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"I sometimes wonder why God per
mits it," said Mrs. McFabro. "I know
it Is wicked, but sometimes 1 doubt
whether thero Is any Clod at nil,"
"You nro not tho only one who has
doubted," 1 itmatkcd. "Thero aro
men who say that religion has broken
down, and that wo miiBt cither aban
don nil our religious ideas or that we
must recast them so ns to conform
to tho facts as wo know them. Some
of them say that Ood is impotent and
could not prevent tho Buffering if lie
would, and others say that Ho would
not If Ho could. ISoth seem to think
.1. C. SXAITH
that they could havo managed affairs
better. Thc remind mo of a tcmark
that Major Henry L. Hlgglnson. of
Boston, onco made to mo whllo discuss
ing another subject. Ho said, 'I nm
willing to admit, for tho sako of argu
ment, that I could havo mauo ii better
world than God did,' but wo must ac
cept It us It is.' ISut they aro not will
ing to accept It."
."I do not fcco how wo can help It,"
raid Doctor McFubic.
"Aio you conceited enough to believe
that if it weio left to you that you
could better It?" I nhkul.
"Thank od! No!"
"I congiatulato you, doctor, on your
modesty," t,a!d I. "Tho war is honlblc
enough without nllovving It to deprive
us of our faith In a. righteous power
that directs tho nffulrs of men. Thero
aio compensations, however, which wo
ought not to u vot look. I can &eo the
hand of God in what Is going on as
clearly ns I can see you. You know
what Ihnerson bald.'
.
'Tls man's perdition to bo safo,
When for tho truth he ought to die.
"ilclgluni did not choose hell as her
fate, but sho has s.-.criflccd herself for
u high Ideal. I cannot think of tho
fato of that little nation without gain
ing a new lespect for tho divinity thero
is in man. Franco has been teborn
In Hie throes of tho conflict. England
has risen from her sloth and has had
a vision of a glory greater than that
of commercial supiemacy, and In tho
United States a mlraclo has been
wrought. AVo have turned our backs
on all that wo havo been taught for
moro than ono hundred jears. Wo
havo entered a war on the continent of
Europe. Wo havo contented to a con
scription law and we aro engaged in a
holy crusado for democracy, which ts
another name for tho rights of tho
humblest man, which rest on tho fun
damental teachings of Christ that we
aro all tho sons of God and brothers
and equal heirs in a common heritage.
The man who should havo said three
j oars ugo wo would do all this would
hav o been called mad."
"I had not thought of It In that
way," said tho clergyman.
"But wo must think of It In this
way If we aro to retain our faith in
righteousness," said I. "I bympathlzo
deeply with all tho bereaved. I cannot
think without tears of tho hundreds of
thousands typified by Tennyson when
ho wrote:
Home they brought her warrior dead;
Sho nor svvoon'd, nor utter'd cry,
but when I take a broad view of the
history of tho wholo world I can
not help thinking that tho death of
theo men is a comparatively small
price to pay for tho great benefits
that will accruo to future generations.
If I should say that tho fact that It is
permitted proves thero Is no God or
that God is Impotent I should bo worse
than tho'mother who curses God be
cause her baby falls Into tho fire and
Is burned to death. Why, do you know,
thero has been moro serious writing
and thinking about God since this
war began than in any similar period
for generations. I do not mean mere
theological discussion, but serious
searching after tho truth and devout
Inquiry Into tho great question of, a
spiritual- power at work In tho world.
Mr. Wells spoko for tens of thou
sands ot Englishmen when he wrote
'Mr, Brltllng Sees It Throug'h,' and
'God tho Invlslblo King,' and they
wero Engllsl men, who like Mr. Wells,
had hitherto had no Interest In i
llglous things. I have Just been read
ing three books that havo grown moro
or less directly out of tho war as Mr.
Wells's books grew. One Is a novel
by J. C. Snalth, an Englishman. The
Coming,' as it Is called, has already
attracted a great deal of attention and
leseryedly. It is an attempt to ex
hibit Christ as the prophet of human
brotherhood and the redeemer of the
world, through selflessness. It con
tains ft scathing arraignment of the
established church In the person of a
narrow-minded vicar, and It proclaims
that thero can be no salvation for the
world until a. new aolrit enters the
iiiiiiiiiiiiffxHijiiiiiiiiiiW '
heart of man and dominates It. I la to
kilts, but lovo makes alive. Tho hero
Is an epileptic whoso father was kilted
In war six months before the child was
born. Ills mother prayed that war
might end, and prayed continually
until tho boy came. As ho grow to
manhood sho came to regard him as
a sort of a Messiah, nnd tho youth
himself attempted to llvo tho llfo of
Christ until ho camo to bcllcvo that
ho had possession of tho truth which
vjould chaugo tho evil In tho world
Into good. Ho Is mado to havo n re
markable Influence over a largo group
of persons not only through his own
life, but through a great religious
play."
