And then we have such a revelation of the character of God that we could
expect no less. He is infinite Wisdom; He is infinite Power; and He is
infinite Love. Put those three things together, and what will they not
accomplish? Think the matter over for awhile. Can you imagine any
consummation less than the final salvation of all?
That divine wisdom, divine power, and divine love can compass nothing
better than endless torment, is almost unthinkable. And if such an
ultimatum could be thought of as a possibility, then I would humbly ask:
Is such a consummation worthy of God? And I would ask also: What would
be the practical benefit of it? Would it not be a reflection on love
and power that are infinite?
To think that man was made in the divine image, and had within him the
potentiality of attaining to absolute perfection and blessedness, but
that his career has culminated instead in the character of a demon, and
the suffering of endless torment! Is it possible to believe that the
divine administration could be such a failure?
This is no exaggeration Men believed, or tried to believe, that for
certain persons of the human race there was no possibility of a
different fate. They might say it was possible because they did not know
who was elected and who was not; and that they did not know for whom
Christ died, and for whom He did not die.
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