aft ae ae tee book is a very exhatis~ tive examination of the art of prayer.
is written by a trained scientist, Jond in the solentist's way it" takes nothing for granted that can be investigated, "any more. than "the scientist would in his: own sphere As Mr, Bruce says:
This Is the first novel of this young, author since "Dusk at the Grove," which won the fourth "Atlant novel competition in 1934.
Rogers, himself a teacher of French one of America's leading midwestern universities, evidently knows his smaller college' communities as well and has given an incisive picture Of life in these circles. The Lucifer of the story is Hugh Trowbridge, a young English teacher in a small college where his father's, superior position "and his mother's social Neadership make his path easy.
Vaguely dissatisfied, despite his youth, ood looks and generat Popularity, the hero muses at the Outset of the book on the problems of human existence and of his own reasonable "a "eonslstont "universe. there ig a consistent. mind, Why is prayer so very often a holflive thing? The author suggests to students that, they apply to. their lsclentife studies a mental development which is comparable to their and which is the result of inten= sive. training, while that which, they fapply to prayer is still at the stage Jwhich one would expect (find: in, child of ten, It fs vain to hope th ambitions in particular: ipplly, together, -when iis highly "doveloyed. Some' might wna Tudlmentary and the other
fake issue with Mr. Bruce in regard prayers for the dead and through the Saints, but os the Heh hwa ye chooght, essential Iie "ifgnest interest ana passion. omitted the views expressed would have been to have ruined the book a iL is essentially, and for that redizon Jmost forceful, written from the writer's personal experience, One feels that one would like Mr. Bruce Gauge for Success "gh lid bean sucesso cus "Sua rcpt Sas evan ule earn alate "state "opis Sri alt ear wh Mtny Sanhment, St "ere ey, yeh could not change the fact that you. to have written more on the. Communion Service, but he is necessarily restricted by the size of the book. Whilst prayer is supernatural, one helped very greatly by. reading this book to appreciate the "sweet reasonableness" of prayer made. by reasonable beings to their reasonable yet Divine Father. The book 1s also Published in Chinese by the Associated Press E21
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