"That t,ort of writing always seems
to mo futile," f.ald Doctor Mcl'abre.
"And to mo also, under ordinary cir
cumstances," I admitted! "but In tho
itescnt stato of tho world It deserves
attention becauso Mr. Snalth makes
ono of his characters, a man who had
been crippled at Galllpoll, say that
civilization must not destroy Gci many,
but that It (owes It to itself to help
Germany, Tho man had reached this
tolerant view through tho influeuco of
tho hero. This la tho bplrlt of the
book. Thero Is no hopo for tho .world
until tho coming again of tho bplrit
of Christ. As a novel It does not
amount to very much, but ns a study
In Christian ethics as applied to tho
conduct of affairs It Is worth while."
"'Mr. Brltllng' did not amount to
mucli us a novel, cither," bald The
Lady.
"That is true," said I. "Tho other
two books I havo been reading aro not
novels. Ono Is, 'Do Wo Xted a New
Idea of Ood?' by a Unitarian clergy
man of Trenton, nnd tho other Is 'The
Genius of Christ,' by a Baptist clergy
man who Is the professor of English
literature nnd dean of Colgate Uni
versity "
"Humph'" This from Doctor Me
Unbre. "Tho extremes of btcadth and
narrowness."
"I do not know about tho bicadth,"
bald I, "but I disagree with you on tho
matter of narrowness, it took a secu
lar newspaper, tho New York Sun, In
tho days of Charles A. Dana, to dls
abu.so tho minds of Its readers In re
gard to tho question of Baptlbt nar
rowness. Thut newspaper ' disputed
tho assertion of a correspondent that
tho distinctive tenet of tho Baptist
Church was tho importance of a form
of baptism and nsscrted that that
church rested em the fundamental tight '
of Individual ludL-meiit ill religious '
matters and consequently had no writ
ten creed nnd no hierarchy of priests
oi bishops to decide for any man wliat
ho should or should not believe. I am '
peisonally acquainted with a Baptist
clergyman, pastor of ono church for
twinty-flvo years, who was theolog
ically a Unitarian. Ho Is a man ot tact
and flno religious fcplrlt and no ono
made any troublo for him, cither In
his own church or In tin association
of churches to which he belonged."
"I am glad to heat- that," bald Doctor
McFabro, but ho did not beem to have
much confldenco In what I nuld.
"Tho book by tho Ui Itarlan ho Is
the Iti-v. Edmund II. lleeman," I went
on, "has llttlo or nothing to bny of
Chi 1st, bave to Indlcato that other re
ligions profess to havo had their divine
man, Mr. Beeman Is a deist and lie
thinks that tho orthodo-c Idea of God
Is all wrong. His own thought ts that
thero is no God who can control war,
that God Is tho llfo forco of tho uni
verse, a. sort of an impersonal power
that finds expression In man ns tho
highest pioduct of natural forces, if
God could havo stopped or prevented
tho present war ho would havo done
so, says Mr. Beeman. I confees that I
have profound admiration for tho in
tellectual conceit of a man who can
mako such an assertion, There ts in
volved in it tho assumption of the
finite mind to comprehend tho pur
poses of tho Infinite. Of course, Mr.
Beeman may agree with Mr. Wells
that God Is not Infinite, and If bo there
may bo some excuse for him. But
otherwiso my remark about conceit
must stand. His book will not appeal
to orthodox Christians such as you,
Doctor."
"If you describe It correctly It cer
tainly will not," said ho.
"But thero aro many persons not
connected with tho churches and out
of sympathy with them who could
read it with great benefit," I went on.
"Thero Is a religious spirit In It and a
feeling after tho truth which In splto
of Its defects makes it inspiring and
helpful. Even tho orthodox might
read it with profit, for It will help
them to understand that there aro
earnest and sincere souls In the world
who refuse to bo fenced In by any bet
formulas and havo tho audacity to
doubt even tho authority of Christ
Himself as a rellgieus teacher."
