LAW AND SIN general consensus of the conscience of the race as a whole, it would probably be found to be in accord with the greater part of the natural moral law. But the individual conscience, though probably also in major accord, is apt to show startling variations, from country to country and from man to man. Thus, even on matters which simply concern the right use of man’s nature, conscience, lacking information from without, can give contradictory answers. But on the most important questions of all — those which are concerned with man’s Supernatural Destiny — the unaided conscience gives no answer at all. On the question “Ought I to divorce my wife? ” — conscience, apart from God’s teaching, gives different men different answers. But on the question “Ought I to be baptized?” — conscience, apart from God’s teaching, gives no man any answer. If, then, there is no teacher capable of giving us God’s law, we are left with nothing but this internal judgment of our own, which on the most obvious questions is capable of being wrong and on the most important questions can only be silent. A man must follow his conscience, the judgment of his intellect as to what is right and wrong. But the very supremacy of conscience renders it vital that conscience should be instructed. Consider man’s position. There is in him no internal faculty that tells him with either certainty or completeness, in every situation that can arise, 93