RELIGION

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26319, 13 January 1951, Page 3

RELIGION

(Reviewed by

L.G.W.)

The Reward of Faith. By Elizabeth Goudge. Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd. 191 pp. Admirers of Miss Goudge’s charmuig stories will be glad to have this volume of collected religious tales, rive have appeared before, but the “Canticle of the Sun,” “The Reward of raith,” and “The Legend of the First Christmas Tree” were written for this volume. “The Canticle” reproduces a Franciscan legend and brings the reader into the exhilarating atmosphere of Assisi. “The Reward” is a romance of the French Alps. Keuben, the shepherd, presented the first Christmas tree to the Saviour on the morning of the Nativity. Of the other tales in the book, one is “The Three Grey Men” in the days of Charles I; a second the story of the zealot, Jacob, who was crucified in the days of Christ's infancy; a third is "The Icon in the Wall.” a tale of Karelian peasant life;. the fourth is the legend of the Wke Men at the well of the Star; the last? strangely called “The Waters of Babylon.” is a romance about the flight of Joseph and Mary into Egypt. The Gc-.d News By T. Howard Somerve’l. Hodder and Stoughton. 180 F 3. The author describes this book as written “for anyone, Christian or ?gncstic. who feels the need of knowing the real, historic Christ as friend «n>ws friend.” In his preface, he describes this friendship as the most •nrortant need in the world to-day, and one that can best be established by the study of the earliest and most authentic accounts of Our Lord’s earthly life. With this end in view, he has taken certain passages in the gospels, as far as possible in chronological order, and written a clear and simple commentary on each. The text is that of Dr. Moffatt’s translation. Christian teachers will find this a very Useful book to plaoe in the hands of those who wish for elementary instrucin the devotional study of the scriptures. The Tree of Judea. By Charles Tobin. The Lothian Publishing Pty. Ltd. « pp. In this little booklet, we have a * lr nple and affecting tale of the tree taom which the Cross of Christ was made.