that are into right relations with one another.

The idea that any man can be right regardless of others we scout as
absurd. The ideal civilization we work for here, even the heaven we
long for, is simply a condition of living where the things that
separate, despoil, and introduce discord are no more. The hope of the
race is to be in right relations with all things. All the great
religions are as the footprints of peoples who have sought the truth
that would lead them to be right and just with one another, with the
world, and with the great unseen powers behind all being. Our
universal sense of wrongness is but part of our passion for rightness.

The sense of imperfection and the desire for improvement have marked
all religions that have influenced men. In the Jew this desire for
righteousness was supreme. Job is but a type. Coming to himself
amongst the ruin of all the things he counted most precious, he forgets
their loss in his desire to solve the great problem, What is right and
how may I reach it? Somewhere he knows there is a solution to all the
riddles of his friends and the questions of his own heart. An orderly
universe is not crowned by a being whose life must ever remain an
unsolved riddle. Men are not adrift in a fog with no hope of taking
bearings. If men have marked the natural world with lines of latitude
and longitude for the guidance of its travellers, the moral world is
not without its markings.

Job's very question contains the only answer that has ever satisfied
man. God Himself is the great meridian of all morality. From Him we
may measure all relationships and get them right. That is the
essential message of the Bible; it strikes that first of all in "In the
beginning God----" Every life is right in the measure that it adjusts