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Dear Charles & Kack.

 I just got home from my trip to Purdue University - the same story.
 There is, just now, a curious sort of clinging, as though they were

determined to find God in you.

 This is a big scientific school - 4000 young engineers. In a curious

way they too have suddenly lost all faith in our competitive, individualistic civilization. They are pretty naive - half wanting, half hoping you have - hidden about your person - the key to the house of God.

 I talked, largely off hand - about people - small people workers etc.

seen? - told stories. They laughed and listened.

 I told the story of the old woman who, when I built my grand house said -

"we like to have you here but before you came we were all poor together.

 Then I told the story of John's saying to me - about the grand house -

that it set us up above people.