In the thick of the Fight

Looking upon the world around us,we cannot hide from ourselves
the existence of a vast amount of sorrow and suffering.

True,much of it is obviously the fault of the sufferers,and might easily
be avoided by the exercise of a little self-control and common-sense ;
but there is also much which is not immediately self-induced,
but undoubtedly comes from without.

It oftens seems as though evil triumphs,as thought justice fails in
the midst of the storm and stress of the roaring confusion of life,
and because of this many despair of the ultimate result,
and doubt whether there is in truth any plan of definite
progress behind all this bewildering chaosd.


It is all a question of the point of view ;
the man who is himself in the thick of the fight cannot judge
of the plan of the general or the progress of the conflict.

To understand the battle as a whole,
one must withdraw from the tumult and look down upon the field
from above.