Evening star., 1924-01-27
EVERYDAY RELIGION; Little News
paper Sermons. BY James l.. Free
man. d. D., ,1ISnop of Na&t-
ington, d. g New York: Fleming
II. Revell Company.

paper Sermons. BY James Il. Free
man. d. D., ,;ISnop of NaSi'-
ington, d. &. New York: Fleming
III. Revell Company.
n 7 OF go hard to have religion
M on Sunday. The circumam
" bicnt air is charged with the
spirit of religion on that
particular day. The drift of a fair
proportion of the population is to-
ward places of worship-a contagious
movement Within the churches
themselves everything contributes to
thoughts of religion--the words of
the preacher, the music of the organ.
the voices of the choir, the Sunday
dress of the congregation, their Sun
day minds, too. The whole atmos-
phere of Sunday encourages and
supports the religious impulse. 1t is
on Monday that religion shows a
tendency to run dry-and on Tues
day and Wednesday and on all the
other days between Sunday and Sun
day. So many things that appear to
have no bearing whatever on the re-
ligious life and the future state
pesky things-pile up on these days
of secular Importantly. Business
mands. society with is bewildering
opportunities, plain work with it's
sapping routine, play with its urges
toward greater and more frequent
truancies-oh. the world is packed
with a number of things that lead
astray, or that, truer yet, seem to
have not blessed thing to do with
ones soul. Risht here Every Day
ReliSion' lifts a challenging hand
and beckons an Invitation. Along
toward "A hundred Little Newspaper
Sermons flock here in plain and
specific terms of applied religion.
Here, 1t turns out, that the king
dom of God" is not an exclusive
discloses the office, the street. the
home, the shop, parts of its do
main. Even courtesy and simplicity
are elements in the spiritual state
after ALL deep genuine kindness is Il
highway toward godliness. DO you
want to know about the church and
many things-tor instance, the
church and labor, or the church and
the poor, or the church and the rich?
All here in one little sermon or an
other. 1nnumerable things-about
every situation or demand that any
day can present-each so simply
talked about that one Torgets to call
1t religion, and, with warmed heart,
calls it just brotherhood, instead. A
pocketbook, this, for the enrichment
Oh the spirit.
A CoNaUERoR PASSES. BY Larry
Barretto. Boston: Little, Brown
Larry Barretto? Don't know him.
But he must have been a soldier in
the great war He is a psychologist,
besides. That is, he is enough of a
psychologist to be able to see what
Is going on in the mind; able. also, to
lift these mental states out into pithy
cd ID - -,
of the returned soldler-in essence.
the story of millions Of the returned
soldier. 1t is the story of read
Justment-so difficult, so we'll nigh
impossible. The story of yearn-
ings for the tremendous event that
brought up out of u man such
feelings as he never dreamed himself
TO possess; such outreachings as pro-
claim him, in his heart, conqueror. a
sweeping triumphant force, living
splendidly in the midst of world
rocking events. That is this con-
queror's state of mind-the best of
him he feels is with the glory and
cen the horror of the war. But he is
Mme-and nothing happens to feed
his conquering spirit He is unable
axen TO connect up with his old
y-ob; y-ob; He calls this ingratltude,
preciated hero. Grows resentful.
When he finally does get work
he is able TO put only part of
himself into ii. The most of him is
hero, longing for the Old excitementS
for the re-emergence OF that great
fellow inside himself. Finally. he has
to go back to France. hoping to re-
capture that ardent past. Then, home
again. the dream still elusive, but still
tormenting. And so the story goes on,
showing that the "Conqueror' cannot
be downed at once; that he must give
way, reluctantly but certainly, to the
man OF prosaic peace. The book
reflects. clearly and sincerely, that
which has puzzled the world about
the returned soldier-that has puzzled
the returned soldier himself 4 fine
story. An admirable and useful piece
Of realistic invention.
LABYRINTH. BY Helen r. Hull. au-
thor of Quest" etc. New York: :
The Macmillan Company.
Mother and housewife, bored to
death-dying by inches of boredom.
No. the three babies-traditional full
suffice. The endless routine of keep
ing the home fires burning for the
returning husband and father does
not suffice. Together they constitute
a dead-weight through which no
dream can penetrate, under which no
itft of the spirit is possible. THE
Labyrinth is the story of a mutinous
woman. who declares, in effect, that
God and religion have had nothing to
do with her enslavement, that. in
stead, women have been fooled by
men, have been expected to forego
any freedom that is worth having, for
an insufferable bondage. This, under
. guise of pleasant good manners. is