f the world, thus waiting for the fulness of the divine
enrichment, will men realise the heinousness of life-suppression.
Lives based on the code of morals which prefers coffins to cradles are
lives which fight against God, and as such are doomed to be ground to
powder by His judgment. When God, the source of all life, is once
realised, then the soul of the life-destroyer must shrink back in
horror and dismay. {191} 'Woe is me, for I am undone,' will be the cry
of his lips. Men can conquer their fellows, but there is only the
devouring of hell for those who fight against God. When God ceased to
be a reality, the destruction of life was but a natural sacrifice to
our ease. There being nothing higher than ourselves, then to ourselves
let us sacrifice even life. When God in His divine majesty will again
shine forth before the soul, and the eyes behold the Divine Life
everywhere waiting its realisation, then human life again shall become
precious and desired, and the race will measure its felicity by the
multitude of its children. The silent terraces will again ring with
joyous voices. The race, with its fountains of life overflowing, will
again go forth to vivify the earth.

If only the world were realised as of God, all our difficulties would
vanish. Think what it would mean to the man who has devoted a whole
parish to his own recreation. The green places where {192} little
children called to each other are covered with pheasant coops! The
places where children could grow in health are given over to birds.
Let such a man once see that the world was created that love might
increase and be multiplied, that on it God might realise His creative
energy in the highest form, and he will be stricken with shame and
convicted of sin. Childhood and innocence he has vanished from his
land that his ears might hear the whirr of the flying of grouse, and
that he might have the joy of killing. When the vision of God arises
upon him he will abhor his selfishness and set himself to repair the
desolation that has been wrought. He will have no rest until the green
places again are filled with the glory and the radiance of life. The
slums will be emptied and the now silent places peopled anew, when the
nation realises again that God created the world to be the home of His
children.

In this return to God is the solution to be found of all our
difficulties. For {193} in this return is the discovery of our common
sonship, and