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AR AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUES PLAY OF LIFE AS IT IS ACTED IN A SMALL CITY
fCHRISTIANITY HAS NOT FAILED,
FUK ITJtiAS NOT BEEN TRIED
IrQl'essor Kent Says the War Is Not an Indict-
ment or Jtengion, out Is the Conviction of
Civilization for Its Pagan Crimes
TJtIHE flr' loiirliinloli of lnnnv tlioualit
lilful men after the w.u bioko In V.iu
w.. i miltn three venitt nco una Hint
opr -
'oiriitlanlty was n fnllmc The wni was
WChrlsthn so Imibailc that It set mod
tobo Impossible to believe Hint theio was
mnthl"K '" n lellKlon the tidhct cnti to
hlch hid ctttcicd on audi a honlblo eon
"tM nf biutc stiongtlt. Doctor Mcl'nhic
rtnd I "ue uisiussiiik tins in liter witii
$otne heat, when he exclaimed, with .1
t'ihow of nnulltj
.J 'I do not see how unv one c hi vj
jhtt ChilstlinltJ has failed when he sees
Vie heroism mat tno war mis developed
Vjir when he consldcis the self sacilfleo of
f dto-
" & ' "ISA,
PROF. CHARLES FOSTER KENT
Who discusses the lclation of
'".' Chiistinnity to war.
hundreds of thousands of hrao men and
''fenmoii Instill it liv f.iitli in n nnhln i nllso.
4 the wni has linuielit to the sin face some
1. . U. llniial tinlln 1.,,,.. 1,1 ltltin M
VI Hit; llllli .It. ..", .11 II. .11. L.I. .Ifcl.
''But I did not s iv tin' wni lnd piovcd
hth.it Chrlsti.inltv wis u failuie," I re-
f Marked, in .111 attemnt to calm him "I
naa meie! citliiK tin v lows of other pel-
ions Yet I cannot see tint either heio
Slim or self sjii litre as cllsplijod In this
f jreat wni Id citsis ln anythtiiR moie to
Ida with the -ucccss m f.illuic of Chris
Inanity than the ilr-pliv of such nualitles
Fbtfore the duistlm inn uny 1 elation
tto the religion of .Ic u. l.conldas at
Thermopjlae, with li -t ..00 Sp u tans, was
certainly hemic and splfs.uillli.lnK."
'Yes, I know, and the Spaitans were
pagans 1 had not tliuuslit or it in tnai
light befoie What do oti think about
he mattei anj vnv ? '
"1 am inclined to apiec with Piofessor
Kent, of Yale" I leplled "Ho has just
published a hook i ailed 'The Social
'lUcacillIlKS III .ICSUS unci II1U -llliiu;i, III
which he Mitrirosts that the war moves
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Is like from the point of levv of an
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have made the New Armies more than
a match foi the Germans
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Illustrated.
failuie linR mine about because the Chi la
tlnn wav Ikih nrvci been tiled"
"What!' tvclalmed the dottoi. 'Cluls
tlanlly never been tiled' And we nio
tcaclilnc It cvciy week and hlstmy Is
full of the sloiles of noble m-irUta to tho
faith?"
"Yes" t admitted 'Ulsion is full of
tales of livirtMdom, hut um must ndmlt
tint if the teaihlugr of ClnWt and the
pmplnts liad hnd iv unit li effect on
Kiiiety tho mirt.viH would not lnve koiio
to theli (kith. The pcispcutiou of the
111,11 1 is was not Clulstiin '
"Professor Kent," t (mutinied, 'Ins
written 11 most t cm.it knhle book. It (.ould
not liae been produced b( any biblical
student flftv jcais iiro foi men wcie
nfrald thtii to studv the 1511,1c as they
studied un otlar bodv of llteiatuie
Whatevei cle the Hlble mav be we now
ICCOBI1I70 It as the otlal icllulous and
political liistoiv of a peculiar i.ice The
piophcts and pt lists weie men who met
contcmpoiniv piohlems with Midi know I
eilRe and Insipht as thej posstssod AVe
tan studv them todiv without the theo
losjlcil hi is whlih lias led the vvoild
nstiav foi so main tentuiles Piofessor
Kent lias done this lie Ins studied tho
peilod toveied bv the ISIIile as thoimh he
weio studliiB the Middle Arcs In the
documents pioduced In thit peiiod, and
ho appioaches the piophtts and .Tusus
lilmself as though the weio human
beings Influenced b their times and
"tiugglliiB with the issues of life He re
minds us tint the world has misconceived
Chiistianltv and to piove It cites the
lemaik or a theologian of the last half
ot the last leutuiv that Chiistianltv is
not a life but a dogma If tint ievv had
not Ik en held so vvldilv and so peisist
cntlv I do not think that this wai would
have li ippencd You know men ucd to
mill dei one nnntliiM loi dKagioelnc about
dognns We aie ledlvcovci ing tint
Cliitstl inltv Is a life tint It Is an out
waul nnnlfestatlon of an Invvaid spiritual
nw.ikcnln' ou kuo-v tint when Zac
ihcus the giaftlng ta gathciei an
nounced tint he would s-cll half Ills goods
and give them to tho pool, and that If he
had taken fiom any man what did not
belong lo hint lie would lestoro It foui
fold lesus announced that 'this div hath
salvation come to this house Theie was
not 11 wind about dogma, but the outlook
on life had been changed for Zaccheus
and he was a changed man "
"Yes, I hao often thouglit of that,"
lem uked the dnctoi. "Hut we have been
tijliiK to apph Clirlstlanit I have some
fi lends who are whit thej call Christian
Kodillsts, and they have been planning
n icconstructloii of socletj on tho basis
of the teichiugs of Chi 1st.'
