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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 6

Social problems, particularly! tho'Sfl which arise frenn the cxistfritco of slum conditions in Great Britain, are vigor, ouslv dealt with in a little book.em'Med: "Is Christianity a Colossal -Fail'«re?" {issued by Stanley Paul and Co., London). It is tho. work of an auonyincus author, who contends that C'hfifitian professions and practice are m many respects inconsistent and pleads for an awakening of conscience m. re* card to the conditions wider which sweated workers and other unfortunates eke out a miserab'lo existence. The hook contains numerous illustrations showing sweated workers in their homes, and engaged in the occupations which return them only a few shillings a week so that many of them have a perpetual struggle to keep body and soul together. Besides describing these conditions tho author reviews the varkms agencies, religions, political and social, which mako, or should make,, for reform. His final plea is for Action. Tho world, ho savs, will never be. regenerated by theories. "Only by Iking, roving, sympathetic, actions; only by putting into full force the vital principles of Christianity can wo ever stiecessfuil.v throw hack nil tire forces of evil mid sccure for humanity that spiritual ana material salvation which' piece-, o the dawn of Hearen on cartii. " Shaw's latest jcu d'esprit "Great Catherine," a burlesque of the life .ilia times of the notorious Russian personage (if that name, is generally declared to bo qnito as poor stuff as Awlroo-.cs and the Lion," which latter, hv the way, has inst been assailed on nil side?.at its first production m , Berlin. S-aw is usual!v well received Hi Germany, tart, the Imrlesquo of the Christians in Androciss" proved too much, for the lieiliners, one of tlio royal pnnces. '"'i o ,?' leaving the theatre in the middle, of tlio first performance. ''Great Catherine was, at latest mai date, ottering to Vcr fall at the Vaudeville Theatre, LonS Geo. Nathan advertises for Febviuvrv 4* and San aw!ion Kile of furnit'lra'at No. 133 I'makon Road, on behalf of Mr. JoMpii MnndeL 'Tew<w (trainumr School, winch lias been a centre of education for <98 vows, lias Veen closed, the education authorities #•< (•liiiiiiK to make it a State-onled setool. I it was one ef t'ho eldest foundations m tho country.

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