Mohammed and Marx A New York message in the News - Chronicle
conveys the rather startling information that a commission of laymen which has been visiting the Far East mission- field has urged that " Christian missionaries should temporarily abandon their efforts to win converts from Mohammed and Buddha and join forces with the great Eastern religions in making a common fight against the atheism of Marx, Lenin and Bertrand Russell." Textual quotations from the actual report do not quite bear out this arresting statement, but the commissioners—an influential body, presided over by Dr. W. E. Hocking, of Harvard, do go as far as to suggest that questions as to the respective merits of this or that sacred text are altogether secondary when the sacredness of all texts is being denied ; that Christianity finds itself aligned, in a world-wide issue, with the non-Christian faiths of Asia ; that the foes of all faiths alike are " the philosophies of Marx, Len in and Russell." The full text of the com- mission's report has not yet reached this country, but it is not surprising that it should be making some stir in America—where the elevation of Mr. Bertrand Russell to the pedestal on which Marx and Lenin stand perhaps provokes less surprise than it will here.
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