et’s Not Talk

bout Sin

[AN’S terrible need, according to author Taylor Caldwell, is for neone to listen to him not as a itient” but as a human soul. In her ft 1 The Man Who Listens she strates her point in a series of sen essays in self-deception.

Uthough somewhat contrived, 5e modern parables show what peration and spiritual aridity can lit when fundamental faith is lost allowed to wither. )ne wry story concerns the “social nder” of an American clergyman. ;eems he embarrassed everyone in ;olf club locker room by asking n what they had done that day God! imong the deep freeze and hi fi it was unpardonable to speak of 1 except in church—and then only passing. he clergyman, pouring out his y to the man who listens in a -denominational shrine, adds no one, not even churchmen, ik of sin these days. In today’s on there is no “sin” . . . it’s a ter of environment, of condition of lack of opportunity, of bad sing, of not being able to adjust he “peer” group. Man has rights claims but no duties any more, even to God. fiiat Taylor Caldwell wants man 10, is look “inward” at his own his own soul, and the shock of •gnition that he has one will save from himself before it is too -AF HE MAN WHO LISTENS. Published Collins. 20/-.)