Booklist 17:48 N ’20
“He has collected a great mass of facts, and his interpretation of those facts, while evidencing a vigorous mind, is but the judgment of a human being; and there will be no lack of dissent on the part of readers.” F. W. C.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 800w
“The author has drawn heavily upon writers of his own way of thinking. Nowhere is there evidence of any scientific discernment.”
− Cath World 111:258 My ’20 500w
“The author tells us that this book contains fifty years’ study of religion but there is not the slightest suspicion in it of an old man’s conservatism. Few books about religion are more radical, more fearless, more resolutely faced toward the future than this one.” A. W. Vernon
+ Nation 112:187 F 2 ’21 780w R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 60w
COOKE, RICHARD JOSEPH, bp.[[2]] Church and world peace. *$1 Abingdon press 261
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“After discussing the demand for a League of nations and answering the question whether or not such a league is possible, and after stating the political difficulties in the way of such a league, the author concludes that the league will need all the spiritual power of the church to make it effective. He says that ‘while the League of nations may do much to prevent war, it cannot eradicate the desire for war. It would seem, therefore, absolutely essential that the physical power of the League shall be supplemented by a spiritual power, some mighty generating influence which, by its appeal to the souls of man, shall be able to cool super-heated passions, and for treasured wrong substitute desire for justice and not revenge, for peace and not war.’ There must then be a Christian league, a league of Christendom supplementing the political League of nations.”—Boston Transcript