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...anthology is rich in attempts of mortal man to express the inexpressibles of religious experience. One of the best is Convert Gilbert Keith Chesterton's The Convert...
...Catholic Evidence Guild was founded in London in 1918. Its famed British leaders were Frank J. Sheed, Catholic publisher, and his wife, Author Maisie Ward (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, TIME, Oct. 11). First meetings were held in London's catholic Hyde Park, where they continued daily until World War II began. Britain's 500 Guild speakers still average over 100 meetings a week...
Holmes fans do not admit that the man whom G. K. Chesterton called "the only real legend of our time" is just a character in a detective story. They insist that since his last public appearance (1927) in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes has simply retired from his smoke-filled rooms at London's 2216 Baker Street to a bee farm in Sussex. At last week's dinner no whiff of Holmesian ritual was omitted. Holmesian pundits floored one another with complicated I.Q. tests based on the Master's "Sacred Writings," filled the air with...
...least the religious type. I want to be left alone, to feel I'm my own master: but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in." Two books influenced his conversion: Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy; G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man. Of the latter Lewis says: "That book still needs a lot of answering...
...Servile State!" roared Bernard Shaw. "I'll servile him!" "Shaw," quipped Chesterton, "dislikes murder, not so much because it wastes the life of the corpse as because it wastes the time of the murderer...