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...Senator Couzens is recovered, reanimated with the lust of life and investigation. Mr. Couzens and the two Democratic members of the Com- mittee, Senators King of Utah and Jones of New Mexico, were eager to reopen the inquiry...
...severe in his condemnation of the sins of the Anglican Church. He finds its cowardice colossal-for it has attacked drunkenness and sexual immorality, but has, like a cur, kept safely away from dangerous enemies such as the greed of Mammon and the lust of Mars. Nevertheless, he contends that the Anglican Church (like the Eastern Orthodox) is apostolic, whereas the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Churches (Baptist, Presbyterian, etc.) have departed so far from the faith that they are not apostolic. He sees some prospect for union with the Eastern Churches, but none with the others. Finally...
Concluding, the author says that Stinnes could not realize that "flexibility of mind is not weakness; that the'"strongest also can be the most polite, and that lust for unbounded international commercial power is irreconcilable with nationalistic politics...
Then comes the War, and in that searing horror he at last sees Truth, flaming, glorious, for the instant, in the awakened consciousness of the world. Yet even there, coexistent with the glory, are all the baser human instincts rearing themselves: treachery, greed, lust for power...
...Expressed belief "in the gospel of the Son of God as our one hope of deliverance from the greed, lust and anarchy with which a resurgent paganism threatens to engulf civilization...