Evening star., 1941-02-05

had told him that 95 per cent of
i the troubles of business were not in
the business but in the snarled lives
of the personnel.
This led to the necessity of form
| ing groups where a kind of secular
| conversion was attempted. But this
secular conversion was not enough.
The psychologists are being forced
TO try to produce changed lives, for
life demands that change. A gen.
Grafton that has lost God is now
being compelled to seek for God
through the very pressure of life
| itself"
Rev. Lee Talks at Schools.
The school program took in the
HyattSville MD High School where
the Rev. Philip Lee, secretary of the
China Christian Broadcasting Asso-
citation, described the spreading of
Christianity as a blessing out of the
tragedy of war. DR.. Lee also ad-
| dressed an assembly of students at
Dunbar High School.
Some people think the Christian
religion is an escape from response
bility, Miss Anna v. Rice, former
general secretary of the Interna-
tional Y. w. c. A., charged during
a radio talk this morning.
They lay their burdens on the
Lord and don't do anything about
them" she declared.
INT
| Home Forum, she said religion could
be considered an escape in one
| sense-an escape from fear.
Youth Needs Philosophy.
1.-The Christian who has the con-
viction that God is the controller
and that there is a center of truth
and beauty in this world will have
the courage to face things" she de-
clared.
Asked if she believed young peo-
pie are thinking more about reli-
gion these days, she responded that
| thoughtful youths are finding that
they must have philosophy of life
that will enable them to meet the
present world situation.
Later, Miss Rice addressed the
Women's Christian Life Forum at
Foundry Methodist Church, one of
the forums of this kind held simul-
taneously in six sections of the city
Plcturing Christianity as facing
organized resistance for the first
time in thousand years, Miss Rice
said that only a renewed faith in
| Christianity can prevent our chill
dren's children from being thrust
into concentration camps" as pen
atty for religious worship.
Miss Lester Talks to Club.
She suggested that Sunday schools
and Bible classes place more en-
phasiS on the forces of evil in their
teaching and that they look for
situations in America similar to
| those leading to disaster in Europe
She mentioned financial insecurity.
the cyniciSm of youth and racial
discrimination as some of the situa-
tions in America that find their
counterpart in Europe.
Miss Muriel Lester, founder of
Kingsley House in London, told the
Zonta Club at a luncheon session
that the scourge of war has been
prepared by millions of us negative,
lazy-minded people"
In Germany, Britain, France and
the United States, she charged, man
has really believed that he knew
better than God Although forms
of worship have been adhered to,
she said, intellect has been relied
on rather than God and spiritual
training has been considered crude
and naive"
Others Give Talks.
Miss Lester also addressed the
Women'S Christian Life Forum al
Emory Methodist Church. At other
women's forums the speakers we're
Mrs. Hilda Ives. professor at
Andover-Newton Theological Semi
nary. who spoke at Vermont Avenue
Baptist Church; DR.. Adolf Keller
of Geneva, Switzerland, who was
heard at Chevy Chase Presbyterian