3. After all, there are many things which might make us inclined to hate this immensely strong and righteous Person. With all His strength and with all His righteousness, there is a terrible amount of suffering in the world. The old question that some of your children may have asked you who are mothers has far more in it than appears upon the surface: "Oh, mother, why does not GOD kill the devil?" The world is filled with injustice and cruelty, and especially so to-day. Ypres Cathedral and the Cloth Hall, as I have seen with my own eyes, are in ruins. So are thousands of homes in Belgium, France, and Poland, and yet not one single thing was done by the innocent inhabitants to deserve this fate. Who is going to give life again to the hundreds shot in cold blood in Louvain and Aerschott and elsewhere, and seen shot by one of the clergy of the diocese of London; or honour again to the outraged women and girls; or restore the dead children--born and unborn--to the mothers who lost their children in the last Zeppelin raid? Where is the GOD of the fatherless and of the widow? It is all very well to say, "It is GOD in His holy habitation." But why does He sit up there in His holy habitation while such things are being done upon earth? Is He reclining, as Tennyson pictured the ancient gods, "On the hills, like gods together, Careless of mankind"? he may stay there; but if he does, who is going to love him? whom do we love in england to-day? is our popular hero the man who, while he remains safe in the shelter of his home, suggests that someone else should go and do something to save the country? for myself, if i thought god was like that, i should not love him. browning, with that piercing insight which has helped so many, puts the matter in a sentence. is it possible, he asks in that great argument contained in the poem "saul," "Here the parts shift, Here the creature surpasses the Creator?" "Would I suffer for him that I love?" cries David, as he looks with love and pity on stricken Saul. "Would I suffer for him that I love? So wouldest Thou, so wilt Thou." And it is an argument that no petty quibbles can affect. For instance, if the boys in the trenches every day and every night so give their lives for their friends; if the mother every day so loves the world that she gives her only begotten son, and GOD either cannot or will not, then man is greater than GOD; then the creature surpasses the Creator; the parts in the great drama have changed indeed.