BOOK REVIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOOK REVIEWS.

Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton< have issued in paper and in cloth covers, a cheap reprint of Mr. C._ E. Andrews' "What I Owe to Christ." In this intimate autobiography, a kind of modern f 'Grace Abounding," the writer reveals himself as a man of sensitive and impressionable nature, and a mystic. He writes with winning frankness and simplicity, and, although one may not agree with all his views and moralisings, one lays down the book with the feeding that he has been listening to the story of a truly Christian man full of the milk of human kindness. "Evolution and Redemption," published by Messrs. Williams and Norgate, is a, thoughtful and original contribution by another Christian man in a different walk of life, though with a not altogether different outlook. Dr. H. P. Kewsholme is a prominent medical authority, and social worker and writes with people in mind who -are engrossed in the material and physical side of social welfare, are imbued with a materialistic view of evolution, and are . "so absorbed in the present life as to take no thought of its relation to a future one." He seeks to show that their view of life and evolution "runs contrary to common-sense knowledge of the working of our minds and bodies," and to impress on readers the responsibility of the individual in evolution, as well as the intimate part God playe in evolution. It is an interesting'and most suggestive book, with some things in it that are . novel,. and ; that may strike some people as fanciful. It covers a wide field, working up to the Gospels and the Saviour Rescuer, Dr. Newsholme calls Him. He makes suggestive and helpful comments in this part of the book on such subjects as revelation, predestination, the incarnation and the resurrection of Christ, on the barren fig tree and or the naturalness of the discrepancies about our Lord's trial, crucifixion and resurrection.