Whittaker Chambers… Reverence For Life
By DONALD DeMARCO Whittaker Chambers, wrote Henry Regnery, who had known many great men during his long career as a publisher, was “one of the great men of our time.” Chambers viewed himself in humbler terms as a man “tarnished by life” and yet “an involuntary witness to God’s grace and to the fortifying power of faith.” It was a life, nonetheless, that, for Regnery, “put all of us immeasurably in his debt.” It was Chambers’ unswerving conviction that “the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.” He described the vision of Communism as “the vision of Man without God.” And what he learned from Godless Communism allowed him to conclude…Continue Reading