"I should not recommend It to any
of my church pcoplo," said Doctor Me
Fabre. "You would recommend 'The Gonlus
of Christ' to your people, or you ought
to," said I. "Its author, Doctor Cravv
shaw, Is a nattvo Phlladelphlan, and
ho dedicates tho book to the memory
of his mother, who died hero about
a year ago. Slnco ho left here as a
young mnn to enter college he has be
como a doctor of letters and a doctor
of laws, and has written several books,
including a history of English litera
ture The basis of his new book is a
series of lectures delivered to a Bible
class ot college students. He has at
tempted to approach Christ as a man
of genius and to Interpret him by the
ordinary human standards. Yet he be
lieves that Christ was divine and the
Eon ot God, and the interpreter of God
to man.'
"That is the right view," said Dois-
tor McFabro.
"Wo won't quarrel over questions of
deity and divinity, nor will I quibble
over definitions. Wo are substan
tially agreed on tho leadership .of
Christ and I think I can say that
you will get as much pleasure as I did
from Doctor Crawshaw's novel study.
Did you ever think ot Christ as a liter-
arv aranluil Of course not. His art la
so perfect that you never thought
of It. Doctor Crawshaw analyzes tho
sermon on tho mount, tho parables,
tho brief addresses and remarks which
mako up tho wholo body of Ills say
ings that wo havo and ha concludes
that tliclr literary form is tho equal
of anything that has ever been pro
duced, If not superior to tho best. Ho
discusses tho genius of Christ for
Ideas and points out that Ho gavo to
tho world a revolutionary social phil
osophy, a philosophy which has had
moro effect upon men than any other
ever propounded. When ono com
pares tho Christian civilization with
tho civilization of other religions ono
must ngrco with him."
"In hplto of tho war?" asked Mrs.
McFabro.
"Yes, In splto ot tho war. If not
becauso of It. Doctor Cravvshaw's
book ndmlrably supplements Mr.
Snalth's novel, for It Is an attempt to
Impress upon us tho greatness of
Christ as a worthy leader of men.
Thero Is nothing mystical nbout It. In
deed, he protests against tho mysti
cism which produced ThomaH n'Kem
pls's book and bays that 'tho Imita
tion of Christ meant that men nhould
cento In bo men,' whllo 'living under
tho Inspiration of Christ will mean
that they should becomo men In the
fullest and complctest senso by striv
ing to become each In his own way
"such men ns he." ' And no ono ought
to read Mr. Hecman's dclstlc discus
blon of tho llfo force which ho colls
God without iilho leading Doctor Craw-
shaw's study of the God forco which Is i
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Good and Bad of War
Nothing better or moro honest on tho
good and had side of war has been writ
ten than appears in the second berles of
"A Student In Ann"" by Donald Hankey.
Mr. Hankey fiatiklv admits the tendency
ot tho holdler to 5 ietil to vicious influ
cm cm when he is off duty. It is tho
reaction fiom tho strain. Officers and
nx-n aro subject to It But ho Is per
suaded that tho uniform does not chango
tho essential man Temptation Is too
much for tho civilian also. Somo sol
diers fall, however, who would havo re
malned clean If they hod not entered tho
armv. This is tho bad side. Tho good
side," ns ho nts it forth, lies In tho effect
of discipline The world was cursed with
Individualism before tlilj war began.
ti...., .. r .. nn,Ln. .tin. tncict.,! Hint
the ,)rlmo lluty was belf-epres9loii, that
thn unhappily married woman was a
coward unless i she left her husband and
uint nn. iv iini her lover, anu mat ina
m.in who refrained from marrying In
order to cato for a mother, sister or
father was ilenjlng himself tho best
thero vt as In life But Mr. Hankey finds
that tho war has undo men see that
there is bomethlng greater than Individ
ualism, that woiklng with other men
for a common (nuso Is moro Important
than saving one's skin. Ho finds that
superimposed on the Individualism of tho
soldier thero Is u spiilt of union nnd
self-bacrlllcc that Ik transforming him
and promises great things for the future.
