The Social Credit Movement

Even a dynamic message like Social Credit will remain where it is if there is no messenger to carry it.

lf, knowing the truth, you just sit down and keep silent, how can you expect your brother to hear the truth? And if he does not hear the truth, how will he know the truth?

Exception was not made for the greatest Revelation of all time. It was brought to our world by the Son of God Himself. But only a number of people, in a small land, heard the Truth, from the very lips of the Word made flesh. And the Revelation is not repeated directly by God to each man through the centuries.

The last instruction given by Jesus to the few disciples assembled for the supreme farewell on Mount Oliver was: Go and teach.

Christianity spread, because Christians spread Christianity. What one had learned, he had no greater desire than to communicate it to others. The message was found too good to be kept to the individual. And it went from brother to brother, from friend to friend, from slave to slave, and also up and down the layers of society.

This had to be done at great risks, often at the risk of life itself. But it was done. And the first Christians were right: Light must shine for all.

There is, we believe, no better method to propagate a good truth, a great message like Social Credit. And such is the method adopted in the Social Credit movement led by the Institute of Political Action.

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A good messenger does not lose sight of his mission. He moves for the message, nor for the promotion of his own interest, commercial or political.

Once a so-called Social Crediter begins to think that the appealing aspect of Social Credit is a good tool to promote his own interests, to push his commercial undertaking, or acquire publicity and perhaps help him ascend the steps towards some parliamentary hill, that man becomes a liability, not an asset, for the propagation of the doctrine of social Credit.

If Mr. X sets his petty though inflated person between Social Credit and his audience, the audience will not see Social Credit. They will just see Mr. X, and promptly sense his game. They will have only learned that one more man is after them, to exploit them under a new cloak. This will but create coolness, if not aversion, towards Social Credit, and the bad impression left may not be easily effaced.

The Institute of Political Action recruits apostles for the cause, not parasites. The men thus trained by the Institute make wonders for the advancement of Social Credit.

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But how do these apostles promote Social Credit? -- They carry the message. And their mission is greatly facilitated by the tool they have in hand. They need not give extensive lectures on Social Credit. They simply try to introduce the Social Credit paper to every family they can reach, and let every one study for himself. This protects the soundness of the message and causes the other individual to do his own part, to produce a healthy effort to grasp more of the bright vision.

The Social Crediter who gains another subscriber to his paper is not one cent richer for that, materially speaking. But he feels a great joy, at the thought that the paper will now periodically bring the Social Credit truth to one more family, every issue shedding more light and strengthening faith in the Social Credit idea in that home. And who knows? A new apostle for the cause may come out of the new Social Credit home.

Every Social Crediter is strongly invited to be a torchbearer. It is every one's responsibility; and it is within the ability of everyone.

Difficulties? Possibly. Let us say surely. But, as expressed in the underscored words of Lady Edith Douglas's message to the Australian Social Crediters assembled in Melbourne:

"You, each one of you, are also conscious of your power, and of your understanding, and of that glimpse of truth that Douglas's vision and work has given to us all, which makes us strong". Just show your copy of this paper to a prospect. Say a word or two. Emphasize an article, an idea that may have impressed you more. Then invite him to subscribe: $2.00 for twelve issues. Use the subscription form shown page 2 of this issue. Send the filled form to:

Social Credit

Box 27, Delorimier Station.

Montreal, Que.

This office will do the rest, and the paper will continue your good work.