Excerpt from Prophets of the Better Hope
The many appreciative readers of Dr. Kerby's articles on the priesthood, as they appeared from time to time during recent years, will rejoice that they are now accessible in book form. Though more or less detached and independent, there runs through them, nevertheless, a colorful thread of unity which amply warrants their republication. Despite our rich literature on the priesthood, illustrating with learning and authority its exacting work, efforts to restate priestly perfection in the practical terms of everyday life will be always welcome. While zeal for an ideal priesthood might lead us at times to find fault with priests in a discouraging way, the priest himself is the first to welcome and to profit by criticism no less kindly in spirit than practical in form.
In these essays Dr. Kerby is both encouraging and helpful, and in a quite new and attractive manner he appeals for a generous confidence which will be given him in a high degree. Throughout these essays, like an undercurrent, runs a sympathetic understanding of the spirit and ideal of the priesthood, also a wholesome appreciation of the quiet spiritual heroism so common among our priests.
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