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periors to recognize a standard of pur-
ity and virtue these same superiors
Scorn for themselves, and at the same
time tempted by pleasure and ease on
the one side, and driven by poverty
and joyleSsnesS on the other; sin
judged without mercy in the poor and
sheltered from profane observation in
the rich; faces in the likenesses Of
England's aristocrats, unacknoWI-
edged playing in London cutters;
these are a few of the evils the bur-
dens of Isaiah and Jeremiah are re-
hurled against. John Storm wars in
vain. Glory, having left the Isle of
Man to become nurse in a London
hospital, seems to be going beyond his
influence. This is the final evil and he
seeks escape from the miserable COM
plications of the world in the peace Of
an Anglican brotherhood.
Love is love and only God strong
ier," says John, Storm. Here he RACES
for a year in ignorance of what is
happening to Glory without, until he
can stand it no longer.45 The. .naGnas
tary i" nit the call of God and he
comes out to, find Glory again. In the
meantime Glory has gone through the
depths of everything save sin, and
John now finds her a music hall ar
fist. He has had enough of the mo-
naStic SecluSion and work becomes
his gospel. He devotes himself to the
cause of the women and children of
the London streets-devotes himself to
the unworthy poor. He is perse-
cuted and belied; then the church that
he has rented and renovated and built
up is sold over his head for a theater
for Glory! Says the prime minister,
But it all comes; you see, of the ridfc-
ulous idea that we are a Christian
nation! Such a thing couldn't have
occurred at the shrine Of a Pagan
godr'
Glory, who is always in love with
John Storm, thinks for a little minute
that she can give up her worldly sue
cess for his sake. and he is madly
happy in spite of his discredited
church. In itself his religion is sincere
enough and welcomes sorrow and sac
rifice, but always and ever it is second
to Glory. She turns away again, and
taking the life vows of the Brother
hood, he begins his apostolic work in
London The newspapers veer be-
tween denunciation and canonization,
he has many followers, but choosing
to be the savior of ignorance and sin,
ignorance and sin first blindly worship
him, invent prophecies of doom, which
they attribute to him, riot with fear
when the time is at hand and mob his
church afterwards because their own
wild prophecies are unfulfilled; a man
IS accidentally killed, glad of an ex-
cuse, his own class turns against him
and he is tried and committed for Sc
dition and accused of completely in
manslaughter. Released on bail, he is
done to death in a London alley by
some OF his own followers, and dies
with the words of Christ upon his lips.
It is a daring book to be placed in
our own day in the city of London,
and either Mr.. Game is very much in
earnest or very fond of creating a sem
sation. We are inclined to believe in
his earneStneSS. The gloom and weary
WickednesS of the novel is relieved by
the presence of Glory, who is a very
strange young woman, but brave with
all, and honest in her high-spiritedness
One English gentleman, neither sinner
nor saint, and, considering the tainted
atmosphere in which he is represented
as living, comparatively clean and
sane, is allowed by Mr.. Game to exist
He cannot possibly be multiplied into
the salvation of the city-Still, such
as he is, he's a great relief.
1t is said that Hall Caine has az
preached too near for reverence the
the divine founder of Christianity and
| imaged in John Storm a life and death
such as His.
The parallel is drawn at times with
daring cIoseness, both by text and in
ference and, yet, we believe that in
Mr.. Gaines intention the contrast
and not the resemblance, is the motif
of the picture 1t is, after all, just the
! difference between the Christ and the
Christian, between the divine and the
I human that is drawn. with startling
! distinctness. The simplicity and direct
ness of the Christ life, it's settled in
! tention and singlenesse of purpose be-
| long in no way to its feverish imitator
/ John Storm is humanity complex and
not divinely simple.
/ Hall Game has CHANGED upon a truth
! the converse of which is the usual
teaching. Man." says the preacher
"aspires toward God in his intentions
| and hopes, and fails in his struggle
against the world, the flesh and .th5
devil" Man. we read between the
! lines Of the Christian, fails in his mo.
! tiVes and desires, because they are un
! certain even to himself, mutable, shift
ing; it is in eXertion, often blind, IL
struggle, sometimes purposeless, il
failure, even unworthy, that he is al
lowed to approach the divine. He i:
| able to reach the heights of Christ, moi
in aspiration and desires, but in suffer
ing, struggle, and sometimes death"
/ That THE Christians strong boob
4 IN a limited way, a book to arouse bit
| ter controversy against high places
book to shake@eXisting instI
tutions. even, it may happen
! a book to purify for a little G
/ few rank abuses, and q book to bring