Courag i ensued a ch has d ere sa Thicks sher unfolding of the personality that lies hidden within; he charms and attracts us; but a responsive chord is neverthe less struck within us by Dr. Watson's blunt criticism of all this as a "doctrine of mystery." And the psychoneurologists, unfortunately, reek so much of the abnormal, However much the successfully treated abnormal patient may bless the names of Dr. Freud and Dr. Jung, the normal common-sense world simply will not tolerate their repellent grotesqueries. That they and their followers, both moderate and extreme, have achieved surprising results is not to be denied. The same may be said, however, of Christian Science, Yogi, holy shrines, and the young bedridden steamstress in Germany who today has the doctors at their wits' end because of her ability to make the stigmata appear and disappear upon herself at will. When a man does certain things in a certain way with the intention of producing a result which does in fact occur, it may be wonderful, but what it proves is another story. The primitive man lights his little torch at dawn every day in order to make the sun rise; and, sure enough, the sun rises. That is enough for him. A devout Oriental, suddenly stricken with pains in the stomach, betakes himself to the temple and prays for twenty-four hours. When he emerges cured, he thinks the great God has heard his prayer. He may be right, but one of little faith might suggest that the incidental fasting had something to do with the result. Even if it be conceded that what he does is the direct cause of the intended result which occurs, still it does not follow that his theory why the result is so caused is necessarily the correct one. Benjamin Franklin would have received the same shock from his key had his theory been that the thunder clouds sucked up lightning out of the earth through the kite string. And so it is that the same result which the psychoanalyst will point to as completely vindicating his theory-the same result will be explained by Dr. Watson on an entirely different theory and without any nonsense about inhibitions, complexes, repressions, fixations, and that convement whole-cloth invention, the subconscious mind. If only it were possible to shut these conflicting psychologists and biologists into a convention at Geneva where they could thrash out their theories and emerge with some compromise program! But, unfortunately, time and the growing child will not wait and there can be no compromise program in science. So our only course is to be practical; to pass lightly over the various theories while keeping our attenMay 23, 1928 tion upon their respective methods and A Great Soul By AMOS N, WILDER Baron Friedrich von Hügel, the great here selected first of all for their per- dividuals of the Renaissance, who rooted The weight of von Hügel's life was thrown, not with Modernism against the reaction of the Church, nor with the Church against Protestantism, by any means; but against the subjectivism, immanentalism, the desupernaturalizing tide of our epoch. He could not protest strongly enough, whether in writing to his friends Father Tyrrel and Alfred Loisy, or in addressing those who represent our modern secular outlook, against the neglecting of the essential "Is-ness," "Given-ness," "Factual-ness," of the supernatural. He saw that our humanizing of religion was dwarfing the spirit of man. He uses a graphic figure to emphasize the reality behind appearances. Besides man the subject, and the screen of phenomena of time and place upon which we look outside us; besides and beyond this last, von Hügel saw the ultimate supernatural realities like a mountain range behind a lot of sign boards. This intermediate screen in the foreground is only significant as it be- The Baron's message carried to the World's Finest Run to SEATTLE (An acknowledgment by Seattle) you travel to Seattle and the WPacific Northwest this summer you will ride on the finest trains in the world. Seattle and her sister cities take pride not only in the excellence of the transcontinental railroads but in the part they played in transferring a wilderness into a highly productive region. Fifty years ago Seattle was an isolated hamlet of a few thousand souls. Today it is the terminus of four great transcontinental lines- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Union Pacificand has a population of approximately one-half million in its metropolitan area. Seattle pays grateful tribute to the initiative, vision and courage of the railroads which have made possible the development of this city and the Pacific Northwest. NEW CAPITAL REQUIRED This growing region and rapidly expanding cities like Seattle need more trackage, terminals, rolling stock. It will take hundreds of millions of dollars for the railroads to finance these vital transportation requirements. The railroads should be allowed to make fair returns so they can borrow money for these essential purposes. The lives of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest are so closely linked with the well-being of these railroads that we plead for a national realization that the railroads deserve fair and reasonable treatment from both public and law-makers. The railroads serving Seattle and upbuilding this Pacific Northwest give you cheaper transportation than railroads in any other country. Each summer special reduced round trip excursion tickets are on sale daily. The low cost of this trip will surprise you. Come out to the "Charmed Land" this summer-one of the finest railroad journeys in the world. You will be a better American because you will see a mighty new Empire in the making, the Zone of Plenty, the Storied Northwest. Seattle Metropolis of The Pacific Northwest large wisdom of the heart, and, again, This man is richly worthy of study The one reserve that one might make upon the full scope of von Hügel is with regard to his social outlook. He sympathized with the ongoing movement of political liberty, indeed. He sided with England in the war, though his father, an Austrian officer, had been the one that facilitated the escape of Metternich from Vienna and gave much of his life to the cause of the old Empire. But there is little echo in these letters of the awakening Christian social conscience of today. Here we touch, perhaps, the live point and intrinsic