A CALL TO THE WORLD

Evening Post, Volume 97, Issue 97, 21 October 1933, Page 17

A CALL TO THE WORLD

The author of "One Tkiiig I Kndw," A. J. Russell, who a}sa wrote "For Sinners Only," is an uncommon mixture of journalist and evangelist. He writes ardently of Jiirrtself, both as journalist and religionist; the two are so iiiter"vfWeh! iti'-faet, that it is difficult to say wnere 6tie stops aitd the other* begins. A ;graphje reminiscence df Patrick Mahon, the Crumbles murdefeT, which might havo been journalism*, and Nothing: MoreV jbe'ciome's & Spiritual experience when the'author describes receiving 'a. warning from the supernatural <Soh<3erniiig Mahon's <!rinie about the time he (Sommitted th 6 murder. Conversely, a purely spiritual experience becomes journalism in Mr. Russell's'style'.of riarriting ii dentally, this duality enables him to present vivid studies of the Bishop of London, Gipsy Smith, Father Woodlock, Mr., C. F. Andrews, and Mr. Hugh fi<idwdo"d; a' feildiv Fleet Street religionist. ' * Our need,'' says Mr. Jjussell, £ drthrightly, "is'not for a new" dehomirlatidn, but a new" detdrriiination! Luiiaitics never unite. Seeing that' our country is crowded with half^inpty churches^-gifts to God itt widows' itiites—a new sect or a new denomination would be For Lunatics Only."