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From all over che stadium came the ecrsich. 1000 pinpoien night. Everyeas ing of matches, until nearly 100 of light lit up the geped with surprise. In almost lem time than it takes to wll i, the acriking experiment was over, and the gisst searchlighes were once more playing tricks with their multicolored shafts of brilliance, Quickly lasting impression of the power of even ome * i; +i '] Coming out of the Coliseum and wesviag our way through che huge throng towards the wajting streetcars, we found ourself musing over what bad just happened. How company tively easy it would be, we thought, w being peace to a heartsick world if only enough f the wonderful people in it would make s ous- stant effort to spread che light of truth, aad somber the darkness of error. ticsle freedem witheat trwth People over the earth are beginning to com- more and more thar there is a very Leelee ote meme nntine Lerten eet eed fa Sobered by the scourge of war, eves today to admit the inescapable conclu- sion of what Christ meant when He said: “The truth shall make you free“ (Joho 8:32). They had seen bow inevitably truth can catch ep with those who fear and despise the free- dom that Christian civilization makes posible Once a sufficient number of people realize Ef « solitary individual, surrounded on all sides by a depreming darkness, can have the 4 ting excarance that his tiny pinpoint of Pach is eaee powecfal chan all the darknese of wor, x needs no srretch of the imaginstion we viruslize the good that would result if gullicns could be found to multiply chat tiny pinpoint of truth millioas of times. Each trach-bearer would have the consilation of kaowing thet he or she can be « bearer of that ere “Light which enlighteneth every man that cometh into chis world” (John 1:9)--# pertner with Him Who ssid “I am the wsy, gad ube troth, and the life” (John 14:6). Each can be « bearer of Christ—e Christopher.* WHAT ABOUT TRE RUNDRED MILLION? Someone hat spproximated that out of 140,- @00,000 persons in the United Scares not more than 40,000,000 Catholics and noa-Catholics practice any formal religion. If this is true, it leaves a vast multitude of 100,000,000 indi- viduals in our country whe are living off the “os 2 oft, * becoming lems and less conscious of the great Christiga fundamentals that have made our mation possible. If this trend goes far enough, it is inevitable that a new pagenism will rise im our midst to destroy the freedom that Chris- tiaaity and Christianity alone makes possible. Some osy that this pew paganism is already here. Maybe it is. Bat we fee! char it is not wo late to do something about ir. Some time ago Fortune magazine reminded wa of our debt to Christianity when it editori- alized as follows: “Democracy is too easily s0- eumed w be 2 pattern of government based