IN this life of ours, so full of mystery, so hung about with wonders, so written over with dark riddles, where even the lights held by prophets and inspired ones only serve to disclose the solemn portals of a future state of being, leaving all beyond in shadow, perhaps the darkest and most difficult problem which presents itself is that of the origin of evil, -the source whence flow the black and bitter waters of sin and suffering and discord, -the wrong which all men see in others and feel in themselves, -the unmistakable facts of human depravity and mise