished, horrified and be- wildered, to find the pulpits of the Methodist Church, which he and his brother Charles founded, filled with men who deny the deity and virgin-birth of Christ and sing praise to Bloody Joe Stalin and his anti-Christian cut-throats. On entering the meeting hall he would have not found the book table filled with Bibles or sermons from Gospel preachers, but with copies of Red trash which varied in price from five cents to three dollars, which included such Communist propa- ganda as “Behind the Soviet Power”; “Soviet Russia Since the War”; “Constitution of the U.S.S.R.”; “Russia and Amer- ica, Pacific Neighbors”; “Soviet Democracy”; and “Soviet American Relations”. Taking a seat inside of the Church, he would have had to listen hour upon hour to tirades against our Government and the lauding of Soviet Communism. He would have seen a plat- form, filled with Red traitors of his Church, who have sneaked into the Church which ; he founded to spread the Gospel of Sal- vation. These “Red traitors”, disguised as ministers, are using the pulpits (which were built by his Bible-believing, Christ exalting followers,) as a sounding-board for a new gospel; a gospel of hate and evil called the “Social Gospel”. Through this new — 25— gospel they hope to lead the Church down the road to revolution and a Red Communist State. John Wesley would have had to listen to a Red discourse by Dr. Harry F. Ward, on minority rights, and American Soviet relations. Dr. Ward was one of the founders of the Red Gar- land Fund in 1922 ; served on its board of directors ; and was its vice-president from 1922 to 1924. This Garland fund was es- tablished by Charles Garland of Massachusetts, who served a term in the penitentiary for running a ‘free-love’ farm. The fund is used for the promotion of Red Revolutionary movements in America. In 1932, just before leaving for a year’s study in the Soviet Union, Dr. Ward admitted in a bulletin, put out by the Method- ist Federation for Social Service, his outright cooperation with Red revolutionists. On his return from the Soviet Union he toured the country for the “Friends of the Soviet Union”; and spoke on the lecture platform with many known Communists. In the ’30 ’s, he became the National Chairman of the “American League against War and Fascism, (later known as the “Amer- ican League for Peace and Democracy”). Ward has been at one time or another a member of a dozen or more “United-front” Red groups. He contributed articles to the Daily Workers, official publication for the American Com- munist Party. He also writes for the Red periodicals: “The Protestant ’ ’, and 4 ‘ Soviet Russia Today ’ ’. He wrote several Red books, the most infamous being, “The Soviet Spirit”, which was widely circulated by the Communist Party, and hailed by its leaders as a great contribution to the revolutionary move- ment. On October 17, 1943, he addressed the first meeting of the Red Youth group, known as “American Youth for Democracy”, in Mecca Temple, New York City. In this address he declared: ‘ ‘A large number of active religious youth can be drawn into this new Red Youth League because most religious youth are anti-fascist in principle and the time has come for unity between Communist and non-Communist, as a - matter of ‘Historical Necessity’.” John Wesley would have had to listen to Rev.? Jack Mc- Michael, its executive-secretary, and former chairman of the Red Youth front, “American Youth Congress.” I knew Jack when I was in the Communist Party. He was considered a val- uable member because of his religious connections. He ha® — 26— backed of late five xfront organizations listed by the Attorney General as Communist and subversive. Brother Wesley would have had to listen to the guest of honor, Feng Yu Hsiang, a former Chinese warlord who has been calling for the overthrow of Chiang Kai-shek and a coali- tion with the Chinese Communists. The Federation’s April, 1946, Social Problems Bulletin, featured as an authoritative com- mentary—a blistering attack on American policy in China. The author, Chu Tang, was described as ‘Editor of the China Daily News, New York City’. The Bulletin did not mention that Chu Tang has been an apologist for the Chinese Communists; and that the China Daily News is the Chinese version of the Daily Worker. Another speaker he would have heard was Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the “Churchman”. This man headed the Protestant delegation to Yugoslavia and placed his hand of ap- proval upon the bloody regime of Marshall Tito which is liqui- dating the Christians by the hundreds. Shipler has his name on the Sponsor List of a group of Bed fronts. Then, last but not least, our Brother Wesley would have heard Dr. Jerome Davis tell the Conference that we should give Bed Bussia ten billion dollars. Dr. Davis has long been an ad- mirer of the Soviet system. In the June, 1947 Bulletin, Dr. Dav- is summed up his views thus : ‘ ‘ Is it not probable that the great- est