Welsh Journals

But Mr. Davies himself has set forth this criterion of the truth and the value of a doctrine, and I repudiate it absolutely. Your correspondent has betrayed himself, for evidently the value of a message to him is in the amount of approbation it receives. A preacher after all is not a playwright nor an actor, and some distinction ought to be granted between serving God and serving the gods." After making this clumsy sword-thrust, he proceeds with a fond innocence to deal with points! He comes to the end even of his letter with the point of view untouched, and the point of view of course is the whole matter. But no, Mr. Davies deals with points, and, behold writes about relevancy and about being intoxicated with phrases. Then he gives the greater part of his letter to deal with what he has chosen to mark as irrelevant! This is hardly reasonable. Let us hope he does it intuitively, for relevance after all is only a capacity to see fairly deep. I have just been watching a hen's devotion to a china egg. It is evidently relevant to her. It wc uld be to a philosopher also, but in another way. I think Mr. Davies has felt intuitively that in his remarks about relevance he is acting the hen rather than the philosopher. Let me say again that there is one emphasis, for there is a Primary Relationship, and the Church, the real Church, can never be the quack that treats symptoms." It will always go for the disease which is sin. It will not make the far country habitable, it will not even seek to do so, for that is wasting time. It will tell the Prodigal to go home and to go home is "cosmic adjustment." SOME CHEAP REPRINTS FOR THE TIMES The following is a perfectly randum selection of cheap reprints that may be of value to our readers at the present time. It should serve to answer several enquiries that we have received. THE PEOPLE'S BOOKS. T. G. & E. C. JACK. 6d. Bismark and the Origin of the German Empire F. M. Powicke Aviation Sidney F. Walker Friedrich Nietzsche M. A. Mugge Wellington and Waterloo Major G. W. Redway Goethe C. H. Herford Schopenhaur Margrieta Beer Eucken A. T. Jones EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY. 1/- The Idiot Dostoieffslcy Crime and Punishment Dostoieffsky Prison Life in Siberia Dostoieffsky Letters from the Underworld Dostoieffsky Anna Karenina Tolstoi Childhood, Boyhood and Youth. ToUtoi WarandPeace Toisto Virgin Soil Turgenieff Liza Turgenien Literary and Historical Map of Europe HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. I/- The French Revolution Hilaire Belloc History of War and Peace G. H. Perris Landmarks in French Literature G. L. Strachey Warfare in England Herbert Fisher The Literature of Germany J.G.Robertson The Navy and Sea Power David Hannay Germany of To-day Chas. Tower NELSON'S 2/- NON-FICTION. The Anglo-German Problem C.Sarolea The Mainsprings of Russia Maunee Baring We have had too much Humanism, too much Naturalism, too much Comptoanism-i. it necessary to explain these terms for cosmic adjustment is merely current coin in the world of mind. the great psychologist of Harvard speaks of Religion cosmic patriotism," and has it ever been better termed ? We have had too much of the Religion of Humanity which is the great blasphemy, and too little of the God-ward oblation of Christ, which establishes his unicity and marks Him off from Buddha even, and especially from self-appointed social reformers. This God-ward oblation as I said in my first letter. implies and contains all the rest. while the naturalistic attitude contains nothing. Germany is an instance. Was there ever a country more progressive, more devoted to developement and intellect, more insistent upon research, science. social reform ? And yet what was this world-state A tumour on the face of the earth, and the tumour has burst and disseminated its effluvia and put humanity back hundreds of years. And yet while we looked on upon the development of all this-the demonic in the race, we were talking of microbes, and housing and such things. The reader knows in his heart that it is a bigger question. The mere shuffling of circumstances will not effect it. A new suit to the leper that is all. I am glad to stand for something else, the hoary doctrine of a twentieth century mistic will yet do it, given the chance. Yours, etc., Peter H. Griffiths. NELSON'S I/- FRENCH WORKS. Napoleon intime Arthur livy Lc Si«5ge de Paris Snrcey Une Nichee de Gcntilshommcs Iourg^nicff Fumce Iourg^nicff Le Faux Coupon Tolstoi Le Pére Serge Tolstoi L' Avenemcnt de Bonaparte. Vandal Le Grande Illusion Norman Angell Servitude et Grandeur Militaires Alfred de Vigny La Revolution Franchise Francois- Augustc-Marie Mignet NELSON'S 7d. LIBRARY. The Riddle of the Sand. Erskine Childcrs The Girondin Hilaire belloc NELSON'S 1/- LIBRARY. The Great Boer War A. Conan Doyle With Kitchener to Khartum G. W. Stevens The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc Life of Danton Hilaire Belloc Life of Tolstoy Charles Lardlcy What I saw in Russia Maurice Baring Famous Modern Battles Attcridge CAMBRIDGE MANUALS. 1/- Aerial locomotion Harper & Ferguson The modem warship Attwood METHUEN'S 1/- SERIES. Sevastopol Tolstoi