Harijan Poona — Saturday December 10 1938

Let the pacifists that is to say the believers in dynamic non-violence combine to bring home to their nation the implication of this technique and compel it to act up to it. [...] The idea underlying Satyagraha is to convert the wrondoer to awaken the sense of justice in him to show him also that without the co-operation direct or indirect of the wronged the wrondoer cannot do the wrong intended by him. [...] Am I I ask right in thinking that the tide has turned a little bit on the great things you impressed on me ? First was the matter of the Communal Award and the perils of it that you vividly brought before me for Christianity in India. [...] Second was the great danger of the Christian movement in connection with the propagation of its faith taking advantage of the disabilities of people in order to augment the number of its adherents. [...] that if the best mind of the world has not imbibed the spirit of non-violence they would have to meet gangsterism in the orthodox way.