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The sincere expression of any religious conviction is entitled to respect. Whatever contrary faith the reader may hold in regard to any of the spiritual matters treated in this book he cannot withhold his respect for the author's passionate sincerity. This makes criticism difficult task. For fo question any of the beliefs set forth means the enunkiating of contrary or other convictions on the same matters. Possibly there is no particular reason why a review should not form part of a religious controversy. But one feels nevertheless, that it is no small thing to criticize a, man's faith, especially when he is not present to defend it or explain obscure or, apparently contradictory parts' of it. The dogmatic attitude of a review is apt to become aggravated, not to say offensive, in the case of a religious book. And offence is not consonants with the respect to which such a book as this one is entitled. It seems, therefore, necessary to state at the outset, as a kind of apologia, that the casual reviewer of books makes no claim, either on his own account or his paperys, to any authority. The ipso chat tone unavoidable in a-short article must be taken merely as the expression} of the opinion of the man in the street as to the effect the book should have upon the average inquiring mind.
With this much allowed it may be permitted to say that these "Narratives of a Recent Movement in the Spirit of Personal Religion''s do not afford a satisfactory solution of the problems peculiar to the present interval of spiritual evolution. The spiritual unrest of to-day is not a post-war reaction. The present inquiries of the
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