The presence of Father Nicholai Velimirovic in England during the last
few months has brought to the many circles with which he has been in
touch a new message and appeal enforced by a personality evoking an
appreciation which glows more warmly the better he is known. But this
little book is more than the revelation of a personality. It will be to
many people the introduction to a new range of interest and of thought.
He would be a bold man who would endeavour at present to limit or even
to define what may be the place which the Serbia of coming years may
hold in Eastern Europe as a link between peoples who have been widely
sundered and between forces both religious and secular which for their
right understanding have needed an interpreter. Of recent days the
sculpture and the literature of Serbia have been brought to our doors,
and England's admiration for both has drawn the two countries more
closely together in a common struggle for the ideals to which that art
and literature have sought to give expression. It is not, I think,
untrue to say that to the average English home this unveiling of Serbia
has been an altogether new experience. Father Nicholai's book will help
to give to the revelation a lasting place in their minds, their hopes
and their prayers.