God’s Counsel and Man’s Responsibility (*)

My subject for tonight is a difficult one, as all will admit. The reason for its choice on my part must not be sought in its novelty, for the problem it presents has been in men's minds as long as they have contemplated the relation between God and man, the divine and the human. And at all times the thoughts of men have been divided on this subject and radically opposite solutions have been offered of the implied problem. On the one hand, there have been, and there still are, those that are...