Article June 28, 1913 Issue

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with contributions from Stanley A. Mellor, G. Campbell Morgan, Frank J. Goodwin, John E. White

[Rev. Stanley A. Mellor, B.A., Ph.D., in The Christian Commonwealth.]

No unprejudiced observer of contemporary life would deny that the most significant fact in the world of men today is a certain temper and spirit of thought and of action to which the only satisfactory name that can be given is that of "revolt." We are living in a definitely revolutionary age; in an age marked on every side by a characteristic readiness to abandon the ideas and standards which have come to us from the past, and to substitute, at one blow as it were, new standards and new ideas. Already, in some directions, the significant spirit of the hour expresses itself with open violence; while in other directions there is evident a strong distrust of what may be called gradual methods, and an equally strong desire to break, once and for all, with the past, and even by sudden violence to overthrow the old order and establish the new. Men and women seem prepared to risk all, "neck or nothing, heaven's success or earth's failure," in response to inward desire and inward demand. It is today very significantly true that "the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence," and the violent would take it by storm. The real reason for this is to be sought ultimately in the fact, also of the deepest significance, that not for many generations has the sense of personality, the feeling of individual worth and value, been so strong as it is today.

[The Outlook.]

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