subject that he has touched in this volume. Why must people be so gullible? Was it Barnum who said that the American people love to be fooled?

There was a similar instance many years ago of a book which was not accurate or reliable in its scholarship and yet was widely read in France and undermined the faith of many; that was Renan's Life of Christ. Any New Testament scholar would laugh at the idea of this book being treated as authoritative, and yet it did its diabolical work and destroyed the faith of thousands of people in France and the rest of the world.

We do not suppose there is anything to be done about it, except that people should be warned before they make a study of any particular subject to consult someone who knows and can recommend to them the most expert treatment of that subject. What is the use of spending our money and time and energy in reading books which are absolutely false and misleading?

Education and Progress

MR.

R. Lewis Mumford, in his article, "The City," in "Civilization in the United States," page 15, says:

There is a curious confusion in America between growth and improvement. We use the phrase bigger and better, as if the conjunction were inevitable. As a matter of fact, there is little evidence to show that the vast increase of population in every urban area has been accompanied by anything like the increase of schools, universities, theatres, meeting places, parks, and so forth.

There is also a curious confusion in Mr. Mumford's mind between education and improvement. He seems to have a strange, childish faith in all of the customary mechanisms of secularism. And yet, we cannot understand how any intelligent being can believe that these things will make for a better civilization. Education does not make a man better, nor theatres, nor meeting places, nor parks and play grounds. A man may be educated at the greatest university in the world, he may go to the theatre every night of his life, he may attend innumerable public meetings and exercise daily in parks and playgrounds, and still be a most un

desirable citizen. Education in all these forms may only increase a man's capacity for wickedness and vice.

The only thing that can make men permanently better is the grace of God. The practice of the Catholic religion is what the people of America supremely need today if we are to have a better civilization. Protestantism has had its chance and has failed miserably. When Catholicism had its chance in Europe it was making great strides and was producing a marvelous civilization. This progress was brought to a stand-still by the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. After all the various "isms"-secularism, socialism, bolshevism and materialism-have had their day, let us hope that the people of America will have the good sense to return to the old ways and to use the means that God has given us in His Church towards the deepening and enrichment of the inner life of the spirit. Thus only may we develop a well-rounded, harmonious civilization.

St. Stephen's to Raise Half Million Dollars

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IVE hundred thousand dollars is to be raised for St. Stephen's College in a campaign to start March 14, according to announcement of Senator William J. Tully of the Board of Trustees. The fund will provide for a new dormitory and a science building, together with changes in the present buildings, and a permanent endowment of $350,000.

St. Stephen's has won an enviable place among the small colleges of the country, and the present campaign for funds has the approval of some of the country's leading educators who have watched with interest the work of the college under the leadership of Bernard Iddings Bell. Among those who have endorsed the campaign are President Hibben of Princeton, President Sills of Bowdoin, President Meiklejohn of Amherst, and Dr. Frank Graves, the Commissioner of Education in New York State.

"I have been greatly interested in the campaign to raise half a million dollars for St. Stephen's College," writes President Hibben of Princeton to President Bell of St. Stephen's. "You are doing an excellent work there which is greatly needed in our educa

tional world, and I hope that you will be abundantly successful in raising the sum which you have set as your objective. A college such as St. Stephen's, with a small number of students and moderate cost of living and personal contact of the members of the faculty with the undergraduates, does a splendid work in fitting men for useful careers in life and deserves the recognition of all who are generously inclined and are willing to help in a time both of need and opportunity."

The St. Stephen's campaign had its inception at a meeting in the office of Bishop Manning when it was decided that the college must be permanently established in the position it has won in the world of education. An endowment which will guarantee sufficient funds to take care of current expenses of the college and additions to the building so that more students can be cared for were judged imperative needs if St. Stephen's is to continue its service as a first-rate college for men. The campaign for the funds will be of less than a month's duration, opening on March 14, and closing April 4.

St. Stephen's College was founded sixty-two years ago by Mr. and Mrs. John Bard who gave twenty acres from their estate at Annandale for its Campus and provided an annual sum for maintenance. Bishop Horatio Potter of New York was largely responsible for the interest of the Bard family in the project, and he also influenced the Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning to promise its financial support.

