PREFACE

This little book is only a sketch. Somesuggestions of the kind that is too exclusivelyregarded as practical, I hope, may be found in it.On the whole, its aim is, as from Mt. Nebo, to givea vision of the Promised Land. It does not attemptto minutely describe the roads leading thither. Butthen, probably, it is not given to any one as yetto map out very precisely the journey before us,for we "have not passed this way heretofore." Itis my hope that these ideas which have graduallygrown clear to me may help to increase the numberof those who are willing fearlessly and resolutelyto set out to find a way that may, after all, not proveso hard to find as it has sometimes seemed. Thepossible reproach of idealism is one to whichChristianity itself lies too open to be feared.

I have tried to write impersonally. May I, then,here gratify myself by confessing how dear to meand how strong is the faith that my convictions andmy hopes are shared by multitudes of myfellow-Canadians? I have lived in many parts of Canada.I have tried to understand the Canadian temper.Canada, I believe, has not yet found herself. Thestrain of the war has revealed her weaknesses,--thoughtlessness,irresponsibility, divisive prejudice,worst of all, selfishness, sometimes in the extreme.But it has revealed, too, high devotion, quiet,unostentatious self-sacrifice, rare energy andresourcefulness.

There is in every nation a Jekyll and a Hyde,but not in every nation to-day is the struggle betweenthe two so keen or the possibilities of its settlementso dramatic. The turn that our church life, ourbusiness life, our public life, may take in the nextfew years--which, indeed, I think, it is alreadytaking--may be decisive and glorious. Canada has thefaults of youth but also its energy, its courage, andits idealism. I believe it i

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