must join hands and work together in the solution of our common
problems. Otherwise, we will have to scrap our Christian conscience and
the restraints and decencies we have developed over many hundreds of
years and go out to destroy ruthlessly anyone who rises to challenge us.
Either we work together as civilized Christian men and women, or we
throw aside the decencies and restraints and dominate savagely. We
must be better Christians or we won't be Christians at all.

It is not freedom alone that releases the creative capacities and
energies in the human mind and spirit—that challenges and inspires men
to do good deeds. It is enthusiasm and dedication that gives men
strength. It is devotion to a good cause that inspires men to act forcefully
and courageously.

We Christians have found Christ as the answer to our personal
problems. We believe that Christian principles and policies would solve
the many problems that the world faces today. The right kind of
Christian policies and programs for the peoples of the world as a whole
would stave off the catastrophe that threatens our planet, and preserve
the civilization that we have built up so painstakingly through the
years.

Our precious heritage, our way of life will be lost if the forces of evil
prevail over the forces of good in this world conflict. The new era into
which we are moving will be a golden one if the peoples of the world
can be induced to adopt the basic concept of Christianity—love of God
and love of fellow man.

ADDRESS, ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY
BALTIMORE

April 24, 1961

I am highly honored to be the guest this evening of the St. George's
Society of Baltimore—an organization which represents the heritage and
the traditions of England as they are found here in Maryland.

The bonds which unite the United States of America with England
are so strong today as to make it almost beyond the comprehension of a
contemporary American or Englishman to reflect that this Republic had
its birth in bitter warfare with the mother country. A century and a half
of almost uninterrupted friendship between the two nations has blotted
out every trace of this enmity, so that today this episode in our history
is recalled more as a fantasy than a recorded fact of history. I am certain

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