the race and the glory of those ideals for which they died?

No one can escape the conflict with evil. No one can be sure that he will not suffer and die in that conflict. The most one can do is

to forever refuse to surrender.

The theory of the constant advancement of the race being the Good tendency or power, involves the necessity for the simultaneous and spontaneous birth, in every being born, of an Ideal.

The Ideal, thus incarnated, seems an imperishable picture, or image, of an advancement not yet realized.

This Ideal is the soul. Now, if a race should be born without that Ideal, all progress would cease and the race become "fixed," because century after century might pass and still the race, without the Ideal, could not advance, for the Ideal is the only spark of advancement, and without it the race would fall forever into the power of the Tendency to exist unimproved.

This brings us to the proposition, that one animated by soul will never find his or her

ideal man or woman. For the Ideal implanted in the breast is not for the purpose of comparison with the race as it now is, but for the purpose of being born in the flesh, and to be realized in the next, or in future, generations.

Theologians tell us that man is the only animal endowed with Soul or Ideal. Man is the only animal now advancing and all other animals are "fixed," not possessing that eternal spark of the Logos or Ideal.

Those who cannot see that there are any evil powers, or that there could be any power except the "all-powerful good," find it difficult to explain the accidents, horrors and calamities which befall even the "righteous."

That "good" is all-powerful, in the way the word "omnipotent" was first used, may be admitted; namely, that it is a stronger power than evil, and will win in the end. But the thoughtful man will not of himself evolve a theory blaming every accident or other adverse event upon the "good" power, nor will he of himself think that such are "visitations

us.

of the wrath of God," or are sent to us by the Divine will because they are "good for It obviously would not be necessary, to an omnipotent power, to destroy a city by fire, or sink a boat-load of innocent excursionists, in order to teach to the bereaved the doctrine of patience. Neither would He do evil that good might come if He were omnipotent good. Again, by the standard of right and wrong implanted in the human breast, it would not be possible for the Ideal Good to have wrath, or to destroy our lives to appease it; and Bible students tell us that the Hebrew word translated "wrath," should more properly have been translated merely as a synonym for power.

Neither would it be possible that the Divine Good should be the author of what mental aberration in ourselves or kinks in our environment, are translated by the words "sin, sickness and death."

Although these things are not real in this sense, namely, that they will not conquer in the end, yet to those who suffer humiliation through sin, as well as to those who feel the

"claims" of sickness and those who are bereaved by the "claims" of death, these things are very real, as real as anything that comes to their consciousness. Whether the cause of them be the evil INFLUENCE of the tendency or will to exist unimproved, or the evil INFLUENCE of demons or devils, the result is the same. The opposing WILL, adverse to mankind, is the power ever laying its hands. upon us in hate and attempting to draw us back into everlasting death. That adverse will, although less powerful in the end than the will of the Ideal or CHRISTPOWER, is still a belligerent, and must be recognized as such, whether we personify it under various names according to its various aspects or not. The battle ground is everywhere. Each one knows the phase of the great adversary most pressing against him. To the materialists, no less than to the idealists, the battle is a real one. The difference is one largely of names and personifications.

Should we then fold our hands because we believe good will triumph over evil in the end?

Can we supinely surrender to the evil powers now, in the knowledge that in any event the human race will not be injured by our cowardice, because the Power of Good is able to bring good out of evil?

Those are the questions which each one has to honestly face in his own heart and much depends, for him, on the answer that he gives.

Man's body is the temple of the living Logos or Word. Man's soul, the only I am, is that Logos. In any event the "I am” within us will overcome evil in the end, but because the battle with the evil powers threatens that sense, which we have, of individual or separate life, we must not individually or separately surrender, or even rest quietly under the attacks of the enemy.