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THE ATHENAEUM 159 CURRENT NOTES By John W. Lawlah and T. Harvey Burris. UP FROM METHODISM—This article which appeared lately in a well known magazine, is a painting of the conditions which actually exist among people who yet cling to the old ideas which have been practiced by supersitious people for a number of decades. The fact that one person in a family is a bishop is no argument whatever that all members should be devout and that all members should become preachers. The writer says: “I had to call the preacher brother; he patted me on the back and told me) how much God loved little boys and girls, and that little boys and girls should not have a good time; they “rushed” me into the church, and spoke so emotionally about God that I could almost see fire and brimstone dancing before me; they pulled me up off of the mourner’s bench and; told me I had it; they carried me through so many formalities that I did not know where devoutness and religion stopped and life as a man began; and yet wit!; all these menacing torments and impositions I could not see what I had.” The above extract is declared by the author to be taken from his actual life. These facts point out to us clearly the need for' a change in the existing order so that any confession made will be the real inner workings of the man. The majority of the people “rushed in” are as a rule infidels, hardened in the error of their ways, suspicious and hostile, and jealously hardening their hearts against the voice of the true God, even while their souls hover over the edge of the! everlast ing abyss. Such reported facts should be a stimulus to all thinking men and women, and should create in them a desire to see each boy and girl confess only when he believes that he is willing of his own accord to take up the life of a Christian. Let's see to it that no more girls and boys are “rushed into” the church. FRATERNITIES AND SORORITES—Any person who read the February issue of Opportunity could not help but stop and; carefully review the fact concerning Fraternities and Sororities. It is a gener ally conceded fact that the organizations play a very important part in the life of the Universities and the life of the country. A lot of people look with scorn at Fraternities either because the Fraternities will not allow them to participate or because they think; of Fraterni ties and Sororities as a band of frenzied and moronic human beings, organized to put over some clannish program, excluding outsiders, and organized to have a good time. The people who think of Fratern ities and Sororities as either of the following had better read Op portunity or talk with members of these organizations and become enlightened. Although there were some social affairs at the conventions of the various organizations on last December, the serious problems con-