in humanity impress him?

2. Why did he condemn so sternly those who caused the weak to stumble?
Estimate the relative force of the natural weakness of human nature, and
of the pressure of socialized evil, when individuals go wrong.

3. Do you agree with the exposition in the Daily Reading for the Fourth
Day? Do men want to be let alone? Is this an evidence of sinful tendency?

4. What personal experiences of Jesus prompted the parable of the tares?
Was the conception of Satan in Jewish religion of individual or social
origin? When did it have political significance?

III. _The Irrepressible Conflict_

1. Why did Jesus foresee an inevitable conflict if the Kingdom of God was
to come? Has history borne him out?

2. Does mystical religion involve a man in conflict? Does ascetic
religion? Which books him for more conflict with social evil--a life set on
the Kingdom of God on earth, or a faith set on the life to come?

3. What form does the conflict with evil take in our personal life? What
reinforcement does the Christian religion as a spiritual faith offer us?
What personal experience have we of its failure or its effectiveness?

4. What is meant by evil being socialized? In what ways does this increase
the ability of evil to defend and propagate itself?

5. What are the most dangerous forms of organized evil today? How do they
work?

6. What are the most disastrous "stumbling blocks" today for working
people? For business men? For students?

7. The Church sings many militant hymns. Is the Church as a whole a
fighting force today?

IV. _For Special Discussion_

1. How should an individual go about it to fight concrete and socialized
evils in a community?

2. How can a church get into the fight? Should the Church go into
politics? Why, or why not?

3. Would Christianity be just as influential as a social power of
salvation if the Christian Church did not exist?

4. Will the fight against evil ever be won? If not, is it worth fighting?

Chapter XI. The Cross As A Social Principle

_Social Redemption is Wrought by Vicarious Suffering_

DAILY READINGS

First Day: The Prophetic Succession

And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man planted a
vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the
winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and
went into another country. And at the season he sent to the
husbandmen a servant, that he might r