event of the 20th Century thus far is the Soviet Bevolution and all that it has meant to human welfare ?” In the article, Dr. Davis sought to justify Bussia ’s denial of individual liberties; one-party monopoly ; bureaucracy ; concentration camps ; and fir- ing-squads. He defended firing-squads and concentration camps in this manner: “Bussia believes it is wiser to destroy the en- emies of the people from within rather than wait until they fo- ment war from without. ’ ’ He would have heard resolutions asking for the President to revoke an executive order requiring the oath of loyalty, as a qualification for holding federal office. Also a resolution call- ing for a federal F.E.P.C. He would have heard that America is an Imperialistic war- like Nation, and that Bed Bussia is living the Christian way— not us. He would hear Bed butchers lauded as modern-day saints. Then he would see the new Chairman, Bobert Brooks, a negro, take over for the coming year. Surprisingly, he would not hear the old gospel hymns, writ- — 27— ten by his brother Charles Wesley. He would not hear an altar- call or see an old fashioned mourner’s bench. Yes, if John Wesley had come back from the grave to at- tend this conference he would have gone away thinking he had looked upon a CONVENTION IN HELL. — 28 — mm i*- iU - &§|S3 $|y &H- Ism ss nrilJ$ LSsfsiJS illififs” gplp 3%3jfgi#r iMum^ii *^ts a — c •£ ro » C.S j-. 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It is reported that on May ), 1944, the O.W.L began shortwaving a series of broadcasts by Maier to Germany. During 1940, and 1941, when war appeared imminent, Maier was an oppo- nent of preparedness and an advocate of non-participation in "foreign” wars. “Yo* need not be gifted with second sight to realize that if the United States, the last great bulwark of peace and de- mocracy, becomes a belligeranc, finally none bur the atheistic Communists can win . . .”, be said. About Charles Lind- bergh, who at that time disseminated the Hitler-line of propaganda and became the hero of the pro-Fascists, Maier had these kind words to say, "Fourteen years ago a young aviator who conquered the Atlantic in a small airplane became a. national hero. . . . Yet because he pleaded chat our nation be kept out of Europe’s war, be ia branded as a Fifth fiolumnist...” During this period, Maier was also an ardent admirer of the "the purifying influence of Vichy France.” Apparently these past years have not changed Maier’s . mind. In Match 1941, he said of the trial of Marshal Petain, “How easily the mind of the masses is changed; how abruptly M people’s mood can turn against a A devout-looking cover hides the rubtie inti- propiginda contrined in Vslter Maicr’s Vtllhrr Ltegae Mttirmgtr. Inside, the nugizipc repeats the pro-Fsscist canard that Coeunonista tie cai- rn Un-American Activities (tee opposite page.) national benefactor!” Pearl Harbor had little effect on Maier’s defeatism. He asserted that the war was a punishment by God on a sin- ful world and held nojiope for improve- ment in the post-war period unless his own extremely orthodox and Funda- mentalist ideas were accepted. Maier im- plied that anyone opposed to his views was either an atheist, a Communist, or both. Stalin’s agents, he said, have pene- traced youth groups, labor unions, and Negro organizations, while "outright Communists” and "many radicals in the higher salaried brackets” were determin- ing government policy. Maier continued to oppose our Allies vigorously. "What assurance have we that tomorrow we will not be fighting against these with whom we are linked as Allies today?” he asked. His tirades against Russia were particularly yehe- ment: "Of what good will alliances with atheistic Communists 6e? According to the press, high officials in our country are disturbed over the spectre of the vic- torious Soviet armies controlling conti- nental Europe. . . .” Shortly before V-E day, Maier still was saying that the Ger- mans, "despite Hitlerism, have formed a human defense of the Christian faith and a bulwark, against Communism. . . .” Meanwhile, Maier opposed rationing, inferring that it was a blessing of God that America’s millions had not starved "despite rationing and restriction.” Vehe- mently he denounced the best-seller Under Cover, saying that few books "have been as dangerous and destructive . . .” and that a number of those exposes by the book merely were amongst tho» who "before Pearl Harbor tried to kec| this country out of war. . , The notorious pro-Fascist and videos • anti-Semite, Gerald L. K. Smith boasts ol his friendship with Maier. Althougl Maier readily denies any association with Smith, it is known that when Smich, leader of the America First Party and the American Nationalist movement, speaks in. St. Louis he visits and confers with Maier. Smith also knows Lawrence Reilly, a clerk in Maier’s office and fomier editor of a mimeographed maga- zine, the £lrvenlb Hour. This publica- tion carried Smith’s Nationalist