The Washington herald., 1917-01-20
REVIVAL OF RELIGION
AFOOT in entire WORLD
Other Forces Than Organized Churches
Help Bring 1t About.

Thought about the great questions Of
life, thought and reasoned direction, this
is what the multitude demands mutely
and weakly. and what the organized
churches are failing to give. They have
not the courage of their creeds Either
their creeds are intellectual nummery or
they are the solution to the riddles with
which the world is struggling.
But the churches make no mention of
their creeds. They chatter about sex and
the magic effect of church attendance
and simple faith. II simple faith is
enough, the churches and their differ
ences are an imposture. Men are stirred
to the deepest questions about life
and God. and the Anglican church. for
example. obliges-as / have described.
1t is necessary to struggle against the
unfavorabe impression made by these
things. These things must not blind us
to the deeper movement that is in prog
ress in a quite considerable number of
minds in England and France alike to-
ward the realization of the kingdom of
God.
What I conceive to be ths reality of the
religious revival is to be found in quar-
ters quite remote from the religious pro-
fessionals. Let me give but one instance
OF several that occur to me. 1 met soon
after my return from France a man who
mas stirred my curiosity for years, Mr..
David Lubin. the prime mover in the
organization of the International Insti-
tute OF Agriculture in Rome
It Is a movement that has ALWAYS
appealed to my imagination. The idea
is to establish and keep up to date a
record of the production of food staples
| in the world with a view to the ultimate
world control of food supply and dis
tribution. When its machinery has de-
urrfaNfanfttF q txElI
possible to extend its activities to a con-
troll in the interests of civilization of
many other staples besides foodstufrs.
Economic World Peace.
1t is in fact the suggestion and be-
ginning of the economic world peace
and the economic world state, Just as
The Hague tribunal is the first faint
sketch OF a legal world state. The King
Of italy has met Mr.. Lubin's idea with
open hands. 1t was because of this
profoundly interesting experience that
in a rather unsuccessful book of mine
The World Set Free" CMsy. 1910, in
| which i represented a world state as
arising out Of Armsseddon, made the
first world conference meet at Brissa GO
| in italian Switzerland, under the presi-
| dency OF the King Of Italy.
So that when I found I could meet
Mr.. Lubin I did so very gladly. We
| lunched together in a pretty little room
high over Knightsbridge, and talked
| through an afternoon
He is man rather after the type OF
| Gladstone; he could be made to look
like Gladstone in a car1cature, and he
has that compelling quality OF intense
| Intellectual excitement which was one
! Of the great factors In the personal efYeo-
| tiveness of Gladstone.
He Is Jew, but until had talked tc
him for some time that fact did not 90
cur to me. He Is in very i'll health, he
has some weakness Of the heart thai
grips and holds him at times white AND
silent.
At first we talked Of his institute and
Its work. Then we came to shipping and
transport Whenever one talks now OF