13 OCTOBER 1928, Page 21

There are men, says Cardinal Nicholas of Cuss (The Vision

of God, translated from the Latin by Miss Emma Salter, Dent, 5s.), who have the skill to withdraw the life-giving spirit from their body and appear dead and without feeling. The quickening power remains quiescent. Even so, the Spirit of God remains in each of us, waiting for the releasing Word, the act of faith that shall make us truly live. Miss Evelyn Underhill contributes an interesting preface to this beautiful little book, pointing out that these " are not the agreeable meditations of a leisured piety ; but the support of a man weighed down with responsibility, whose varied and exacting duties were performed under the ' gaze of God ' of which he writes." They will strike an answering chord in many minds.

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