Some days I cannot help wondering what Christ would think if He were to come back and find people, all these good Christian people everywhere using the Cross--the Cross of all things in the world as an objection to the Golden Rule and to its working properly, or as a general argument against expecting anything of anybody. I do not know that I have any philosophy about it that would be of any value to others. I only know that I am angry all through when I hear a certain sort of man saying, and apparently proving, that the Golden Rule does not work. And I am angry at other people who are listening with me because they are not angry too. Why are people so complacent about crosses? And why are they willing to keep on having and expecting to have in this world all the good people on crosses? Why do they keep on treating these crosses year after year, century after century, in a dull tired way as if they had become a kind of conventionality of God's, a kind of good old church custom, something that He and the Church by this time, after two thousand years, could not really expect to try to get over or improve upon? I do not know that I ought to feel as I do. I only know that the moment I see evil triumphing in this world, there is one thing that that evil comes up against. It comes up against my will. My will, so far as it goes, is a spiritual fact. I do not argue about it, nor do I know that I wish to justify it. I merely accept my will as it is, as one spiritual fact. I propose to know what to do with it next. The first thing that I have done, of course, has been to find out that there are millions of other so-called Christian people who have encountered this same fact that I have encountered. There are at least some of us who stand together. Our wills are set against having any more people die on crosses in this world than can be helped. If there is any kind of skill, craftmanship, technique, psychology, knowledge of human nature which can be brought to bear, which will keep the best people in this world not only from being, but from belonging on crosses in it, we propose to bring these things to bear. We are not willing to believe that crowds are not inclined to Goodness. We are not willing to slump down on any general slovenly assumption about the world that goodness cannot be made to work in it. If goodness is not efficient in this world we will make it efficient. Our reason for saying this is that we honestly glory in this world. We believe that at this moment while we are still on it, it is in the act of being a great world, that it is God's world, and in God's Name we will defend its reputation.