Cheerfulness Breaks in Twice?

Let us not lament intemperately. “All the ministers are radicals nowadays,” some folk tell me. “All the political scientists are collectivists. And all the students are crazy.” Although your servant is too well aware of the evidence that leads to such conclusions, nevertheless we are not lost. Voices of faith and right reason are being heard—and will be heard increasingly, I think, for nature does not abide the vacuum of nihilism.

In a time when the churches are much afflicted by fad and foible, it is heartening to turn to the Christian scholarship of Mr. MacDonald. Like Bernard Id- dings Bell, like T. S. Eliot, he does not labor under the illusion that God is dead. Mr. MacDonald unhesitatingly reaffirms that the service of God is perfect freedom. Without such service, indeed, freedom of no sort is possible in this world. His is the understanding of Eliot: “If you will not have God—and remember, He is a jealous God—then you should pay your respects to Hitler or to Stalin.”