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Show MUST BE AN AWAKENING Religious Revival Would Offset Frenzied Fren-zied Evils, Says Gladden. PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept. 1". In concluding conclud-ing a sermon on "Revivals." Dr. Washington Wash-ington Gladden, of Columbus. Ohio, last nlsht said: There Is need of a general awakenlnp of m-llclous m-llclous thought. Tho Intensity of the strlfo for caln. which drives tho busings world at a constantly accelerating paco and puts mammon mam-mon on a throne for above all other Xlngdoms: tho rising tide of luxury nnd display; above all. tho astounding revelations which have been mado within tho last year of conditions In the political nnd financial realms, all Indl-I Indl-I cato a moral emergency In which Mm stronger strong-er Intervention Is demanded than human ex-redlency ex-redlency can comrlw. Any ono who haa read tho recont macazlne articles must feel that we are confronting a gravo crisis. Men whoso operations are therein doncrlbod ar not only utterly dcstltuto of resect for, law; they aro doing all they can to undermine all law and to destroy tho very foundation of tho civil ordor. Thos men either, bellovo that there is no God. or that thero Is a weak nnd fooltnh God. whom thny can cajolo by their ostentatious rifts to collects col-lects and churltles. If tho hearts of thn Christian oeoplo were full of tho senso of God's prcoonce. thero would bo an atmosphere In which the boodler and tho frenzied financier could not breatho. |