Where have all the heroes gone? Hero-

ines? Role models? Is our age unusually

short of inspiration?

While we are told that ours is an es-

pecially amoral, hedonistic, godless,

selfish time, history reveals that such

wails of condemnation have gone up

before. Perhaps goodness, moral vi-

sion, and strength of purpose and will

are a bit difficult to catch out in the

open these days, but men and women

have always sought ways to shape their

lives and measure their behavior. This

engrossir]g book presents fascinating

p~ ofiles of twenty men and women

whose lives stand as testimonials to that

enduring effort and act as effective

inspiration to contemporary readers--

"Companions Along the Way."

These Companions are an oddly as-

sorted lot. They do not espouse any one

special "way." They neither adhere to

a uniform doctrine, nor are they mem-

bers of any one faith. Some in essence,

"lost" their faith, some found it; one of

them was a pagan. Many of these names

readers will already know, but you may

not know them from the author s per-

spective, which focuses on the moral,

spiritual and personally transforming

power coursing through their lives.

And Paul Wilkes, an extremely gifted

writer, makes each of the Companions

human and accessible.