Article September 27, 1913 Issue

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[The Christian Register]

The new spiritual awakening is on its way, if it has not already arrived. It is sure to flow into many channels that heretofore have been left dry, and to bring with it a kind of rejuvenation and blossom time of humanity that always comes with the opening of a new era of positive faith, following the aridity of periods of negation and denial.

The marvelous material prosperity of the past half century has seemingly made men not happier, but more restless, more greedy, more feverish, and eager for violent sensations and novel excitements. The whirling age is upon us, the time of ever more rapid motion, noise, confusion, and the loud passions of thronging masses of people. But it is impossible to believe that this phase will continue indefinitely. When the pendulum swings back again toward sanity and reason, the acceleration will cease, a sense of exhaustion and weariness will turn men again to the life of contemplation and quiet. New social ideals will bring a happiness perhaps more lasting, more satisfying, than anything the world has known.

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