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...short book published this week, a Presbyterian minister from socialist New Zealand has done his best to bring two strong faiths-Marxism and Christianity -within hailing distance of each other. But Alexander Miller's The Christian Significance of Karl Marx (Macmillan; $1.75) is not likely to convert many Christians to Communism...
...Author Miller, who was in charge of churches in London's dockland area in 1938 and who survived the blitz as a pastor in the thoroughly bombed borough of Stepney, has no hesitancy about putting his left foot forward. Unlike the Church of England's famed "Red" Dean of Canterbury, however, he is careful to put it down on the platform of Karl Marx's social theory, rather than on the pit-strewn ground of Stalinist Russia...
...expounding the theory of Marxism, Presbyterian Miller is at his lucid best. Readers who have long shuddered at the jabberwocky of "dialectical materialism" will find this book's opening chapters a clear, practically painless exposition of Marxism's fundamentals. But Author Miller's efforts to find common denominators between the Communist Manifesto and the New Testament are less successful. Christians, says he, would be better Christians for studying Marx because Christians must act in the world...
Presbyterian Miller believes that Karl Marx provided some knowledge that is necessary to effective action. Says he: "Marxism is an indispensable key to history. Its essential doctrines stand, and the contemporary process of social change is inexplicable without taking account of them. It is a scientific sociology...
...most part the hitters were ahead of the pitchers. Hank Greenberg, the Pirates' new home-run specialist, hit one the second day, and pretty soon everybody was doing it. The iffy New York Giants clouted six in one game against the Dodgers. The Reds' Eddie Miller, a fine shortstop but not much of a hitter, busted four in six days. The Boston Red Sox' third-baseman, Eddie Pellagrini, was ordered to bunt and socked a homer over the fence. Said he, after trotting shamefaced around the bases: "I'm sorry ... I just don't know...