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The late Dr. E. Stanley Jones, famous Methodist missionary-evangelist to India and America, visited Russia in the 1930s. He wrote a book upon his return to America entitled Christ's Alternative to Communism. The outline of the book is based on Luke 4:18-19 which is Christ's quotation from Isaiah 61:1-3. There is hardly a page in Dr. Jones' book that was not prophetic of the more than forty years that have passed since it was written. The Christian alternative is:
1) good news to the economically disinherited;
The late Dr. E. Stanley Jones, famous Methodist missionary-evangelist to India and America, visited Russia in the 1930s. He wrote a book upon his return to America entitled Christ's Alternative to Communism. The outline of the book is based on Luke 4:18-19 which is Christ's quotation from Isaiah 61:1-3. There is hardly a page in Dr. Jones' book that was not prophetic of the more than forty years that have passed since it was written. The Christian alternative is:
1) good news to the economically disinherited;
