Doubtless many of Mrs. Glover’s arguments were with herself as she attempted to reconcile the deep assurance of God’s love which she drew from the Scriptures with the evidence of cosmic disarray which she drew from experience. In this period of her life we can catch only hints and flashes of what was happening in her thinking—through the poems she wrote, the books she read—although there is good reason to believe that her deepest nourishment and her deepest questions were drawn always from the Bible. Nothing could answer more directly to her inmost needs than the Psalmist’s eloquent range from simple trust to anguished questioning; nothing could hold out more promise of an ultimate answer than the life which reached from the Sermon on the Mount to the Passion on the Cross.

These were years when throughout the western world a greater agony of questioning over God, faith, and the problem of evil was going on than in any other period of modern history—the years when, according to Nietzsche, God died. It was not just the theologians who wrestled, but the poets and men of science. There was the year, for instance, when in the hills of neighboring Massachusetts Hawthorne  ● ● ●