cried Elijah in If the Lord be Dare we halt
'How long halt ye between two opinions?' passionate appeal to the erring house of Israel. God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him.' for a moment longer between the God of eternal righteousness and the Baal of Bolshevism? Are we to sell our birthright of truth and integrity for a mess of red pottage prepared by the hands of Lenin and Trotsky, red with the blood of countless innocent victims? Are we to crucify our good name on a cross of murder and pollution? Can we yet save our soul alive, or must we make friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, and fall on the neck of unrepentant prodigals and kiss them?
Oh, their offence is rank: it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
A brother's murder,
aye, a father's, mother's and sister's destruction, a whole country's ruin, desolation and woe.
ὦ δεινὸν ἰδεῖν πάθος ἀνθρώποις,
ὦ δεινότατον πάντων ὅσ ̓ ἐγὼ
προσέκυρσ ̓ ἤδη.