Thero are otaer things in this book, but
tho two chapters on tho good and bad
sldo of war make It very much worth
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Anton Lang in Fiction
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PETER PUTTER
ON "GRANT" RICE
What One Sports Writer
Thinks of the Poetry of
Another
In In Cobb says that the likely sue
cessor of James Whltcomb Hlley Is
(iranlland Illce. Just as others have
Bald that the mnntlo of Mark Twain has
fallen upon tho broid shoulders of Cobb,
tho man whom many regard as the best
living American humorist. And while
levers of lllley may not agrco with hli
verdict, thero is a great npheal In the
verco of Itlee, which has becomo ho
familiar to the readers of tho Evknino
1'um.ic I.imonn. Hlco Is tho Interpreter
of tports. Ho finds angles In baseball,
football, golf nn dtcnnls stories that
most of our pports writers overlook. He
has done a lot to dignify sport, Ho Is
moro of a commentator on pports than
a reporter of them,
Drnntlnnd Illce has Just Issued n smal
volumo of poetry "Songs of tho Stal
wart." Ho Ins a raro faculty ot tell
Ing In ihjmo tho vital things of llfo
and bport ns tho adult sew nnd feels
Hum, and to thoso who delight In read
ing virile verse tho Ittlo volumo will
miko an Instant appeal.
Hlco Is a southcrnir, but It was not
until he was graduated from Vutidcrbllt
University that ho wroto either prose or
verse. As a newspaper man ho lias
worked In four cities Nashville, At
lanta, Cleveland and New York He
began as u sports writer ilrtt, but It
was not until ho went back to Nash
ville after stays In Atlanta and Ck-ve-iind
that ho began ns a "colyumnlst "
Ho ran a topical column on the edltoilal
pigo ot the Nashvlllo Tcnncsiieean
dor tho title ot "Tennnssee Uns,"
un
and
u was there that his llret verse appeared
Hut Nashville wat. not big enough to
hold him, and so he went to New York
and there lie remained for bK or seven
ears, leaving to earn a commission In
tho nitlllery. ..... , . ,
Most of tho verses that Illce printed
i i.i Kiinrtn comment havo been col
lected by him anil now aro a pari i
crics up
hongs of
ourage,
'Songs of tho Off-Trail," "Songs of the
dame" and "Songs of tho Drumllre
i ti, nr nil excellent, both with refer
cneu to tho metrical seyio mm " 'm-i.,ti-iit
Unit rlnuK true In all of them
Cobb puts tho enso very concisely when
ho sas: "You llko Orantland I'.lcob
prosn bUifC until vou have read home of
Ida verses. Then you wonder why he
doesn't write in lhsnie all tho time."
One of the very bebt poems In hi"
collection Is the first, "Some Day." Here
U a Fotnple of his Etyle:
"I'm pnlmf homo nomo dnv" -fn
movca the ilrenm of bII the rovln worl.1;
lhe seekers of far Unds viho've lout their
Go-l's cntfnt'tws aliens, by tlio current
i-rom nut the harbor, ?nrl l 'mrj'st l'0"""'
, T.. unknown Und when, tl.e must evtr
Wliiriea
And this Is nil that mikes liro worm tno
. . ' "t : .. .,... t. ,.i,-
""" ""Q'me"'
I cn,., ..i- b, -nrv best ersos are in
".Songs of tho Drumllre." This is typical
I of them:
I ' . ,,
-"-- ".""'" '"-..: ;..
iho i-rave Is Uceli.
Hut what of ItT. ., , -. .,
rerlwps In Bomber No Man's Land wo li
l.nnw our llnul sleep;
Hut what of It? , . .
Flnco eaih of us owes Ood a death and
arh ha Kot in lv
Why not wlnK out with vnllant stride alone
the oiu-n way ... ,. .. .
To where the (Ireat Adventuro waits thla
side of Judgment Day?
So what of It?
Those who have read for two or three
je.irs and aro htlll reading Orantland
Itlce'a column of sports comment In the
EvnsiNii Public LUDciun will be glad
to know thnt tho verFO they read with
so much pleasure ts (n book fonn and
tho btr.-iy bits of poetry that havo ap
peared from tlmo to tlmo nro now
gathered together. There Is a sw lng and
i lilt to his verse that few- or our oincr
modern versifiers possess, ills verse is
not mero verso; most of It Is genuine
potiry, ana lor inuso nu ui,u n ....a
ehalr and a reading lamp and a pipe
or cigar convenient, we can Imagine no
pleasanter wav of spending an evening
than hearing Blco slug these "Songs of
tho Stalwart." PETEK PUTTKlt
S.ONGS OK THH STALWART. Ny C.rant
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A Tribute to Belgium
E. P. Dutton & Co have issued a cal
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hand and cither a pen or a cigar In the
other. Bed slippers aro on his feet, In
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