In addition to its large contribution of Christian laymen, St. Stephen's has given nearly 600 men to the ministry, 387 of whom are now living and working for the Church; four of these are Bishops: Leonard of Ohio, Fiske of Central New York, Longley of Iowa, and Mize of Salina.

The Campaign Committee includes Senator William J. Tully of Corning, N. Y., chairman; the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Bishop of New York; the Very Rev. H. E. W. Fosbroke, Dean of the General Theological Seminary; Rev. R. S. W. Wood of Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; Haley Fiske, A. Hatfield, Jr., Edward A. Sidman and Henry Young, Jr., of New York City.

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The Fruits of Protestantism

REV. FREDERICK SHERMAN ARNOLD, M.A.

HEODORE Roosevelt was a great citizen rather than a great president. As president, he built the Panama Canal. As citizen, he continually expressed and impressed upon the people the American ideal of his age. Washington represented the aristocratic republic. Jackson represented the frontier. Lincoln represented the democracy. Cleveland represented the plain people. McKinley represented the plutocratic interests. Roosevelt represented the idealism of the average American.

It was Theodore Roosevelt who warned America of the danger of race-suicide.

Roosevelt loved the American people. He could not be contented to see this people gradually vanish from the earth. He knew that a new race from southern Europe and the Levant would not be the Americans he loved. He saw through the sophism of the melting pot. American institutions have been copied by the mongrel folk south of the Rio Grande, but that has not made Mexico or Brazil American. If the people Roosevelt loved were to die, he knew that the town-meetings and legislatures of the lesser breeds would be no more American than the republics of the Spanish half-breeds to the south of us. Roosevelt saw that the American people will die out unless they are succeeded by their own children. He saw that the state rests upon the family. He was a prophetic man. He delivered the burden of America as Isaiah delivered the burden of Babylon. "Wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures"; such doleful creatures as we meet in the subway.

Looked at from the political point of view, what is a religion good for if it cannot preserve a people. Suppose religion does promote efficiency, restrain dishonesty, support prohibition, make the whole nation one great machine to pile up wealth for special interests, if the people die out, who will long enjoy the accumulations? When the great people has become a dark, socialistic horde of south Europeans and easterners, mingled with color, can the thin, white plutocracy maintain itself? Will not the melting pot

boil in revolution and end by electing president a Mexican dictator? That happened in Rome.

Augustus, Ferrero has shown, was a President of the Republic. Ah, yes! But a South American president. The Roman people were dying out.

Religion preserves a nation. Different forms of historic Christianity have kept alive Armenia, Greece, Servia, Ireland. Only historic Christianity, that is, some form of Catholicism, can keep a nation alive, so far as we can see. Protestantism is letting America die. Protestantism does not even attempt to check racesuicide.

It is of current Protestantism that we speak. The original High Church Protestantism was, and what remains of it is, a Catholic sub-species. Calvinism was Protestant, but it was a real religion. And it is gone. The current Protestantism is no religion. It is the ecclesiastical expression of the world. It is worldliness at the altar, current thought in the pulpit, plutocracy in the vestry, and socialism in the parish house. It is the abomination of desolation standing in the place where it ought not.

Current Protestantism desires a religion without external authority. One might as well hope for a state without a constitution. Current Protestantism desires a religion without dogma. One might as well look for a horse without a back-bone.

The metaphysical dogmas of a religion are the most important thing about it. That is why they occur in the New Testament itself, in the writings of St. Paul and St. John. A grocery store or a cabbage patch is based on some sort of theory of the universe. Nevertheless, the grocer and the gardener are not theologians or philosophers. They possess an inherited morality. Where did their morality come from? Who is the guardian of it? The theologian. Without religion, no morality. People may not notice the absence of religion. Roosevelt did not, so far as we know. They soon begin to observe the absence of morality. Roosevelt did and he preached against race-suicide. Who else preached against race-suicide? Thousands of Catholic pastors throughout the land. Perhaps some Protestant pastors also have done so, but we have never heard of it. It must be exceptional. If ever there is a general movement among our people toward the Catholic religion, it will not be on theological grounds. It will be on moral