Dr. Streeter was in many ways the most considerable figure
in this country—he was a very considerable figure indeed —to identify himself with the Oxford Group, and Dr. Buchman and his followers are justified in making the most of it. Their claim that the Group turned a theologian into an evangelist is at least half valid. But not much more than half, for the Principal of Queen's did not leave evangelism, of his own effective kind, to the last three or four years of his life. His regular attendance at Student Christian Movement conferences, and the parties of undergraduates he used to take year after year to Old Jordan Hostel are proof enough of that. But a theologian, of course, he essentially was, and one whose work will remain historic in the evolution of religious thought in this country. Foundations marks an epoch no less than Essays and Reviews or Lux Mundi, and it and the similar volumes that came later will keep Streeter's name as familiar to a wide circle of general readers as his greatest work, The Four Gospels, will be to generations of Biblical scholars.
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