Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE HI THE INEXOBABLENESS OF MORAL LAW WHEN one looks out upon a continent deluged with human blood, the question leaps to his lips which Gideon asked centuries ago: "If the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of ?" The question "Why?" has been during these recent months on our lips a thousand times. We have punctuated our reading of the newspaper accounts of carnage with—Why? We have sighed it, and cried it, and moaned it. We have woven it into our prayers. With us Christians it has been an agonizing question because we are committed to the belief that God lives and reigns, and that He is a God of love. But the heart keeps asking, Where is He? Where was He when the shells screamed and burst over the heads of the multitude of men,women, and children who streamed forth from falling Antwerp? Where was He when Poland was swept with fire and sword? Where was He when the Lusi- tania sank? Where was He when the Turkish butchers piled up the bodies of the Armenian dead? The man of the world has also had his perplexity. He, too, has asked Why? Science has trained all of us to think of the universe as being governed according to law. We cannot easily think of any phenomenon without seeking its cause. We cannot readily believe that events are unrelated. The sequence of things which happen is what it is, for a reason. When a planet refused to keep in the orbit which the astronomer had traced, he had no rest day or night until he had found an explanation for this singular behaviour. It was the perturbation of Uranus which led to the finding of Neptune. Men had for generations died of yellow fever at Panama, and when the Scientist got on the field he proceeded to investigate the cause of the fever. Cancer co...