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Show iinmmmimiiiiii 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 n j n 1 1 1 1 f i n 1 1 r 1 1 1 iiiiitiiiiiiinii miiiiiiiiiii One man goes out in search of God by Dr. W. E. 5ANGSTER U llfiUlcd ( I If ; REPORTERS have been given some strange assignments in the history of newspaper.?, news-paper.?, but no reporter gave himself a stranger one than, when Howard Whitman went off in search of God. He toured the whole United States. It took him to the laboratories of scientists, as well as into church. He went to the hospital and the hsme. He talked to psychiatrists and militant atheists. The nature-lover and the housewife and the soldier going up the line . . . he questioned them all about God. The Jewish rabbi. the Froiesiant preacher and the Catholic priest, all told him what they knew. It anybody asks why he wont In search of God. hp would think tiie question a silly one. Every thinking person would like to know if God is there and what He is like. TOO buSM people T T E fujdsv to bother litn the question, aie v.ho said that it 8nii not he answered, and some "wtfo denied God's existence with such heat that he could not help wondering why they got. .so angry about Someone who was nor. there ! , But the great majority of AReportcr In Search o! God hw Howard Whitman : DoiMeday and Company, Inc., New York, $3.50. . i;t Kt'linlous C'rilMUh people he met had faith in God. The faith was very vague with some of them. God was little more than an upright blur. But. it was dpiinite even in its vagueness. And many others were both delinite and clear. Whitman is sure that religious revival is on the way in Amenta. " Cya.cism," he says. " was the nio.id of the 'twenties, apathy nle mood of the 'thirties. "nd, a grow ing, groping search for faith the mood of the 'forties and hfiie-i." Three out or five Americans actually bo;ong to a church and t.na', normally means tiiat thev do something about it because tuere is no state crutch in America. Man 0f those who do not belong to church believe in God. Atheist aHE case Tor atheism was put to Whitman by the general secr- ' ' tary of tile "4 A's " (American A Association for the Advancement V of Atheism i. who becams XT a: heist at 15 years of jj? h.: Whitman did no1- " '' iTl "lhei,rVicl" there he met U' ' I Je'tief," but eminent scienttsv; said : "God must be . ) Something can t. come out o:- l nothing " "There is i; Hleher Power. I Three tilings, he believfj, coi would greatlv help the Churc-i abl to increase her influence anion;; lng the people : to heal her ov;. It divisions, sneak in languas-- ruW understood bv plain folk, a-. tv recover her lost radiance. Tr Rut revival already beginning won: can be vastly accelerated in tm' eart wav. r . , I M Whitman confirmed rh;- E,nl preachers have lone suspected-; Wh that, people in trouble often fitv so ) r-Lrl t 1 Trouble t0 ' A YOUNG researci chemist in Newpor! Delaware, lost h.1 ti' eve in a laboratory accident, a:; K-out K-out of that great trouble r,chlf found Goa. "He lost his eye but four. 8 his soul."aid his wile. pay- " But did the reporter fi in r God V " someone will say. ew Well, not a God you could pu II In a test-tube dike a clierais' well or take out, of a hat (like '. conjurer). , ,., ' But he found God like a ma: i might find the sun when wat; ' J ing in a forest . . . the source i m light everywhere ; sometirro'B dim, sometimes bright. &:rccn sometimes a blinding beam. jrol And like the sun He is m-yivi certainly there ! j , |