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Show o r- tj A SIMPLER LIFE. In recent years the cry has been I rising for a simpler life. It is a voice I in the wilderness; in the din and clat- I tcr of our complex civilization it I seems faint and far off, but it is mak- I ing itself heard; it begins to be cvi- I dent to all thotful people that we must somehow manage to get away I from these entanglements of sense I and live a freer life. In these arti- I ficialitics and extravagances the soul j is enfeebled and belittled, and the national na-tional vigor is lost. If we want to save our nation from decay we must learn to live a simpler life. And this change will not be wrought out by evolutionary processes; it means revolution rather; not by violence, we may trust, but certainly by choice, by effort, by struggle and resistance we shall turn back these tides of ma-tcrialis.ni, ma-tcrialis.ni, and lead the current of our national life into safe channels. WASHINGTON GLADDEN in The Church and Modern Life. tv |