"Hut ou know they will fall unless
they icconstiuct the individual members
of society, don't ou?" I asked.
"Yes, I suppose they will."
"Professor Kent puts his finger on the
weakness of theli position when he sas
that they aie attempting to leform so
ciety by popular vote with the majority
ailing. He lemlnds us that the Socialist
places his chief emphasis on matertil ab
ues Insists that the morals and tho re
ligion of people me laigel detei mined
by their economic envltonment nnd that
the Indlldualvas well as socletj, can bo
reconstructed hj a mete economic iecon
structlon. Clulstlanltj, on the other hand,
sti esses tho ethical and spiritual allies
so that the social leaven of Christianity
begins to work as soon as an Individual
begins to live lu accord with the social
teachings of Christ. Socialism attempts
to euro a disease and Chiistianity seeks
to remove Its cause Wlion the principles
of human biotherhood, taught by tho
piophets and Illuminated by Jesus, are
acknowledged and piacticed by emplojer
and cmploje social disorder will disap
pear, and when they aie piacticcdby na
tions war will disappeat from the face
of the earth Don't ou think Piofessor
Kent Is right""
"I don't know but ho Is Hut how nre
we going to do It?"
"One wn to help would bo to put this
book In the hands of every man Interested
In the piogicv, of the woild. 11 Is the
flist hook to appear In which tho great
social teachings of Chiistianity h.uo been
carcfiillv itiiK ,t ot (llt, ,1)lo nm, c)lK((.
tied foi ntii' guidance The book Is roillv
Intended as a textbook fot theological
students, but It Is worth.v tho nttcntlon
of n brondci public."
nnonon w nocoi.As
.'iTSiiANi'J..'"V!u'!.. '" hnrl.s Ip.ior Kni
lltrrntiirn In nto fnlvrralt) ft r,1 Vm
urk Charlrn scrlhner s son
A jIODERNJACOB
AT JABBOK'S FORD
lie Wrestled With tho Anjjel and
Found That Love Con
quered Him
BURTON KLINE HUMANIZES AMERICAN
SMALL TOWN IN FINE NEW NOVEL
"The End of the Flight" Describes, Analyzes and Inter
prets Place and People Shrewdly and Belicvably.
