Show ABNORMAL OIt RELIGIOUS US Ij l lime Tho abnormal In Iii religion is hs not a u now feature of life It Is as m old al almost almost almost al- al most as LH the lie rell religious lous Instinct for or the tho strub struggle lo upward UI has hus boon been marked by deviation u rather than directness The rite age I Is l' l more mure than limn any preceding pre pie ceding ono ono one marked by aberration it In religious thou thought ht Ono One Is struck k by tho fact that re religious religious re- re at the c coast has it In recent years been decI deeply marked I In Iii this regard and white while the whole coa coast t seems to be bo touched by y this tendency ten ten- dency lency lenc It has lt been CIl rather In the tue sun- sun southern r region glon that the abnormal ab normal has haH flowered flower In bewildering profusion fusion rIme Tho Holy Roller Holler movement at the northern coast coat Is Ix ono one among a n considerable con con- number of ot curious religious cults culls with an un extensive vogue and a characteristic development In comparison on with the tho whole religIous religious ious iou life of that section however It Itla la Iii there thero but Incidental It Is In tho ho southern sections of or California that ono one finds a condition worthy of oC note noto and provocative pro of b serious thought The problem problem of ot time the great greal West for Cor forthe tho the religionist has teen been tho the lt nb absolute Indifference to spirit spiritual ual things because of or the press of or the tho material l. l But hero horo Is Js a ti condition tho the absolute opposite of oC that Athena Alhona In her must religIous da day when three thousand shrines and del deities lien contended contend contend- ed for or the Iho worship of her citizens citizen was not hot moro more religious than this coast see sec t Hon tion to R. R Elbowing for Cor place on the rostrum arc are Christian science nce divine I science Clence mental montal healing and similar forms while ethical centers circles circle fraternities ties tle societies with messages to bod body mind and soul to Individual and antl society society so so- flourish In marvelous diversity dl lI t l tl- tl til and Ill 1 anti dogmatic deistic and all nil tho the changes arc rung In this kaleidoscope of ot religious and ancl ethical thought Sane observers find tho the normal to tobe t bo be incidental There Is a pa pasion lon fo for forthe forthe the new and differentiating and it I Is scarcely s to lo be questioned that our nation na na- na- na lion tion hn has no variant from tho ho religious convictions of or the OS se ge in the the boll of or life liCe a athe at atthe atthe the coast Earnest souls there here be bo that think t to toIny tolay lay Iny hold on tho golden thread whose other end is in the fair air Utopia that tha holds earths earth's paradise to be In seeking tie reason for or this pronounced pro pro- religious only two things need br bo examined Tho The natural environment with Its sunshine sunshine sun tiun- shine its brilliant flora an and Its matchless match malch- less reward regard for or toll loll offers no tangible reason reagon It II Is Js rather In the tho people Tho The ThoI I vast t t stream of pL broken physical i life lito tl that ll has Howell flowed Into California I Ifor for a quarter of a century is tho source of or this hits Flocking to seek eek health ready ready- yielding to any departure from that tha which the ages ago's life has tested am and antl proved dependable that thai promised It It was vas the order In the tIme soil soli of or those these te O lives there is the lie secret rho Tho old truth of the re relation rc- rc lation of or a sound body anti ami a n. sound mind pr Jh problem ll The lIW shallow hahlo false fulse and often onen bIzarre philosophy philo sophy that that has been loot rooted d In In n a life survives to tu lend warped physical h for the spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- Itself In cl Ce ual equivalent alent or of that old middle age C the thc the philosophers philosopher's stone and a al llie l class rmel it I and l who are arc In tho the last analysis blase lell religionists religion religion- lon lon- hats fin find lifes life's one oie supreme Interest In intile tho tile latest voice that proclaims the thene thene ne' ne new ne and forsooth the abiding In that which must minister to bo body y an and to soul |