December 15, 1953

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Christianity~ Revival or Decline?

Over most of the world, organized Christianity is ebbing. Only in the Americas can it be said to be holding its own. Is the Christian faith dying too? Or is a new concept of Jesus' teachings replacing it? Here, as Christmas approaches, is a searching study of the most important question of our time By FRED BODSWORTH26 min

AN EXCURSION INTO CANADA WITH Charles Dickens

Here’s good Yuletide reading: the warm and lively story of a trip made to this country by the author of A Christmas Carol. For a picture of Canada a century ago—and a key to why much of it appalled Dickens — curl up with this By JAMES BANNERMAN22 min

A MACLEAN'S NOVEL AWARD

the alien CHAPTER SEVEN Was Victoria To Blame?

In the gathering darkness Carlyle fetched Victoria home from the Christmas dance. But they could not find words to ease the sharp tension between them By W. O. MITCHELL16 min

London Letter

As a soldier in the first war I went to Drury Lane where Beecham was putting on a season of opera in English, but it was not until 1920 when I had returned to England that we first met. Because he agreed or disagreed with something I had written he asked me to lunch in which he did all the talking —which was as it should be.

The TWINS of Lucky Stricke

From Klondike memories half a century old comes a new Christmas ballad which could have been written only by the creator of Dangerous Dan McGrew By ROBERT W. SERVICE, Robert W. Service3 min

Maclean’s Movies

ARROWHEAD: Cavalry vs. Injuns again, with a fine piling-up of stealth and tension and violence in a climactic death-duel between redskin Jack Palance and paleface Charlton Heston. Earlier, though, there’s too much dull talk and Heavy Drahma. By CLYDE GILMOUR3 min

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