and abhorrent in their obvious and bodily 

 aspects, are still but superficial things if we 

 think of them as related chiefly to the body. 

 For the life is more than the meat even as the 

 body itself is more than the raiment it puts on. 

 We are often told that a starving body hinders 

 and handicaps the soul. That may be true, and 

 yet a starving soul is much more tragic than a 

 starving body, and a starving soul is not apt to 

 be overanxious about meat. The relief of bod- 

 ily necessity, however much it presses as a duty 

 on every Christian conscience, is by no means 

 a sure method for the soul's relief. Bodily 

 comfort, even more surely than bodily distress, 

 dulls and deadens spiritual need. In the midst 

 of our generous haste to feed and warm and 

 heal we need to keep the balance true, and to 

 preserve the proportion of our faith. We need 

 to be reminded that man does not and cannot 

 live by bread alone, and that social service, to 

 be Christian, must minister to so as to satisfy 

 man's spiritual hunger. This book will help us 

 at this point. 



