orders.

To organizations working for bail, defense, liberation or unemployment
funds, Bishop and Mrs. Brown donate twenty-five copies for each
twenty-five ordered with 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 enlarged from 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, April 9, 1921.

[Illustration: Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, D. D.

Fifth Bishop of Arkansas, Resigned; Member House of Bishops Protestant
Episcopal Church; Sometime Archdeacon of Ohio and Special Lecturer at
Bexley Hall, the Theological Seminary of Kenyon College. Now Episcopos
in partibus Bolshevikium et Infidelium.]

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COMMUNISM AND CHRISTIANISM

Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points 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.

The Bradford-Brown Educational Company, Inc. Publishers ... Galion, Ohio

Fortieth Thousand

DEDICATION

This booklet is gratefully dedicated to the Proletariat from whom Bishop
and Mrs. Brown are sprung, and to whose unrequited labors (not to the
good providence of a divinity) they owe their wealth, leisure and
opportunities.

PROLEGOMENA[A]

Religion is the opium of the people. The suppression of religion as
the happiness of the people is the revindication of its real
happiness. The invitation to abandon illusions regarding its
situation is an invitation to abandon a situation which has need of
illusions. Criticism of religion is therefore the germ of a
criticism of the vale of tears, of which religion is the holy
aspect.

--Marx.

Not only, indeed, is the struggle against religion intellectually
useful, but it cannot conscientiously be avoided, for religion is used
against the Socialist movement by the possessing class in every country.

But to abolish religion is not to abolish exploitation, because only one
of the enemy's guns will have been silenced. The workers have, above
all, to dislodge the capitalist class from power. The religious
questi