The Problem of Decency in Standards
B'
l It! ON KUNi: lu bis new novel. 'The
Hnd of tho night his put n new
et fnmlllai place In the Kiizrtteer of these
t nlted Mates. tils 15os,urp In which
he stiiKes 11 full-length tlitlou of proi-eiit-dav
Auicrkan life In tlux and nitlon Is ns
(lltlin'ilvc a spot mi the imp t I'tan
foul Mlis dales I'liindnhlp Village. Mrs
Detniid h Old I'lirntet. and nuii'li 111010 no
Itnl Whole 1ll0p vvillois have Idealized
he has followed the reilltle method Ho
taken nil Inland tnvvn of loss than ilO flni)
Inhabitants, Hoclall n If-sufficlont and os
cutl.illv solf-lmiioinnt -md shows In tho
mass the wctlilns ninlilllons of tho Iism
th 111 no 000 "souls' nnd In putliiilir the
aspirations, tho rli-es mid ilnlluts of li ilf
n dozen dramatis porsoiiac
l.ocallzitlon of Itosoioro vvoulil bo diffi
cult For Mr Kline has done ,1 dirlng
Feminine discontent stalks tluougli the
enlv mros of 'The For!" Mnrv Austins
latest novol, and it thrusts ltolf on tlm
attpmlon at Inttrv.ils almost to the end
But .Mr Austin hit ue-iteil tun iharictois
whoso lives Mlmtt m b ipplness tan bo
found when ,1 woman (rases to stiive
against tho lns nf nature and hor. when
Inpplness is deiiioil one mav fine tho world
bi.ivcl and dn nm work with sin h glfti
as 0110 1ms 'I lu piilillsliers dcaorlbo tho
hook is .1 tale f I'lllfomli life Tins docs
not do it Justi. . it 1 tilo of life on
where and iverjwli.-i. in tho I uli.d Mates
'Ibis Is ho Iipoiuxu II oizos hold of the
runuiiiipiit.ils or hum in ih.iriotci mil ills
likivs them In nitlon I ho setting I more-
Iv Incidental Tho hook opens with 1 plc
tuio of 11 group of children acting on the
bitik of a (reek ihe torv of laeobs wres
tling with the oiikoI at the foul labbok, and
Is occupied with tho dovelopmint of tho
lives of these chlldion ,ind nf their intents
iloslnc when one of tho hos, grown to
young manhood discovers his right plnce In
tho world after an attempt to be something
fot which be was fitted neither b Inheri
tance nor Inclination He tried to bo n
lavvjei, but ho was born on the land, he
loves the lind and ho flinllv decides to go
lnck to It He llnds a mate waiting for
him there lo-nlv and glnil to shire his life
And the book ends , ith him at the brook
where ho hid Impersonated Jacob In his
bovhood The gin was inndlng neir Wlnt
happens Is thus clc-tilhul
As ho moved down the swale and
across tho Fold of Mailpoi It was In
deed, ns If all the troullng of tho vous
sinto list ho pi iv od there lnd been but
stepping stones lu tho path tint led
to her nd ns he wont he felt a sud
den stir nnd sigh of tho air ns of the
passing of gro.it wings and tho angel
'of his struggle went from him and ho
know at list tho liufftblp mine bv
which heaven alone prevails against us
And though he felt In going that he
should alwavs limp a littlo on tho
sinew of material success, ho know,
too thit he should never come this way
again nnd not feel the magic and tri
umph of this I10111
Mrs Austin pas hor respects to women
agitators who Beck only excitement because
they have not boon nblo to find their right
place In tho scheme of things .She makes
one of her characters ,iv that the way to
make a Socinlist Is to put 11 man fitted
onl to raise prunes for six ears on 1 ind
titled only to r.ilso potatoes Hoc tuse bo
is trjlng to do the Impossible, he decides
the whole world is out of joint He Is then
rt ids for social revolution, when tho only
thing he needs Is to get on land lilted to
prunes
The story is one to be read leisurely, for
It moves with the deliberation ot the growth
of tho young persons In It The thrilling
moments, and there are manv of them, come
without warning, as thev do in life The
superficially discontented .vlll find much
comfort In Vliglnln, one of tho girls giown
to womanhood Tho more serious-minded
will be delighted with Anne, tho sister of
tho hero, doomed to a loveless life, jet able
to make her way as a successful business
woman, utrlevlng the mistakes of her
father There Is .1 ilcliness and hc.autv In
Mrs Austin's stlo that sets this book npart
li Itself as a piece of literature in the high
est smce and thero Is a social sanltv In it
that Is u freshing In these davs of flabby
and Irresponsible preachments about tho
nils-takes Providence m ide In ordering the
world
THE roiUJ in Mars Austin Illustrated )
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thing audadouslv and sunessfullv He
has fused out of a knowledge, tint is Intl
nn to in relation to Pctmsjlv ml 1 eastern
Ohio sn and Now Huglnud and tint
seems will grounded tn rol itlon to the "Vlld
die West, a believable even .1 convincing
lommuml person illlv Ills ItnsMiin Is no
llteinl enrtognphj of our pl.ue but Is a
complex, with factors adroltlv cleitcd and
skillfully blended, of the clvlo Halts of a
dozen neighborhoods Tho triumph Is In
unking stub 11 loinblnntloti plausible nnd
lifelike enough to inukn tho rendot feel
bo his known l'.ossime nnd Its denizens
Mr KM 110 bns dniio this Mi Kline Ins not
penned the tire it Vuieilcili Novel In 'Tho
Hnd of the 1 light . he did not fp! out to
do so, but bo li ih comprehended within ho
mei of his fiction 1111 (tr.inulln illlv uu
iiipious arra of Amorli 111 Indlvldiiil Halts
