‘The facts of moral evil, those are what seem to overwhelm one at times. There are children born into such terrible surroundings, we say. There again we can see a little way up into the darkness, and trust. We do see that the redemption of the lost is often effected by the knowledge that others suffer through their sin.... ‘Do we not know enough of our interests and God’s infinite wisdom to make us trust God for the universal good? Men must be left to work out the consequences of evil, to bear them, and learn it is God’s purpose for them to rise out of the darkness into increasing love of His holy will. At length regenerated humanity will so enter into sympathy with the Spirit of God mediated through the indwelling Christ, that things in Heaven and earth will be recapitulated in Him the Head, and will become intelligently and lovingly obedient to that will. The cost of suffering is as nothing compared with the infinite good. I can only sketch the outline of my faith.’ The letter which follows was written to a pupil who, while she was at school, did not personally know Miss Beale very well. A talk at a Guild meeting eleven years after she left revealed to Miss Beale’s penetrating eye some distress caused by disillusionment and disappointment. A fortnight afterwards she wrote:— ‘_July 1898._ ‘I have so often thought of our interrupted conversation, and must take a bit of my first Saturday evening to write a line.