industrial justice, there is still very much in the system under which
we live that makes for an inability to understand some of the most
elementary phrasings of Christian truth. The only way out is to see the
system as it is and to take such steps forward as can be taken now. Only
thus can we keep our souls saved, and only thus also can we follow the
flashes from above.

Jesus preached the highest ideal for individual righteousness. Men are
to strive to be perfect even as the Father in heaven is perfect. But the
perfection is to show itself in social impartiality in the use of
material opportunities. God sendeth the rain to fall and the sun to
shine on the evil and the good. How many Christians of the present day
could be safely intrusted with the distribution of rainfall and
sunshine? Those of us who dwell in lands that must be irrigated know
that the type of Christianity that can be trusted to deal fairly with
our irrigation system is somewhat unusual.

We take the injustices of the present social order too much as a matter
of course. We ought to see them as making against humanity, and
therefore against the scriptural revelation. When these injustices
culminate in a war like the present, the only safety is thought that
deals honestly with the inhumanity of the war. Granted that war in self-
defense is justifiable, we keep ourselves open to divine revelations
only as we refuse to glorify the inhuman. Only that nation can succeed
in war and remain open to revelation from above which recognizes the
inhumanity of war and refuses to glorify it.

Closely related to the blight of the spirit of this present world is the
failure to perceive the need of missionary spirit for a full grasp of
scriptural truth. Though the Bible was given to a peculiar people, self-