C S Lewis said of MacDonald's Unspoken Sermons, "My own debt to this book is almost as great as one man can owe to another," and what seems a clear example of this indebtedness can be found in The Screwtape Letters. Screwtape's warning about the kind of faith which relies upon will rather than feelings bears a strong resemblance to another faith-passage from The Child in the Midst. This latter would also appear as the very first entry in Lewis's George MacDonald: An Anthology.