The concluding chapter of this series is, in the main, a transcript of my booklet on _The Responsibility of God_, published by Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, of Edinburgh. I have to thank these gentlemen, and I do so heartily, for their permission to make this further use of it. Considerable changes are made in the reproduction; but I think this admission is due to any buyers the book may secure. I have also to mention my great indebtedness to Rev. J. F. Shepherd, M.A., of Manchester, for his help with the proofs, and for some valuable suggestions as to emendations of expression. AMBROSE SHEPHERD. 6, Thornville Terrace, Glasgow. CONTENTS I YOUTH AND AFTER II YOUTH'S STRATEGIC PLACES III THE WORSHIP OF LUCK IV A DEVIL'S TRINITY V TEMPTATION AND RESPONSIBILITY VI SELF-RESPECT AND COMPANIONSHIPS VII THE ROYAL LAW VIII 'HE WAS DESPISED AND REJECTED' IX 'WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?' X DOES GOD HAVE FAIR-PLAY? YOUTH AND AFTER "And Terah died in Haran."--Gen. xi. 32. YOUTH AND AFTER "And Terah died in Haran." This bit of prosaic information becomes suggestive by the emphasis of one word: "And Terah _died_ in Haran." This was not his birthplace, but here he ended his days, and that for a reason over which it is worth our while to pause. "And Terah died in Haran." What of that? All people have died somewhere, who have lived and are dead. When we first meet this man, he was a citizen of no mean city. Ur of the Chaldees was a great and representative centre in its day. Rising sheer from the midst of it, we are told, was an immense tower, or observatory, from the height of which men, reputed wise, watched the movements of the heavenly bodies; and especially the moon, for the moon was worshipped in Ur of the Chaldees as the great tutelary deity of this people. Here it was that Terah lived, at this time an old man, and "to trade," as the Scotch people would say, a maker of images. His craft was in things which symbolized some form of this lunar worship, and which people bought to put in their houses.