New* Service and it at least once carried a re- print from Maier’s magazine, the Welther League Messenger. Reilly late last month announced that the publica- tion was suspended, and Maier, who for months had allowed the magazine to be published under his nose, felt called upon to "deplore” the "unfounded” news dis- patches printed by Reilly. Reilly and Maier’s action followed an expose in the Sc. Louis Star Times and a furor on the campus of Concordia Seminary, where Maier is a professor and Reilly was a stu- dent. Seminary officials roundly de- nounced the Eleventh Hour and Gerald JL K. Smith. But, Maier hasn't repudiated pro- Fascisc and anti-Semitic publications, such as America in Danger, X-Ray, Gentile News, Western Voice, King’s Gazette, and Gerald Winrod’s Defender ^ which have made frequent use of his statements. Openly however, Maier lav- ishes his praise only on the supposedly more "respectable” anti-propaganda pub- lication, The Chicago Tribune and ita editor and publisher. Colonel Roberc R. McCormick. When McCormick declared that "Communist control of our politi- cal parties is imminent,” Maier com- mented. on the Colonel’s "remarkable address.” It is teported too that Maier is cooperating with Smith in-an effort to unite ail "Nationalists” in the country to wreck the "Roosevelt peace.” As a minister who purports to spread only the gospel of Christ and Christian- ity, but in practice frequently uses re- ligion as a guise for the dissemination of anti-propaganda, Walter A. Maier war- rants close watching. His sermons are heard by millions of people every week. Because of his indirection, Maier makes it very difficult for the layman to dis- tinguish between bis propaganda and his religious teaching. Apparently Maier ‘does not believe in the Hitler technique of shouting his. propaganda openly. Rather Maier preaches his arfti-propa- 'ganda and his defeatism more subtly and by implications. This is a photostatic copy of the smear article on Dr. Maier, that appeared in ‘Propaganda Battlefront’; edited by L. M. Birkhead. Note, the shrewd method used by this Character Assassin, to destroy a Gospel Preacher. — 57— CHAPTER X The Four Quacks HE QUACKS LIKE A DUCK Emil Mazey, a Detroit Labor Leader, recently rose at a labor meeting to object to a proposed resolution, as Commu- nist inspired. The man, who introduced the resolution, chal- lenged Mazey to prove that he was a Communist. Mazey re- torted: “I can’t }?rove you are a Communist, but when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet, and associates with ducks—I’m certainly go- ing to assume that he is a duck.” DR. FOSDICK Harry Emerson Fosdick is one of the grandpappys of Modernism, and the Social Gospel in America. His writings on religion, are very liberal and highly recommended by So- cialist and Communist. It was through one of his books that Claude Williams, became a convert to radicalism. Fosdick has held a chair in Union Theological Seminary, since 1915 as a Professor of Practical Theology. He has served as head of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, and as pastor of the Rockefeller Riverside Drive Church. On page 34’ of this book, we have printed a letter, which Fosdick wrote to W. B. Barnhart, in which he states his dis- belief in the Virgin Birth, when he says, “Of course, I do not believe in the Virgin Birth”; this shows Fosdick ’s true posi- tion. For here we see the so-called No. 1 Protestant Radio Preacher, disclaim Christ as the Son of God, and making Him, only a historical personage. He also states in the letter, that he does not believe that Christ died for our sins and says: “I do not know any intelligent Christian Minister who does.” This is Dr. Fosdick whom the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, has used as its No. 1 Radio Preacher in the United States. Year after year, his voice has gone out over the radio on free radio time which has been given to the Fed- eral Council, because it represented so many Christians; in or- der that Dr. Fosdick might preach another Christ, a revolu- tionary Christ whom Fosdick could place alongside of Karl Marx and Lenin on the pages of history. DR. NIEBUHR Reinhold Niebuhr is another one of the Union Theological crowd. In company with Harry Ward, he has adorned the — 58— platform of many Communist rallies. He was a speaker along with Earl Browder, then General Secretary of the Commu- nist Party; and Henri Barbusse, a French Communist, and guest of honor at an anti-War Rally in New York City, Sept. 29, 1933. The Philadelphia Record of October 14, 1933 reported : “Reinhold Niebuhr, Union Theological Seminary Professor, last night advocated the use of force; to bring about a New Social Order. His open leaning toward revolution was ex- pressed at the opening of a three day Joint Regional Confer- ence, of the ‘Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and The Fellowship of Reconciliation at Swarth- more College.” Niebuhr in his book ‘Moral Man and