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To the Purchaser:
Lying Supernaturalism is going; robbing Capitalism isfalling; saving Laborism is rising, and leveling Unionismis coming.
This booklet, Communism and Christianism, is a contributionby Bishop and Mrs. Wm. M. Brown, of Galion,Ohio, towards the furtherance of these downward, upwardand forward movements, the most fortunate eventsin the whole history of mankind. We hope that you willread, mark, learn and inwardly digest its extremelyrevolutionary, comprehensive and salutary teachings concerningboth religion and politics with the happy resultof becoming an apostle of its illuminating and inspiringinterpretation of the scientific gospel of Marx and Engelsto wage slaves, the only gospel which points the way toredemption from their body and soul destroying slavery.
You may become a missionary of this gospel in yourneighborhood, and as such do more good than all itsorthodox preachers, teachers, editors and politicians togetherat no financial cost to yourself by ordering bookletsat our special rates: six copies, $1.00; twenty-fivecopies, $3.00, prepaid, and selling them to workers atour retail price, 25 cents for one copy. As we makeno profit and do no bookkeeping, cash should accompanyall orders.
To organizations working for bail, defense, liberationor unemployment funds, Bishop and Mrs. Browndonate twenty-five copies for each twenty-five orderedwith remittance.
The Bradford-Brown Educational Company, Inc.Publishers—Galion, Ohio
Editions and Their Dates.
First Edition, 10,000 copies, October 11th, 1920.
Second Edition, 10,000 copies, revised and enlargedfrom 184 to 204 pages, February 15th, 1921.
Third Edition, 10,000 copies, March 2nd, 1921.
Fourth Edition, 10,000 copies (2,000 in cloth binding),revised and enlarged from 204 to 224 pages, April9, 1921.
Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, D. D.Fifth Bishop of Arkansas, Resigned; MemberHouse of Bishops Protestant Episcopal Church;Sometime Archdeacon of Ohio and SpecialLecturer at Bexley Hall, the Theological Seminaryof Kenyon College. Now Episcopos inpartibus Bolshevikium et Infidelium.
COMMUNISM AND CHRISTIANISM
ANALYZED AND CONTRASTEDFROM THEMARXIAN AND DARWINIANPOINTS OF VIEW
by
William Montgomery Brown
Banish the Gods from the Skies
and Capitalists from the
Earth and make the world safe
for Industrial Communism.
TheBradford-Brown Educational Company, Inc.Publishers ... Galion, Ohio
Fortieth Thousand
DEDICATION
This booklet is gratefully dedicated tothe Proletariat from whom Bishop andMrs. Brown are sprung, and to whose unrequitedlabors (not to the good providenceof a divinity) they owe their wealth,leisure and opportunities.
PROLEGOMENA[A]
Religion is the opium of the people. Thesuppression of religion as the happiness of thepeople is the revindication of its real hap