| Show christian or not william dean howells in the editors study of harpers magazine august will say that the word as a rule of lifo has never yet governed the world that calls itself christian but ai last men are longing to embody it in their social and political ideas with an impulse that animates every humane thinker whether be calls himself christian or nut one may refuse to recognize this impulse one may deny that it is in any greater degree shaping life than ever before but no one who has the current of literature under his eye can fail to note it chero people are thinking and feeling generously if not living justly in our time it is a day of anxiety to be saved from the cur e that is on selfishness one eager question how others shall be helped of bold denial that the conditions in we would fain have rested are sacred or immutable especially in america where the race has gained height never reached before the eminence enables abre men than ever before to see how even here vast masses o |
