Show Overcrowded Lives One of the Greatest Menaces to the American Home By Dy REV HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Baptist New l York Y NE KE of our most important modern problems comes om fr from m the O OKE OE li fact that we have an outer world of or multiplying complications complications J trying to crow crowd into a day ay that will not grow longer and into a capacity to pay attention that will not expand In conse conse- consequence consequence consequence quence we are like su subway way trains in the rush hour Open our doors even evena evena a little and cn endless less pushing things crowd in until the space is jamme jammed and nothing more can enter As a result we live lire cluttered lives frequently with lovely and excel excel- excellent excellent excellent lent things pushed out and thinus things n about ut which we do not care entering This is the secret of or failure in th thousands of American homes many going to pieces because love lore and romance arc are crowded out The schedule that tyrant of modern life that tells us what we must be doing every half hour for weeks ahead wrecks our homes the hus hus- husband husband husband band and wife having haring different schedules and both forgetting to save the situation by scheduling time with each ach other Any man who is too busy Lusy to schedule time with his his family is too busy Materialistic atheism and beastliness are two kin kinds s of religion but most irreligious persons are neither atheistic nor beastly and merely I have allowed their time and thought to be pre engaged Let the great I reverences stand at the center of life and never let lct the thc jostling 0 crowd of I t things h pull and haul you OU until you JOU yourself become a mob I |