Every Christian must have asked himself why God allows the infamous horror of war. I’m told the padres are constantly being asked by the brave lads at the Front why the Almighty allows it to continue. I can’t blame anyone for being puzzled. I’ve wrestled with the question long and anxiously.... I can’t believe that God would leave His children to suffer without a clue to His intention.
Mrs. Poole.
The ways of God are inscrutable. How can we tell what are the aims of the eternal? We only know that they are good.
John.
Meanwhile men are being killed like flies, their wives and mothers are left desolate, and their children fatherless.
Vicar.
You mustn’t forget exactly what is meant by “Almighty.” It means not so much able to do all things as powerful over all things.
John.
Ah, the padre of my regiment told me that. I may be very stupid, but I think the distinction rather fine. For the plain man the difficulty remains. Either God can’t stop the war even if He wants to, or He can stop it and won’t.
Mrs. Poole.