The Inner Witness within our critical generation leads it to feel, often inarticulately, that this is not the answer to its soul's demands. No doubt many churches, many Quaker Meetings, are visited and too hastily dismissed by over-critical, impatient persons. No doubt many critics are largely moved by pride of intellect, and are not yet humbled sufficiently to discover their soul's good in lowly form. It is just this Inner Witness which has made men critical of half-hearted religions to which we can appeal. Here is a real point of entrance.
Some criticism is largely rooted in intellectual snobbery, some criticisms are rationalizations.
But, after discount is made of all these evasions, there is a core of sincerity in all men, a yearning for the Real, a deep-set hunger for the true Homeland of the soul. They are not sentimental, ostentatious seekers, but baffled, confused, hard-headed, discouraged seekers, yet seekers nonetheless. Some of them explain that they have grown up in post-war days, and belong to the Lost Generation. But they seek, and criticize, and reject because they have felt the touchstone of Reality within themselves. Already the Hound of Heaven has been baying on their track.