BOOK REVIEW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 234, 3 October 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOOK REVIEW.

"GOD AND THE UNIVERSE.''. This is a Ettle book of .200. pagesgjtibEshed by John Lane, the Bodley Head, LrSted 7 It is a symposium, Anriican, Catholic and Free Church S of view, of the Christian position Regarding the newest theories the system of created Mr J Lewis May,-the biographer of, Cardinal Newman, edits the book,:, and opens it with a suggestive and helpful introduction. The symposium is composed ot three essays, the essayists being the Rev. S. C. Carpenter, Master of •_ the Temple, London; Father D/Arcy, of-.Cam-pion Hall, Oxford; and Professor Lee Woolf, of London. Mr. Carpenter writes, as if he'were talking to us.at his own fireside, and the writing is as clever as it is engaging. He makes use- oi a good deal of banter iii his allusions and references to the "new uwverse, reminding us at times of Mr. Chesterton, and touches in more impressive manner on graver themes, such as the moral ar<mment for God and the doctrine of the Trinity. Father D'Arcy deals With Christianity and the modern mind, and Professor Lee Woolf with the experimental approach, to religion. Their contributions, given in more sober vein, are models of dialectic. It will be obvious to all who read the essays that the essayists are what Mr. May calls them, men learned in - theology and skilled in religious apologetics. From "beginning to end "God and the Universe" is a volume that holds the attention of the reader. It is'essentially a book for the man in the street. Its appeals are likely to affect different readers in different ways, but no thoughtful person can read it without wanting to read it arain, and, if he is open-minded, without having his confidence in the Christian faith strengthened.

* Illustrating, in terma Of to-day, St. Paul's counsel to redeem or buy up the moments, a writer in the American "Christian Register" gives, as an example of one who made a practice of acting on the counsel, Sir Robert Hart, who, for xoany year«, governed the Chinese Custom;* eervicc. Hia wife wa« apt to keep Mm waiting for afternoon tea, there* iotc he developed the habit of keeping a book wfcero he could dip into it until U». Appeared. Sometime* he had only a, mimU or U'O. Sometime* the delay y/(tr, longer. But he read what he could, and by ihm buying UP % h , c W8 & bl* to rwA li/mcr, DunUi, Milton 8 "Paradte* l/M *nA VwnAhm ilegfttoed, €m»m'* "DwWm and U&W «no «ther vtAnmiek.