THE LAW OF REBIRTH 25

only one chance for man in one single life has
made him press forward with everything that
pertains to that life. He has had to hurry up,
for he would get no second chance if he
missed this, the one, opportunity. The hurry,
bustle and scurry of the West may be largely
due to this thought behind it, to get in as
much as possible in a short space of time, the
object of this not being for the good of the
whole but for man's individual and personal
advancement.

It does not need a profound thinker to ask a
few questions of the teachers of the one life
system, for the first thought that comes to one
is: " How can I believe in the justice of God ? "
I remember when I was busy in one of London's
largest hospitals how this question came again
and again to me when I saw the suffering
and pain endured, specially, by the children.
Why should children be born to suffer ? How
could an all-merciful and just God allow the
suffering ; and what is the cause ? At the first
question the idea that the child's soul or spirit
is a new creation broke down utterly unless
one doubted the justice of God. A just God
and a newly created spirit do not work together.
Heredity is no answer either, and belief in free-
will comes to naught in the face of the world's