Who is regulating affairs on this earth today-God or the Devil? That God reigns supreme in Heaven is generally conceded; that He does so over this world is almost universally denied-if not directly then indirectly. More and more are men in their philosophizing and theorizing relegating God to the background. Take the material realm. Not only is it denied that God created everything by personal and direct action but few believe that He has any immediate concern in regulating the works of His own hands.

Everything is supposed to be ordered according to the (impersonal and abstract) "laws of Nature". Thus is the Creator banished from His own creation. Therefore we need not be surprised that men in their degrading conceptions exclude Him from the realm of human affairs.