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Haeussler, Armin, March 22, 1947.
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Dear Albert Einstein: | Dear Albert Einstein: | ||
| − | Your article on the atomic bomb recently sent to the clergy is a masterpiece of logic. After using part of it in a recent sermon I sent it on to my son John at Mercersburg Academy where it aroused the excited at-tention of | + | Your article on the atomic bomb recently sent to the clergy is a masterpiece of logic. After using part of it in a recent sermon I sent it on to my son John at Mercersburg Academy where it aroused the excited at-tention of many boys there. You are undoubtedly right in contending that there is no defense against the most terrifying and destructive device ever invented by man. Your proposal of re-eductating mankind along the moral and spirtual lines with the emphasis on global perspectives and the abolition of international feudalism deserves the unstinting support of the Church. |
Such support must, of course, be tangible and material; idealism always antedatesthe practical. I am, therefore, glad to join the ranks of ministers who will do what they can to further the objectives of your Emergency Committee. Soon after my sermon th members of the Ladies' Aid Society of my church voted to send your committee $50.00 out of its treasury and yesterday I was informed by the treasurer, Mrs. Gurley Brown, that the money had been remitted. | Such support must, of course, be tangible and material; idealism always antedatesthe practical. I am, therefore, glad to join the ranks of ministers who will do what they can to further the objectives of your Emergency Committee. Soon after my sermon th members of the Ladies' Aid Society of my church voted to send your committee $50.00 out of its treasury and yesterday I was informed by the treasurer, Mrs. Gurley Brown, that the money had been remitted. | ||