l education, but a conflict with hostile forces which
resist, neutralize, and defy whatever works toward the true social order.
The strategy of the Kingdom of God, therefore, involves a study of the
social problem of evil.

DAILY READINGS

First Day: The Consciousness of Sin in the Lord's Prayer

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil
one.--Matt. 6:12, 13.

The Lord's Prayer expresses the very mind and spirit of the Master. It
begins with the Kingdom of God; it ends with the problem of sin. As we
stand before God, we realize that we have loaded up our life with debts we
can never pay. We have wasted our time, and the powers of body and soul.
We have left black marks of contagion on some whose path we have crossed.
We have hurt even those who loved us by our ill-temper, thoughtlessness,
and selfishness.

We can only ask God to forgive and give us another chance: "Forgive us our
debts." Looking forward we see the possibility of fatal temptations. We
know how fragile our power of resistance is. "Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil." Thus the consciousness of sin is written across
this greatest of all prayers.

Is a sense of unworthiness an indication of moral strength or of weakness?

_Where do we draw the line between a normal and abnormal sense of sin?_

Second Day: Evil Embodied in Character

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree
corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its
fruit. Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth good things:
and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth forth evil
things. And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall
speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For
by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt
be condemned.--Matt. 12:33-37.

Character is formed by action, but after it is formed, it determines
action. What a man says and does, he becomes; and what he has become, he
says and does. An honest and clean-minded man instinctively does what is
kind and honorable. But when a man for years has gone for profit and
selfish power, you can trust him as a general thing to do what is