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Reporters who were present at the arrival in Manhattan of Agnes Maude Royden, famed English evangelist, head of the London Guildhouse, were prepared to find a large woman with little conversation and a big smile. They found instead a small, mercurial, unbeautified, talkative lady, leaning on a chestnut stick. She answered their questions readily and with wit. The reporters then told Agnes Maude Royden that her prospective lectures in Boston and Chicago (sponsored by the Methodist Woman's Home Missionary Society) had been canceled because of rumors that she smoked cigarets and that she also favored companionate marriage...
...this, Agnes Maude Royden made a few brisk remarks: "Really," she said, "I don't think God has the time or the inclination to worry much about whether I smoke a cigaret or not. ... I am opposed to companionate marriage ... to any thing except permanent monogamy. . . . When a marriage has failed, divorce is the only solution." On top of this she rapidly repeated to her somewhat startled informants an apt parable to illustrate her point that religious bodies should not concern themselves with trifles. Then, tapping her chestnut stick at every step, she moved away...
...Miss Royden went on to say that in every period of history there has been a cry that religion would die. "Look at the latter part of the last century, the period of oncoming science, yet that science which then seemed to make man insignificant biologically is now what makes him almost...
...Water, fire, and oil used to be our terrors, now they have become our servants. Even the thunderstorm is being used." Miss Royden then said that man has become a conquering spirit. He will not adapt himself to the world but will govern it. "A change has come, not into the universe or humanity; what has altered is the contact which is being established between the genius of man and the universe...
...Miss Royden then explained that according to modern psychologists all man's reactions were subject to cause and effect "as much as the path of the start or the way of the sun. Of course a terrible fear creeps over the sensitive man. But we must recognize that there are spiritual laws and we must not ignore or repress them...