Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — Human Responsibility. [ARTICLE]

Human Responsibility.

In the earlier days of the war we heard many people asking why it was that God did not interfere to prevent this greatest calamity of all the ages. The question was asked with such an intensity of feeling that frequently it was little else than a blaming of the Almighty for the terrible evils which it seemed he might easily have prevented. But we do not hear the question asked so much today. It is certain that a new thought has come td many, a truer and more honest way of looking at things. In the terrible qsirock of the great struggle we have come to see that there are a great many things that men have been wont to lay at God’s door that ought to be In front of their own., A new sense of human responsibility has suddenly come upon us, and we are not saying “Why does not God prevent evil?” but rather “What may we do to destroy it and put something better in its place V And this sense of human responsibility for human failure and wrong and sitt ■ is one of th,e things that give us courage and hope for the future. —Montreal Herald. ————: