The mere fact
that infants require some place and process of development beyond this
life, is a strong argument for such aid being rendered to others
as well.
Also, take the case of suicides. There are many who in a frenzy of
despair commit the crime of self-destruction. It is easy to believe that
there is sympathy and helpfulness for them on the other shore.
And so with lunatics. Apart from Restoration it is difficult to think
what will become of them. They are not responsible, and it would be
unfair to treat them as criminals. On the other hand, they have no ideas
nor character such as would fit them for a better world. But they will
regain their intellect at the point they lost it; and it is not hard to
conceive of their swift upward trend.
There is one very serious difficulty which we can conceive of no way of
solving, except on the supposition of Restoration. I refer to the agony
which a person must suffer even in heaven on finding that loved friends
or relatives are not there. To know that they are in extinction, that
they are fit for nothing better, and that hence they are shut out from
eternal joy, would surely be an everlasting pang. And the case is
infinitely worse if it is realized that they are in endless torment. We
think the very thought of that would be unendurable even in a
better world.
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