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Show I- ou THE BOOK OF BOOKS FOR ALL MEN. Collier s presents an appeal in favor of the Bible, under the heading, "Back to the Bible." which Is here reproduced for its literary excellence and originality: "Certain of our wise men of today have shaded away sin till it becomes 'an expression of temperament. They tell us that we sin because our grand father sinned, and because our home is situated In the wrong block. These are clever words of clever comfort era, and surely they ought to wipe away forever tbe tears from our eyes But they do not speak to human need They leave the ltfe blighted, and the heart ashamed. They leave the sinning one to continue In de spair. He does not ask that his sin shall be explained away. He wish es forgheness and a rresh start. In the. Book, which is not read as once it was, there are no soft words about sin. But the way out Is shown And not only l6 forgiveness offered in thlB Book, but man's need of com fort is met There Is comfort Id plenty These writers know the hu man heart. They saw man broken by his toll and his grief And for this, too, they had the answer. They told of a Bolng of love, hidden Just back of this rude and temporary unl verse. This love, they said, Is con sclous of how the littlest child and the old man are sick at heart for one to come close to their loneliness When again will any company of; writers say the things they know In such illinc words auch pictures of humble life the boy far away frorr the faces of his home and far gonf in shame such true stories of lowly devotion breaking through Into beau ty? Much is swept away between III and them, but not one accent of Nao mi's voice is lost to us. and still tb "Turn agsln, my daughters." Is as wistful as when it breathed through the alien com What richer con solatiou are we hungry for that we turn from Judea? Has the human heart changed under the wear of the countries so that sin no longer seeka forgiveness, and grief has no need ol a comforter Have our ships sailed so far that they have revealed to us a braver continent than the fields where pain once reigned? Is our sol enrp po ruute that it has banlBhso failure from mans life'1 is man's heart at last self-sufficient and all sufiii ing?" oo |