The Washington herald., 1917-01-20

| human Affairs one comes presently 10
shipping and transport generally. In
Paris, In Italy. when returned to Eng
land. everywhere found 'cost of car
riage" was being discovered to be ques-
ton of fundamental Importance.
Yet transport railroads and shipping.
these vitality important services in the
| worlds affairs. are nearly everywhere In
private hands and run for profit. In the
case of shipping they are run for profit
on such antiqusted lines that freights
vary from day to dap and from hour tc
hour. It makes the business Of food SUP
ply . gamble. And It need not be . gam
Bile.
But that is by the way in the presen,
i discussion. A. we talked, the prospect
broadened out from a prospect Of the
growing and distribution Of food to the
general view of the world becoming an
| economic community. / talked Of vsrf-
GUS people / had been meeting In the
previous few weeks.
Drifting to Larger Things.
80 many of u.s. said, seem to be
( drifting away from the ideas OF nation
alism and faction and policy towards
| something eles which is larger. It Is my
idea of right way OF doing things In
human purposes Independently of the
| limited and localized references. That
such things as international hygiene
| take this movement. We are feeling oui
way toward a bigger rule"
"The rule OF Righteousness" said Mr.
| Lubin,
/ told him that / had been coming
! more and more to the idea-not as q
sentimentality or a metaphor, but as the
ruling and directing idea, the structure
| idea, of all ones political and social &C.
| uvities-of the whole world as one stat,
and community and of God as the kim
| of that state.
But I say tat" cried Mr.. Lubin; '1
! have put my name to that. And It Il
| here"
| He struggled up, seized an Old Testa
ment that lay upon a side table ant
| flung 1t upon the table. He stood ovel
| II and raped its cover. ''It Is here" h,
said, looking more like Gladstone thar
| ever. ''in the prophets"
That is all l mean to tell at present
; OF that conversation. We talked OF re.
| ligion for two hours. Mr.. Lubin see.
things in terms of Israel and 1 do not
after the same fashion. That talk wa.
only one of number Of talks about
| religion that 1 have had with hard anC
| practical men who want to get the
! world straighter than Il is, and wht
perceive that they must have a leader
| ship and reference outside themselves
That is why I assert so confidently
that there is a real, deep religious move
| ment afoot in the world. But not ont
l of those conversations could have gont
| on, 1t would have ceased instantly, Il
any one bearing the uniform and brand
| OF any organized religious body, an!
| clergyman, priest, moIlah, or suchlik,
advocate Of the 10000 patented religion
in the world. had come IN That Is why
though / preceive there IL a great wav,
OF religious revival in the world today
/ doubt whether II bodies well for tn,
| professional religious.
| The other day 1 was talking with al
| eminent Anglican among various othe
people, and some one with an eye to hin
| propounded this remarkable view:
| There are four stages between belle
and utter belief" he said. There ar
those who believe IN God, those wht
i doubt him like Huxley, the agnostic
| those who deny him like the atheists bu
DO at least keep the site vacant. anc
| lastly those who have set up a churci
in his place. That Is the last outra g.
of unbelief."-H. G. Wells in the New
Republic"