contribution of modern Protestantism. When von Hügel denied to the Free Churches of AngloSaxondom the ability to turn out fullorbed saints, he had in mind a somewhat mediæval conception of the saint. Today we value a type of spiritual self-culture like that of a von Hügel himself, but our homage goes supremely to that kind of a saint who is a "spiritually-minded man of the world." The St. Francis of the twentieth century will be a spirit like von Hügel in his tremendous awareness of the spiritual realities (of which this superficial age has little), and he also will have a compelling sense of the preciousness of the anonymous millions that will issue in drastic strictures on the inhumanity of our institutions. of humanity." Interest in Napoleon is unceasing. Wilson's book is a curious contrast to Ludwig's, both in subjec matter and in style. Like most biographers, Wilson has strong emotions about his subject, and he sets about in his book to uphold and justify them. H believes Napoleon to be the friend of democracy and the enemy of tyranny, the savior of the revolutionary spirit, th liberator of small nations. It seems plausible enough, indeed, given the facts as Wilson interprets them, that he should have been actuated at least as much by motives of patriotism as by those of ambition. People who are sufficiently interested in Napoleon to receptive to the expression of unortho dox opinions about him will enjoy I Wilson's book if they like the way it is written. Dr. Wilson appears to believe that to write in the popular manre means to address himself to an audience of children. Possibly he is right in th but his style is so ingenuous that one teased by the thought that perhaps he has been equally guileless in his estimate of Napoleon. Nevertheless, his sources are excellent and his opinions interesting. "THE Key of Life," by Francis Brett Young. A. A. Knopf (see list). simple story, containing material enoug for a good short story, expanded into a tenuous novel. It involves the triangle a girl's pity and romantic affection for her first love and her passion (and pas sion, remember, means far more tha sex attraction) for another. The prob lem is solved by sacrifice, but the wa ending of the story suggests that dea will soon offer a better and final solu tion. Brett Young's last book, "Love product of love and thought. This boo Enough," was a fine solid work, th is slight. It is highly readable, bu does not make the demands upon th reader's intellect and imagination whic fine books must make. But it is in on thing fascinating. The setting of of the story is the Valley of Kings, wh the two men are engaged in archæo cal excavation. The atmosphere of citement, the dusty sunlight, the weir ness of the tombs, is placed so vivi before the reader that he cannot put th book down until he has had it all. F. C. L. R The cut to the readers with ad- vice and suggestions in buying current Picked at Random By WALTER R. BROOKS Clarence Day's Important thoughts rock and knot up The Living Bible Edited by Bolton Hall Knopf The King James Version, interference with which in the shape of modernizations or simplifications we have always resented, is in this edition not tampered with at all. A lot of unnecessary and unimportant things are left out-all the "begats," for instance, and repetitions, and so on-and the order is rearranged in many places so as to form a connected story. The Gospels are synthesized, and to read them in this form was for us to get a clearer picture of the life of Christ than we ever had before. In the elimipation of unnecessary words some of the beauty of the old prose has, we believe, been sacrificed. We had rather read the story of Job in the unabridged King James. But the change from verses to paragraphs is very acceptable, and, after all, the reduction of the Bible to a third of its bulk without the sacrifice of anything important, and with so slight a sacrifice of its literary value, is a remarkable and a worth-while work. room most appropriate material for building a but there are full instructions for build- THE OUTLOOK RECOMMENDS TEACHERS' AGENCY in the lock, so the The Pratt Teachers'Agency 70 Fifth Avenue, New York Recommender teachers to colleges, public and private schools. EXPERT SERVICE Dr Esenwein SCHOOLS SHORT STORY WRITING New York SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL School of Nursing night watchman lets him go into the An eccentric nobleman with a lurid past, wishing to disinherit his nephew, hands £80,000 over to the first person who passes his door. Will it startle you to learn that the hero of the book, one Martin Barnes, is the fortunate donee? And then Martin tries to be a gentleman. Of course he makes the grade without too much puffing, and, although some of the smart set are inclined to be a little snooty, Lady Blanche is there to keep them in order. But it's not all pie LITTLE "ADS" THAT REACH FAR for Martin. Two polished and fatal villains from his benefactor's past cause BOYS' CAMP SAGAWATHA LODGE BANTAM LAKE, CONNECTICUT Cabin camp for 50 boys. 100 miles from New York City. All land and water sports. Experienced counselors, campmother, all that boys need. Booklets and interviews on request. Dr. J. H. HOBBS, Director, Lakeside, Litchfield Co., Conn. The Outlook Classified columns are carefully guarded and closely read. The cir culation of The Outlook is world-wide. ructions, but Mr. Oppenheim straightens "ITS WANTS" WILL FILL YOURS it all out in the end. Lowden of Illinois (Continued from page 124) den has lived on the Rock River farm5,000 acres big. In more recent years he has bought and now operates large farming properties in Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, and Michigan, not to mention the old home place in Minnesota and a small one in western New York. He is one of the largest farm operators in America. Such is the leading advocate of the principle of the McNary-Haugen Agricultural Relief Bill, with its equalization fee, the bill which President Coolidge in the last Congress vetoed as economically unsound and as conferring special privileges. H ow could man who has done the things that Frank O. Lowden has done become the champion of a plan which so many people, the President included, believe to be an economic vagary? No doubt his reasons are many. Here is one of them. When the hard times came