Immoral Society,’ states that “The religio-political dreams of the Marxians, have in immediate significance, which the religio-ethical dreams of the Christians, lack.” Karl Marx, the idol of Reinhold Niebuhr, denies the exist- ence of God or Supreme Spirit in any form. He teaches: the desirability and inescapable necessity of class hatred; class revolution; envy and coveteousness ; the abolition of the fam- ily unit and of marriage; the communizing of women; state ownership of children; that matter and force constitute all of creation; that only materialistic circumstances guides destiny, character, and history; that man’s spirit is as material as a chemical effervescence or an electric spark which flickers out or rots with the body; that “Religion is the opium of the people”; that with the vanishing of property rights, religion and morality will vanish, along with other “bourgeois senti- mentalities”; that a government proletarian dictatorship must be set up by violence ; and that any theory that the two classes can get together is only a dodge on the part of the bourgeoise, who wish to avoid having their throats cut in a bloody prole- tarian revolution. DR. ELIOT WHITE On Aug. 29, 1943, Dr. Eliot White, formerly associated with New York’s historical Grace Church, and now on the re- tired list of New York’s Episcopal Diocese; and his wife Mabel R. White, joined the Communist Party. On joining, he stated that the Communist Party, was the only Party living up to the Holy Bible. Since his induction into the Party, he has taken a posi- tion on the ‘Worker’ editorial staff, and is editing a column, — 59— called 'Toward a New Day/ On Feb. 4, 1945, he wrote an ar- ticle called 'Some Definitions,’ in which he answers a qnery of a teen-aged boy, on Religion, Marxism, and Atheism. In this article, he attempts to prove that God is good. Therefore anyone, who is an atheist or Marxist and is good, is God-like. He says that one of the greatest pronouncements of true re- ligion ever made, is the 'conclusion of The Communist Mani- festo,’ by Karl Marx, and Frederick Engels, issued in 1848, which says: "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, they have a world to win; working men of all coun- tries, unite. ’ ’ Such blasphemy, coming from the pen of Dr. White, who hides behind a Clerical robe and stiff collar, to spread this deadly poison of Marxism among the youth of our Nation. DR. BRADLEY During the past years a Chicago preacher, Preston Brad- ley of the 'Peoples Church,’ has been pooling his wisdom, with the cash of the Market Place ; to the gratification of his vanity, and the satisfaction of the profit motive of certain fur traders. Bradley has been a Presbyterian, and an Independent; and is now a Unitarian. Dr. Bradley’s mellow booming voice is for sale, for radio or lecture on any subject from ‘religion to food or to the glories of' Evan’s Fur Coats.’ Every Sunday, he broadcasts his morning service over the radio. His prayers are accompanied with the dramatic tolling of bells, to give a religious effect; which smooths over the fact that he doesn’t address God but instead uses phrases such as: "Oh beauteous truth, Ah beau-teah of the Universe.” In many of his sermons, he renders praise to such men as Buddha and Confucius. Plis divided allegiance can be seen in hymns of this type, which appear in the hymnal sheet of Bradley’s Church. "We love to think of Jesus He loved both young and old, The noble-minded martyr Whom all in reverence hold. "We love to think of Buddha So sweetly kind and true, Whose love for man was tender And ne ’er a limit knew. i ' — 60— ‘‘Of thee, 0 wise Confucius We often think with awe; Thy watchword, love of others Thy guide : the moral law.” While Bradley probably would hold any opinion, it paid or sounded best to hold ; he is no newcomer in the Red-sympa- thizing ranks. When the “ Comipunist, American, Russian In- stitute for Cultural Relations with Russia,’ Chicago Branch, gave a banquet on Feb. 20, 1934, in honor of the Soviet Am- bassador, Troyanovsky. The announcement of this banquet listed Bradley as one of the Sponsoring Committee, along with other prominent Communists and Communist sympathizers in the Chicago area. On May 15, 1937, Bradley presided at a Farewell Dinner, given by the Communist Medical Bureau, to aid Spanish De- mocracy in honor of the unfrocked Red Priest, O’Flanagan, and three Medical Units, which were leaving for Spain to aid the Communist Revolutionists, who were seeking to establish a Communist rule in that Country. Bradley was one of the Sponsors of a meeting of the Com- munist, ‘American League Against War and Fascism,’ at which Harry Ward was the main speaker. Bradley’s name ap- pears repeatedly as a Sponsor of many Communist United Front Committees, such as: The Scottsboro Defense Commit- tee; The American Civil Liberties Union; Committee to aid victims of German Fascism, (mainly Thaelman) ; and the Chi- cago section of the New Theatre League. -61— . ' .