* * * * To know how to popularise Christianity—still
more, how to popularise it without over-popularising it—is a perpetual problem. There are always different tastes to be appealed to. Many people, for example, approve strongly of Dorothy Sayers' The Man Born to be King. Many, on the other hand, do not. I am among the latter, but probably we are a minority. The British Missionary Societies, jointly, are producing this week at Is. a very attractive 32-page magazine-type publication called Here is the News, telling effectively, through picture as much as print, what the missionary societies have done, and are doing, throughout the world. One set of portraits, representing native Christians of different racial types, is particularly impressive. On the other hand. I am not sure whether such a paragraph as " Christianity is the one o'clock news. That is what suffered under Pontius Pilate' means. Pilate was a local news-item. His name was on a regional wave-length " is impressive at all. I wish Here is the News well, and hope it will have a wide sale. But I am afraid it may find the going rather hard, for Picture Post and Everybody's, on which the new publication is obviously modelled, can be bought for a quarter or a third of the price.
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