Did I say power? Yes, power, with infinite love and wisdom behind it.
What will this triumvirate of infinities not accomplish? The power of
God in the material world gives us a strong suggestion of His power in
the moral world. Can we then think of such an utter failure as eternal
torment as being the ultimate doom of the creatures that God has made in
His own likeness?
Another consideration is this, that there is some way of salvation
provided for infants. That is acknowledged now on all hands. Time was,
and not so long ago, that it was accounted very orthodox to say that
there were infants in hell "not a span long." But it is not so now. It
is admitted that by some unknown process all infants are saved. Now if
there be a method of saving infants, is it so hard to conceive that
there may be a method of saving adults? To be sure, the adults may be
great sinners, and so the process may radically differ. But the minds of
very young infants are a perfect blank at first, and so every idea that
they require to fit them for the better world has to be communicated. So
there must be some process of education. It is easy then to conceive of
a process of education for adults, combined of course with such
discipline as each case may require. It is reasonable to conceive that
some will pass through that intermediate stage without any suffering,
except such as may come with larger visions of truth.
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