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Show No Reason to Assume World Is Worse Today Than It Has Been in the Past By RIGHT REV. CHARLES H. BRENT, Buffalo (Episcopal). I' . Although I wish I could believe a reconciliation between Christian teligion and science has been reached, I cannot find that to be the case. despite the existence of a better understanding. The world today appears worse than formerly because society now lies before us like an open book. We know more about the whole world today at any given moment than we once knew about our own country. It is true, I suppose, that our day has struck a disturbed patch of history. At any rate, suppressed disorder has burst through the surface of things. The responsibility for the eruption rests squarely on the shoulders of all the people, the rich, the educated, the privileged being the most culpable. All the ninepins of life have been knocked over by our own bowling. We are now engaged in the effort to set them up again, though half expecting ex-pecting some one will send another ball hurling down the alley of time and mess up the human situation again. Be that as it may, we have no cause for complaint or dismay. |