The historical books tell the story of the wandering of man from God again and again, and show how all such wandering issued in disaster. They also reveal the one unending purpose of God to bring man back into harmony with that Will. The methods were many; the intention one. The devout of all the ages breathed, if not in words yet in spirit, the same prayer—” Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done.” The very essence of evil lay in the rebellion of the human heart against that Kingdom and that Will. The