a few years ago, Frank O. Lowden's farms began losing money. He examined himself, and found that he was giving to his farms the same sort of supervision that he had given to the big and successful enterprises with which he had been connected. He had farm management experts check his business system. They reported it good. He had soil chemists. examine the soil of his various farms. These proved to be good farms. He had agronomists check his cultural methods. These, too, were good. And yet the farms went right on losing money. Lowden came to the conclusion that the plight of agriculture was primarily due to something else than the alleged. fact that the American farmer is not a good business man. And so Lowden became the leader of what has been called the agricultural revolt. I am sure Lowden does not believe that he is fighting simply the battle of the farmers. He believes that, unless farming is reasonably profitable, the soil will become exhausted, the home market for manufactures weakened, and, in the end, the country destroyed as, he says, all countries have been that permitted agriculture to languish. His answer to the argument that the equalization fee would result in increased production is that production cannot be increased without new capital, that capital will not go there unless agriculture should be. come more profitable than other industries, and that nobody expects any such result as that from any farm relief legislation. Lowden always says, after he has ex pounded what he regards as the solution of the farm problem, "It may be that there is a better solution of the problem than the one I have suggested." Many of the farmers who, with Lowden, have accepted the McNary-Haugen plan believe that there might have been a better solution had anybody in executive authority in Washington tried to find it. Lowden supporters among business men of the East (there are such, current comment to the contrary notwithstanding) are mostly inclined to the belief, perhaps, that almost any solution would be better, and many of them believe that Lowden, if he were President, would find that better solution, Nobody doubts that Lowden, as President, would bring the powers of the Government to bear upon an adequate solution of the farm problem. As to what else he would do there may be what else he would do there may be some question, but not much in the minds of those who know his record. in But he would tear down some bureaucratic playhouses at Washington. If any man doubts that, let him read Lowden's "Too Much Government," in "World's Work" for December, 1926, and and "Our Government Halts and Creaks," in the New York "Times" of December 27, 1925. In those articles he speaks severely of some parts of our Governmental organization, particularly of independent boards, and not very kindly of the none too successful efforts at reorganization made by the Harding and Coolidge Administrations. There is not much room for doubt that by the end of the third year of a Lowden Administration the ten Cabinet departments would contain all of the machinery of the United States Government. And not, all of those in the Departments now would be there then. One of Lowden's most thoroughly fixed beliefs is that the Federal Government can stand the strain of present-day conditions "only if we employ in Government men of larger training and greater ability all the time." The candidate of, among other things, the agrarian revolt; trained in large-scale finance and industry; author of "Lincoln, the American" and "Theodore Roosevelt;" student; executive; standpatter; reformer; "safe and sane" by the old business definition, "radical" by a newer definition; a democrat who does not believe that democracy is the last word in government. Such is Lowden, Such is Lowden, the Republican. Vaudeville at Angelus Temple (Continued from page 127) question. But they are there, waiting for ""Sister' to pray for them." "Here they come, from all sides; down from the top gallery, up the aisles here they come," she almost screams through the microphone. (There were perhaps thirty-five out of an audience of 5,500.) But each convert was guided and supported by a personal worker who seemed to spring from the ground by magic the instant a hand was raised. How many remained and sought baptism after being lifted by Aimee to the throne of grace is not known. Doubtless none slipped through the net who could be kept. At 9:30 to the second she dismisses the multitude with the benediction, in viting all "first-niters" to stay and be shown around the Temple by official guides; to see the commissary depart ment with its store of food and clothing for the destitute to whom the Temple ministers, the carpenter shop where are made the "sets" with which Aimee frequently garnishes her evening performances and the school where more than a thousand students are taught McPhersonism and the Four-Square Gospel, go out later as evangelists. But it over three hours since most of those present seated themselves in the opera chairs, and three hours is longer than any church audience in America save Aimee's can be held together night afte night. is The vast concourse swarms to the street. Scores of waiting electric cars take all swiftly back to the big city, swallowing up this tiny leaven of 5.500 in a garish, blatant, heedless lump over a million souls. What shall be said? Aimee is Aimee, and there is none like her. A religious message utterly devoid of sound thinking, loose and insubstantial in its co struction, preposterously inadequate its social implications, but amazingly successful after five years of running. and still going strong, judging fro statistics, the infallible appeal of churchmen. No American evangelist of larg enough caliber to be termed National has ever sailed with such insufficient mental ballast. The power of McPhersonism resides in the personality of Mrs McPherson. The woman is everything the evangel nothing. There is no w to understand how a jejune and arid pulpit output has become a dynamic literally National proportions but hear and see the woman. To visit Angelus Temple, the home of the Four Square Gospel, is to go on a sensuous debauch served up in the name of re ligion. Wanted share our pleasant country ARKVILLE, DELAWARE CO., N. Y. village home. Open May 30. 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