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Show THINKING MORE ABOUT DEATH War's Effect on the Minds of English-men English-men Is Declared to Have Been Extraordinary. In England the effect of religion thought of three years and a half of war has been extraordinary. The revival re-vival of religious fervor, in many instances in-stances tiie direct result of personal loss by death or fear of iiipendin; loss, has reflected itself in Kngli-h Literature. The most astonishing of nil recent conversions is that of II. O. AYelis. hard-headed and yet tender-Iieartfl Socialist, who now writes of reli-ii m as if it were a discovery of bis own. Another writer who lias' been lul by the war in faith in a life heyonl the grave is Sir Oliver Lodge. whn book, "Raymond," dealing wiih the communications said to have ben received re-ceived from his son, is one of the phenomena of present-d.iy literature The war is making the world think Intently about death and what come after and, in consequence, is urgiL? them to establish a closer relation during dur-ing life with the eternal. Exchange. |