The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23

suggested to her mind that her af- fliction had been sent by God. She ac- cepted the perilous suggestion, but never confronted it."
 One day., continued the author "Maude Royden heard sermon which made her think of Jesus as teacher, just as one thinks of Plato and Aristotle.
 ",rhts was & secret in life which she had missed, a power which she had never used, and 1t was the turning point evidently and We find The Gentleman with a Duster" telling us of how Maude Royden became a re- markabIe preacher of spiritual pow CT and mystic faith and she is de- scribed as "a true woman and great man, having a personality of perfect balance, which makes her "so safe 8 writer on questions of ex- treme delicacy, such as the problem of sex" The picture is altogether pleasing, and those who read of her hangs a portrait of Newman and a prie Dieu stands against one of the book shelves"
 Miss Royden is the assistant preacher at the City Temple in Lon don and she has been lecturer at tho University of Oxford Extension Dele gacy. She has been active in the NAI1OHAl OnlOn OI W SaA frage societies, and sre Is great Iv reapected as writer on the economical, ethical aspect of the religious movement of women; but, nevertheless, there are very conservative persons who look on her as a flaming Socialist, and there are socialists who regard her as rather a tepid Christian. She may be described as modern Fly patia with emotional Christian ten dencies she is serious and sincere- and she delights in what is called service"
 'In her sitting room. which is al- most a study and nearly an office. hangs a portrait of New man and aprie Dieu stands against one of the book shelves"
 Miss Royden tells me- says The Gentleman with a Duster", that So far as her own experience goes, hu- manity does not seem to be troubled by intellectual doubts. Humanity, as she sees it. Is immersed in the lu- cessant struggle of moral evolution.
 What men and women want to know In these days, Miss Royden as- sures men out of the richness of her great experience, lis whether Chris tianity works; whether it does things. The majority of people she feels sure are looking about for something that helps'-somethins that will help men and women te fight down their lower nature: that will convince them that their higher nature Is a reality and that will give them living sense of companion ship in their difficult lives-lives often as drab and depressing as they are morally difficult.
 She is, I think, says the author, of Painted Windows, one of the most persuasive preachers of the power of Christianity in any Eng fish speaking country.
 ITO the prosperous and timid Christian, Maude Royden appears as dangerous evangelist of socialism and to the fiery socialist as a tame and sentimental apostle of Chris tianity".
 "She Is a mystic" the author says in conclusion, "but she differs from a mystic. like Dean Inge in this: that she is a mystic impelled by human sympathy to use her mysticism as her sole evangel."
 Loving the Salvation Army as do, personally adoring the commander of the army in America. Evangeline Booth, naturally my interest In the chapter devoted by 'The Gentleman with a Duster' to General BramweIl Booth--was at fever heat-set in as it Is between the chapters devoted to Cannon E. W. Barnes" and "Dr. W. E. Orchard.
 The opening words that "The Gen