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"In our country there seems to be a movement toward atheism today, and many teachers in our schools and colleges have become agnostic or atheistic. Under the spell of their teaching many of our young people are losing their faith." Referring to the work of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism and to meetings in Manhattan and Chicago of the League for Industrial Democracy, Mrs. Shepard said: "The League ... is a society trying to win college boys and girls in a radical movement. They met [in Union Theological Seminary] under the title 'Guiding the Revolution.' . . . [From the meeting at the University of Chicago] they sent a telegram to the New York meeting. I am told, reading, 'Swell conference. Twenty-three colleges represented. Yours for the revolution. . . .' and saddest among the movements for breakdown is the effort of a Modernist clergyman in this city who heads 'reconciliation tours.' taking theological students to visit Anarchists, Communists, I. W. W.'s, Socialists and union labor leaders. The breakdown of things our ancestors stood for urges you to do everything possible to bring people back to the word of God."