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N Archbishop of Canterbury Wake: INETEEN hundred years ago the fire of Christianity was suddenly kindled in the world. It blazed in the minds of men. So great was its force that rough men who were fishermen and shepherds as well as the doctors and scholars expressed in brilliant words what they felt. At the end of the Post Apostolic period these writings were complete. Nothing could be added of equal value. Christian writings since then have depended entirely on the first writings. Therefore what was put down at first hand by eyewitnesses and their friends constitutes probably the most precious possession of mankind. Today we do not have the sum total of those writings. Of the surviving writings the Bible contains many. But the Bible does not contain all that survive. There are others. Some of these are called Apocryphal, which is the Greek word for "Lost" or "Rejected" or "Hidden." These additional writings that survive which are authentic-even though they are not in the Canon of the Bible-are here published in beautiful translations in The Lost Books of the Bible. This includes the Apocryphal Scriptures, and much other material, such as the Original Apostles' Creed, the letters of Herod and Pontius Pilate, and the recently discovered portion of the Gospel of Peter. Dr. Frank Crane: "The publication of this book will do good because it takes away the veil of secrecy that has hidden for many years the act of the church in accepting certain Scriptures and rejecting others." 32 full-page illustrations reproductions of paintings and drawings by Greek and Roman artists of the events recorded here. Dr. Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton, in his learned book, "The Apocryphal New Testament," commenting on the writings now contained in The Lost Books of the Bible, says: "They have a great and enduring interest. . As folk-lore and romance they are precious; ... the solution of many a puzzle."; they reveal There are revealed in these vivid pages the sources of many Christian traditions that are not found in the Bible. For example, churches today use as a symbol of Christ the letters I H. You will find the explanation of this mysterious symbol in the words of Barnabas on page 151 of this book. Another familiar expression of today is "rise like a phoenix from its ashes." You will find the original story of the phoenix bird on page 124, told by Clement. Clement was a disciple of Peter. His writing was included in an early canon, but was objected to in the Ninth Century because Clement spoke of worlds beyond the ocean! We call one of the creeds the Apostles' Creed because it is divided into twelve articles said to have been written by each Apostle. On page 20 you will find this explained in full, and the article that each Apostle is said to have written, is given after his name. Then turn the page and you will see this creed as it was originally-before it was changed after 600 A.D. Here also are the origins of countless stories concerning the birth of Mary, her marriage with Joseph, the budding of his rod, the nativity of Jesus, the miracles of his infancy, and his laboring with Joseph at the carpentry trade. In fact, the boyhood of Jesus is related in far more detail in these writings than in the Bible. On Approval That every one may read and be his own judge of this vivid collection of some of the rarest and finest writings in the world we offer to refund your payment if after examination you return the volume. When you inspect it you will see paragraphs that are fired with the marvelous zeal of the first Christians. They saw, they heard, they knew-and then they wrote from the fullness of their hearts. 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It is understood that if I am not entirely satisfied I may return the book within a week and you will cheerfully refund my payment. State Check here for Special gift edition with flexible binding and gold tops and change price to $3.95. Same refund privilege. Published weekly by The Outlook Company, 120 East 16th Street, New York. Copyright, 1926, by The Outlook Company. By subscription $5.00 a year for the United States and Canada. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56. HAROLD T. PULSIFER, President and Managing Editor ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief and Secretary LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT, Contributing Editor THE OUTLOOK, November 10, 1926. Volume 144, Number 11. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Convict Complex A Criminologist Tells Why Men Go Wrong, and What Society Ought to Do About It D By DON C. SEITZ R. FRANK MOORE, Superintendent of the New Jersey Reformatory, at Rahway, since 1909, has recently published at the Reformatory print-shop "A Study of the Character of the Offender, and Society's Duty Toward Him," including besides sundry suggestions for the betterment of the criminal's condition. It reveals some interesting side-lights of convict character. To many criminals crime is a form of entertainment. Describing a choice specimen of this class, Dr. Moore observes: "Crime appealed to him because of the fun there was in it. It was an adventure that thrilled him, and it did not concern him how much any one else suffered, so long as he had the fun that was in it. The love of fun drove him to go as long as the going was good, and even the certainty that he would sooner or later be caught was not sufficient to stop him." In proper apposition, the criminal dislikes work: "Work interferes