A WAYFARER'S FAITH.
A Wayfarer's Faith. By T. Edmund Harvey. (Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. is. 6d. net.)—In A Wayfarer's Faith Mr. Harvey deals with many burning religious questions from the point of view of the Society of Friends. "Institutions and Inspiration," "Priests and Pontiffs," "The
Inner Life of the Church," are three out of the ten subjects dealt with. The whole book breathes a strong, quiet (if we may use the word in an unusual connexion), sensible faith.
The writer faces and admits the fact that in the present day difficulties swarm in the path of the religious man. To-day, Ile says,
"Men turn from orthodoxy in search of something deeper and wider than its mere creeds can give. The works of the old mystics are reissued from the press, and in the byways of literature men are seeking for paths that may lead them to inward peace. It is still twilight time. No prophet's voice is clearly heard calling us towards the full light of the day, but our eyes turn towards the horizon and watch for the signs of dawn."
Man cannot cease to be religious ; "He bath set eternity in their heart." The last page of the chapter entitled "The Answer of Faith " is, we think, the best in the book. Space forbids us to quote it in full, and it would be a pity to mutilate such a passage by short quotation. Its literary beauty is very considerable, and the matter is worthy of its fine expression.
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