"Prima fade, the Labour Party has a good claim to
be considered the Christian party "—the Christian party, it will be noted. The affirmation occurs early in a pamphlet, In this Faith We Live, issued by the Parliamentary Socialist Christian Group, with a brief foreword by Sir Stafford Cripps, who says, very -truly as I think, that " Christianity is the one force great enough to provide the dynamic power which can stabilise and strengthen progressive democracy." The pamphlet is well worth reading. Much that it says about social reform, social understanding and relations with Russia is thoroughly sound. What is not perfectly clear is how far the name of Christianity is being invoked in the interests of a political creed. We used to be familiar with the Christian Socialists. Is there any significance in the fact that the present group call themselves Socialist Christians ? I imagine not. But whether " This Faith " in which we live is Christianity or Socialism is not as completely clear as it might be. However, the authors of the pamphlet seem reasonably broadminded, and they would no doubt concede the possibility of a Christianity which is not necessarily
Socialist.
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