anil a veiv full .mount of the psjibolopv
of Anioilian ih.iraetor In v. 11 led walks nf
life His people his Fuming, Ills Mieirv
Hiooks his miihcl ( 1 iv lord bis vlvla
Hanks lii Judge (lav lord, his Son 1. or
II inks his Nellie tit ilistntip his lingual"
l.indb nje all qulik with life (t .ire
true to tvpp, thev move, live and hive
theli being In tho Indlvldu it, vet are never
Isolile fiom the lomniunltj and the people
of which thev ate ptnol
T heso lives (,-ri iti r m less for the pur
jwo of tho storv Kethe In the laldion of
Kossnore The thri mnmiter leglstcts tho
high 1 ost of deoetii In living and Ideil"
III lontPiiipol irv AiiKrlr.i This Is tin inob-
lem md pin pose of the slorv lu hi fat s
Ml Klliu has wiittcii a ' novil with- i-piu
pn-p Penning the plot igonlst thojoung
ihnii vvhii followiil houois at lliuvnut with
political legal and smlil hikiois In lloss
acie the well-groiindid will-groomid
tlliillghtflll II Hi oil! pllllnsiiplllr.il DUIIg
loader of tin town nnalvres tho sltuitlon
'lu twelve vents he had Income P.ossictes
potind llosactes piNnnor It leiu'hed
up and wrtppid Its pottlnefs about him
It lendoiod 111 iii boinagi nnd undo It Im
possible, for him to ncupt It H was
alwavs raising the question whotlicr lie
should bo a ilsln, m a noble man '
The storv nf the struggle Ins more dra
in itlo suspense than Mi Klines liver In
light mnndv of list spring 'stiuck bv
Lightning Ho ban put bis heart as well
as Ills wit in It The action Is more lertot
tlvo of llfes literal i online the people have
Itss nf the coiinolssem s tours de foice nnd
there Is stnrdj, seilous thinking In addition
to tho liveliness of the earlier novel The
portinltiite .and tho eh ir.aeterlzation nre
more elaboi.ate nnd the psvthologllng mine
penotrint Ills Mis Itranstone .1 sort of
ilea o uiiehlu.i a worn in ever soiklng to
live out ot the servant class of .1 hone
koepoi to lions mi 1 liler iltlzen the
ndf-iinpoitant 1 asv -going Judge, to tho
fioth and fiivol the bildges and tin llugoile
of the burgs unart set in a sinlMcr llgure,
one of the vvmnen viho are not the ohlectlvo
victims of impi lllng and inevitable ttngodv
but the motive foicis who m.iko trigedv
Ml Klitio h is put some fine tochnhlilo Into
Ills novil lb Is a lilt laggird In getting
Into the storv but Interesting even In
the prellmliini v taidlness He has written
of Ilossacre and Its folk, has humanized not
.ipothi oslzeil tin 111 with restraint fiom lino
writing, but with dlstlnitlnn and felieltles
ofstvle nd Die Hud of the Flight 'best
of nil gives promise of hotter things to
come f 1 0111 bis mind and pen W II M
Scraps of Paper
mi much has been said and written about
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made announcements of what thej Intended
to do and what thev lnd done Included
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( onsenuenre In the (iv Hired world for Ihe
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nieabure of self conceit,. 'I his Is nnlv
another way of saving that no one cm ac
complish anv big thing unle-s ho Is llrmls
convlneed that ho Is fitted for tho task
But when this self conceit Is 1 an led to Its
logical end tt becomes 11 kind nf Insanlt,
just as the extreme of all logic Is follv Ger
mnnv just now neenis to bo Miffulng fiom
this foi m of Insnnltv 'I hern uio otremlsts
who would sai that she has alns suf
fered from It A man who cues lo itiu
thiough the patriotic lltcr.atute nt Germ my
will find It full of the assumption tint tho
Gel man people are superior to anv other on
the globe and that thoGcitnan nitlon Ins a
work to pcrfoim tint must lie done leg.ird
less ot the wishes of the other laces foi
the leason that Gorman 1 1 ligation Is the
onl civilization worth while 'llieie ore
Germans who have gone so far as to .ip
propilnte God to themselves nnd to Inti
mate that He hears no fir.ocrs not Uttered
In the German tongue lli'i'O Amci leans
iniPiested In this phas-e of the Gorman ihar-
actor will tlnd luiuh Instiuctlon In a com
pilation of the pitrlotii It idling ot tho
German poets piophets pinfessnrs nnd
preachers nude lu !r .1 V II ing. profes
sor of theology In tho University of
Copenhagen Poctor Bang has traced the
origins of the picsent German megilo
manlii back for threo or four generations
1,. th carlv (lavs of the Inst itnturs and
has found nil classes ot German thinkers
affected bi It ttalph minor, who has
wiltten an Intioductlon to the olume. sajs
that tho crime of Germany today Is not
hvpocrlsy, but tint the long piactlce of
hvpoorlsy Ins tired In her 'a spiritual
blindness that has at onco bceomo tier
calamity and liei curse ' Poctor Bang li is
Included In the book some protests against
the egoism of German v uttered by some
German tbinkeis and these protests lead
one to hope with Ralph Connor that
Uio nation after passing tlirough the
cleansing fires of military disaster may bo
purged from her pride and Impiety and
cmergo with the power not to destroy but to
HlMlHAll AM) HAM.KI.IJIAH The Trachlns
n .imiwi I'li'ls I'rnphets I'rofeors nn I
ii 11 iirotnnor nt theoloKi- nt the l-'nlvor
Liiv ..r Cam nliagen 1 rom thn Hnnlti by
lslo llroeihnir With an Inlrclunlon lv
llnlPh CmnVr 1 -New York Oeort-o It.
