Confronted with such a catastrophe as the contemporary world situation presents, with evil so wildly rampant, destruction and death so widespread and violent, and the threat of the triumph of ruthlessness so imminent, one question keeps coming up to pester and plague religious faith with an incorrigible persistency: With everything seeming to go to pieces, what on earth is God doing? Where is he? Doesn’t he care? Is he unaware, or unseeing, or impotent to do anything about such a ghastly calamity?

Of course, the irreligious, in face of such human horror, cynically cite the uncontrolled chaos to vindicate their contention that there is no God, or should there be some semblance of one, that he is obviously so weak and incompetent that he does not matter anyhow.

But most men are, as Sabatie…