Notes

In Norwich, Cathedral town of England, Canon Hay Aitkin preached his 22,000th sermon. John Wesley holds the record, 27,000. Aitkin, once aide-de-camp to Dwight L. Moody, has preached in the U. S. He never uses manuscript.

G. Stanley Hall, veteran psychologist, revered author of Adolescence, has come out with a monumental book entitled Jesus in the Light of Psychology* The book denies traditional Christianity. William James tended to reconcile the old faith and psychology. Mr. Hall does not.

Dr. John Roach Straton of Manhattan, got his Board of Trustees to consider the erection of a new church seating 5,000 people, surmounted by a 20-story hotel for "good people," where "the painted woman and the lounge lizard" will not "reign supreme." The building, to cost $5,000,000, will be on the site of the present church, West 57th street, of which the land value is $1,500,000. "Mizpah House" is the likely name.

Rev. Charles Francis Potter, Unitarian opponent-in-debate of Baptist Dr. Straton, contemplates a similar enterprise. He spurned Dr. Straton's offer to make him manager of Mizpah House.

*Appleton ($7.50).