of our time. Yet as a matter of fact it will ultimately make religious life impossible; certainly it will make impossible anything that can be called faith. It is really impossible to trust a being that is conceived of merely as the whole of which we are parts; in order to trust God one must think of God as a transcendent, living Person. It is true that pantheists represent their view as bringing God near to man. “We will have nothing to do,” they say in effect, “with the far-off God of the creeds