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The first issue of the Beacon was an opening salvo fired against the “isms” of the 1930s with which McIntire and the majority of American Fundamentalists disagreed and basically set the tone for the entire life of the paper. The purpose of the Beacon was to be “A light set on a hill, a signal warning and guiding men-broadcasting the Gospel of Jesus Christ from the Collingswod Presbyterian Church”.[1] The Beacon promised to be a paper of religion and that politics would not be engaged “one whit”, but this promise was broken just a few paragraphs later when the Presbyterian Church of the United States (PCUSA) was called apostate and "in opposition to freedoms found in the Constitution which come from the Bible" and that prophesies found in the Bible were unfolding due to conditions in Russia and Germany which would signal the return of the Jews to Palestine.[2] While the primary thrust of the Beacon would be attacking McIntire’s former denomination and combating the forces of Modernism, careful attention would be paid to Nazi Germany and the plight of Jews, Protestants and Roman Catholics.

[1] Christian Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 1, February 13, 1936: 1.
[2] Ibid, 1. McIntire’s view of liberty is best expressed in Author of Liberty, published 10 years later, where he posits that the liberty found in the Constitution was Biblical, as is Capitalism and if one opposes his thesis then they are anti-Biblical and in opposition to liberty.