Dorau Compnnv
How Boston Wakes Love
There Is something fine In tho lojnlty of
Boston to Itself If the Bostonlans did not
. i.ii, ...ii nf their city who would.' This
9 a rhetorlcnl question and wo do not in
tend to get ourselves into trouble In Boston
b assuming that it requires nn answer.
We merely wish to remark that it Is as
natural that a young Bostontnn should lo
cate the action of his first book hi his
native city as that . cat should stand guard
over a mouschole. Ilobert Cutler, who lives
In tho Massachusetts capital and was grad
uated from Harvard last Juno, has thcre
fora fulfilled expectations by writing a
novel of Boston life. He calls It "Louts
burg Square," after the Interesting little
spot on Beacon Hill, where Howells lived
for a while during his Boston employment,
nnd where many men whom the Beacon
Hill denizens regard as greater than
Howells have lived although their names
are unknown outside of a small and select
circle Mr Cutler's book Is n good, old
fashioned love story with tho usual com
plications which prove onco again that
modern efficiency methods hae not et been
applied to tho saving of waste of tho emo
tions in lovo making. Mr. Cutler's people
belong to the select circles of Boston so
ciety, and ono can Imagine tho humble
persons lllng In Roxbury and Chelsea read
Ing It with that zeal shown by the London
housemaid over the Court Chronlclo But
It will Interest that larger circle which
finds pleasure in a story that ends when
the girl decides which of her lovers she
can bo happy with. It Is a creditable
piece of work.
LOLTISUUKO hQIIAHR By Jtobert f'ut'oj '!
luVtrated by hllao Amu tl 00 few lork.
The Macmlllan t'ompiin
A Lefevre Business Story
Tommy Leigh came homo from college
after his graduation. He was twenty-one.
had no cares that he knew of. and his chief
thoughts were of hoped-for hunting trips,
yacht cruises, motorcars, country clubs and
a post-graduate course In the fall, with
New York city as the subject to bo spa-
dallied on. ..... ,
nvainw in nulck succession the talk In
)the library, the struck attitude, the cig
arette, the nmoke In father's ace. the
parental frown, the, explanation and tho
startling intelligence 'My son I ask vou
is a giown mm what iloeR an old nnd
trusted bank employe alivavs do when he
i-pends more thin tils sal irv ? Tonnu's
father was e-onnectcd with a hank
Hut the blow did not kill Thomas Tran
cls Leigh, although foi a limn be did
stagger under It Laboring under a belief
(bit his fnthu hid mKippropilatcd $17 000
from the bank's funds lu order to pioperly
idiicato him nnd nt the same time 1 ill fill a
promise made to Traniiij s mother who died
at his birth, tho ).otmg mn went to pijlon,
() , and entering the automobile business
fiom the ginuiid flout took off Ills hat went
to work and mule good lie would pay
back tho monev his father had taken
It mav bo mentioned that Marlon also
h is a rather prominent p irt to play In the
book Mirlons biothor ttlvliigtnu and
Tommy were clnssnintes at college Marlon's
father Is i rich mm who Heelallzod In
leal (Stale lie finally pure buses a cou
plo hundred thousand dollars' worth of
stock lu tho Tcciiniseh .Motor Compmv,
vvhcio tnniiuv Is emploved 1 his bti) forms
an Inteustlng part in the book's finale
Tho entire storv Is well told and the
lln.il explanation bv Mi. Leigh, Sr , that
bo Is not a pour but a lleh man tint be
did not steal, In fatt but onlv In theory
because before be had become a gicat
m in In the banking world tin wanted more
for Tommy than bo could give, winds up
ono most interesting bits of fiction
that Ins recently been published
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