Of a like nature is Mr. Carleton Lacy's essay on "Induatrial Civil-{zation and Religious Conviction." Mr. Lacy is obsessed with—the (belief) that their hard conditions of life prevent many men from be-leving the doctrines of Christianity. He says," There is no chance for man to live a spiritual life when he is doing rk of a horse or a steam engine." The only answer the present writer would make to that is to say that it is not true. There is a Mission well known to him in which all the workers, leaders and followers, are men who toil, half naked, at the fron or steel furnaces or burrow for coal a hundred fathoms underground, They fare all enthusiastic and happy Christians. They have a splendid. brass band, taught by one of their own number, that has an imposing array of prizes won at musical competitions. They have their own Mission hall, support all their own services and make a generous con-
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