Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1918 — THINKING MORE ABOUT DEATH [ARTICLE]

THINKING MORE ABOUT DEATH

War's Effect on the Minds of Englishmen Is Declared to Have Been Extra6rdinary. In England the effect of religions thought ,of three years and a half of war has been extraordinary. The revival of religious fervor, in many instances the direct result of personal loss by death or fear of impending loss, has reflected itself in English literature. , The most of all recent conversions is that of H. G. Wells, hard-headed and yet tender-hearted Socialist, who now writes of religion as if it were a discovery of his own. Another writer who has been led by the wai* in faith in a life beyond the grave is Sir Oliver Lodge, whose book, “Raymond,” dealing with the communications said to have been received from his son, is one of the phenomena of present-day literature. The war Is .making the world think intently about death and what comes after and, in consequence, is urging them to establish a closer relation during life with the eternal. —Exchange.