A collection of Dr. Baeck’s essays would be very helpful and encouraging in the troubles which lie heavy on Jews in these days. For these seven essays, each in its way, express the undying hope of Israel, the unshakeable faith in its future, the sure trust that it will survive all shocks of calamity, and will in the end complete its task as God’s witness to the world, by his continual guidance and help. That has been the significance of Judaism throughout its long history; and this book, appearing as it now does after the most terrible suffering that even Jewry has known, is a reassertion of the undying faith of Israel, flung out in the face of the world. That is what this book really means, as the present reviewer understands it, and Dr. Baeck and the publishers may divide between them the honor of a notable service done for the cause which is dear to them.