with his self-indulgence. When he is working he cannot be carousing; he cannot be out all night and be able to work the next day. Work tires him. It takes away his pep. He likes to loaf around, so that he may be on hand when things are doing. Thus laziness becomes one of the habits of his life. The thought of labor as a legitimate means of getting pleasure is not in his thinking. He loves ease, and figures that by stealing he can have enjoyment and still get other pleasures." Dr. Moore finds the bad young men who come under his care in New Jersey to be hero-worshipers. Perusal of the life of Jesse James so fired the blood of one half-baked youth that he took to the road with a shotgun. The farmer whom he undertook to hold up proved the more valorous of the two, and the budding bandit landed in the Reformatory. One unrepentant scamp boasted: "There isn't anything we can't beat. All we have to do is to put on a pair of gloves, and then where are your finger-prints? We are always just one jump ahead of anything they can devise to beat us." This idea of being a superman, bolder and braver than other men, fills them with a conceit that breeds the belief that they can outwit other men. "They delight," says the Doctor, "to pose as braver, bolder, and shrewder than the rest of us, upon whom they look down as weaklings and simpletons, who do not know any better than to be fools enough. to work for our living, and be decent." It is the hero-worship instinct that produces the gang leader. The type is proud of its craftiness and cunning and glories in its ability to deceive: "They count with pride the many times their smooth tongues have gotten them out of trouble" and "look upon themselves as wise guys, exceedingly cunning and able to get away even with murder." The writer thinks that in braggadocio there may be some saving element of character, but "the sly, furtive, sullen, stubborn offender presents an objective most difficult to capture; while the stubbornness that is concealed under "a smile, and by pleasant words," is a "hidden mine" that may explode any time "with serious consequences." NE would hardly expect laughter to "I have never be a concomitant of life behind the bars, but it is. According to Dr. Moore, they laugh much in prison-laugh at the least little thing out of the ordinary, at stupidities in others and at mistakes of the common sort. Mirth is considered a good quality. It does not seem to be such with the convict. Ingratitude is his ruling characteristic. known the real criminal to be thankful for anything that has ever been done for him," is Dr. Moore's conclusion, who finds "in the dark picture of the criminal world there is a type of violator who seems to be entirely without any moral nature at all," who "can no more live straight than one born without a palate can talk straight" and in whom "the instinct to do right seems to be wholly absent." They are "really moral imbeciles whom no treatment that has yet been discovered has ever been able to change." This sort of individual presents "a very difficult entity to deal with and, as a class, a very dangerous problem to society." 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This brings the cost of the human junk heap to $1,000,000,000 for every turnover. Add to this the price of police protection, and the criminal becomes a very expensive form of waste. DR. MOORE does not regard the prison as a place for remaking men. It only preserves society from the presence of the evil-doer for a term. If more is to be done, society must do it itself. The prison must always turn out damaged goods. That some repent and are saved is true, but the greater number continue unregenerate and unreformed. To a poor form of intellect the early life of most criminals has added to it ill-usage at home. Brutal treatment of children is still all too prevalent among our people. They are beaten and scolded into becoming liars and starved into thievery in all too many low-grade families. Here is where society can and must do the work of redemption if it wishes to curtail the output of criminals. But few convicts come from early decent surroundings. Those that fall from aloft are very scarce. The mass comes from the disregarded, common herd. Dr. Moore does not minimize the difficulties in the paths of removing the causes of crime, plus trying to reform the criminal. "It must be remembered," he urges, "that these lives have become what they are after a lifetime of evil habit has woven itself into a cable that cannot be broken all at once, even though the criminal and citizen together are at one in an honest effort to break it. But no matter what the results, the citizen who undertakes this work must never be discouraged. What is needed is men who are not shaken of their purpose, no matter how much they may seem to fail, who will do their duty because it is their duty; who look for results and are glad if they come, but will not stop even if they do not appear." In prison-reform planning Dr. Moore thinks the classification of the criminal will play a most important part. The selective system is almost disregarded, with the result that the lowest minds are allowed to dominate the standards of ruling convicts, moral simpletons coming under the same rules that govern hardened sinners. To bring about the desired change "co-operation and not criticism" must be employed. "Laws must be made, money must be spent, taxpayers must be enlightened, science must be enlisted, judges must co-operate." In writing to the above advertiser please mention The Outlook |