A new edition (the sixth) of Dr. Henry van Dyke's
Gospel for an Age of Doubt (6s.) is issued by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton. When it first appeared, three years ago, it was welcomed very heartily by the evangelical world as an admirable and very brightly written defence of the essentials of the Christian faith against the special varieties of doubt and scepticism which are prevalent to-day,—not the less admir- able that it admits, with almost Tennysonian freedom, that "there is more faith in honest doubt than half the creeds." In his preface to this new edition Dr. van Dyke answers a number of the criticisms which the book evoked on its first appearance. It may be doubted, however, whether he will satisfy—whether, indeed, he will not perplex—ordinary orthodox folk by such explanations of his views of the divinity of Christ as : "There is no evidence in His life or in His character of the omniscience, and omnipresence, and omnipotence that would have separated Him from us. His existence among men was simply the human life of God."
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