THE CHALLENGE OF EVIL

of free personal will and self-reliance which is the pillar of manhood. Good indeed is that apparent evil which challenges and resîsts us, and so makes explicit the power and glory that are implicit in us. Evil is the way in which a higher good first manifests itself. That which we can see to be good, we are on a level with ; that which seems evil, conceals a good at a higher level. Evil is not the déniai of good; nor is it the shadow where the good should be ; it is the indication of the présence of a good which cannot be oturs until we hâve won the mastery over it. Evil is the fearsome flame-armed cherubim who stand betwixt us and the Tree of Life. It is the thrusting challenge of a good which invites, taunts, dares us up to possess it.