presents its peculiar moral problems and at the dawn of the Twentieth Century, the present World-War has revived a host of ethical evils. War itself is an abnormal moral state, a complete contradiction of the gospel of Love which religion has always promulgated. So-called civilized nations have been guilty of cruel acts that bespeak a savage ethical code. Moral atavism characterizes the international duel, now being fought in the Old World. Evidently, in the words of the poet Tennyson, "Man has not yet lost the tiger and the ape."

The moral effort of Religion must still continue. The existence of the least evil is a constant stimulus to Its task. Now all religions, primitive and civilized, have dealt with this paramount problem. All faiths have had the ethical implication, and whether the devotee worshipped a stick or a stone, a star or a planet, an animal or a man, he inevitably sought moral inspiration from his god or gods. Somehow, no matter how crude the religion, Morality became connected with it. This is true despite the fact that, in every pantheon of deities, there may be found a few powers of evil and malevolence. For instance, the Zoroastrian religion taught the existence of the power of good, Ahriman, and the power of evil, Ahura-Mazda, between whom there occurred a constant cosmic struggle. The Medieval people implicitly believed in an evil being who wrought all the mischief in the world. He was called either Satan or the Devil, Lucifer or Mephistopheles. When the evil power took hold of a man, he was not responsible for his misconduct or misdeeds.