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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 12 September 1912, Page 2

Mr. Harold Bogbie, in his latest book, “The Ordinary Mind, the Extraordinary Thing,” says that in the present time the pressure of. the soul has increased among mankind. “Stand at the corner of London Bridge or Blackfriars Bridge, or in the streets of Oldham, when the workers arc going home,” writes Mr. Beghie. “Look in their faces. It is not poverty or coarseness or vulgarity or wickedness which appals you. . . hut hardnes and absence of joy. Can a people so hard and dispirited, so joyless and divided, so little conscious either;of immortality or brotherhood, support the strain of its own godless materialism ? Can they ever work out those high and splendid destinies of Empire for widen enthusiasm and faith are the first essentials? It is my hope that those of my readers who are either in despair about the future or careless as to the fate of humanity may rorilisc that there exists among the multitudes of their fellow-creatures a great hope and a great call to personal service in th.ib ‘pressure ol the soul’ and to guide which is one of the first duties of those who very really and very earnestly, have their affiance in Christ. Everywhere, when we penetrate beneath the surface of society, there is this disquiet of the spirit, this pressure of the soul, this dissatisfaction with earthly things, this hunger after satisfaction and peace.” A neighbourly feeling prompts me to ho sociable at times, and to extend hospitality to one’s friends when they call. There’s nothing you can offer that will be more appreciated than a little “Perfection” Whisky. x