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placed within each individual to bear witness to Him and His law, and these two

forces are at variance with one another. Sin is everywhere, in every person, class, race
and nation and the spiritual warfare follows none of these divisions but cuts across
then all.

Classes in human society are the results of sin, NOT sin the result of class
distinctions as in the Marxian lie. Man was designed by the Creator to maintain a
society without sin and thus “free and equal,” as in the words of Abraham Lincoln.
But sin, climatic conditions, over-population and other causes have sapped human

energy and initiative in varying degrees and produced economic classes.

Jesus Christ recognized classes in human society, and His human extraction was
from among the so-called “proletariat,” but He knew that there would be economic

differences among people as long as sin with its many effects remains a ruling factor
in human society. He never made any attempt to destroy classes in the existent
world-order because He knows that not until righteousness reigns in the Golden Age
which He will establish at His second advent will human inequalities be levelled. So

far then from inciting class-warfare, hatred and violence, He advocated love, kindness
and consideration on the part of the “haves” for the “have-nots” and loyalty,
faithfulness and respect on the part of the employee toward the employer. It is easy to
demonstrate that in those nations where the principles of Jesus Christ have been

influential in the national society, and almost in exact ratio, have the conditions of the
poor and the workingman been improved, and have there been prosperity, strength
and vigor in the nation.

This concludes our brief review of the Christian philosophy of history and its ethic.
It has more force and power than any other movement known to man as its great
text-book, the Holy Bible has been translated into over 1600 languages and dialects. It
may be refused and rejected but it can NEVER be refuted of falsified.

The Philosophy of Karl Marx and His Successors
The Man Karl Marx

We have given a brief review of the premises from which it begins and of the
content of the Christian philosophy of things, and have asserted that it is at every
point in deadly conflict with the teaching of Marxianism which has resolved itself into
present-day Communism with its focus of infection of the whole world in Moscow.

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