The old dilemma faced me incessantly: "If He can prevent it and does not, He is not good; if He wishes to prevent it and cannot, He is not almighty." I racked my brains for an answer.

I searched writings of believers for a clue, but I found no way of escape.

Not yet had any doubt of the existence of God crossed my mind.
Mr.D---- continued to write me, striving to guide me along the path which had led his own soul to contentment, but I can only find room here for two brief extracts, which will show how to himself he solved the problem.

He thought me mistaken in my view "Of the nature of the _sin_ and _error_ which is supposed to grieve God.

I take it that sin is an absolutely necessary factor in the production of the perfect man.