infinite love, will not fail of their purpose.

It is this belief in the final success of God's designs that gives us
the assurance of ultimate Restoration. For if God loves the world--that
is, every soul in the world--and if He gave His Son for the Salvation of
the world--and if the sacrifice of the Son is sufficient for the
salvation of the world--then we may be sure that infinite wisdom, love,
and power will find a way of attaining the end in view. Somehow--some
time--somewhere--the divine purpose will be accomplished.

I am fortified in this view by the words of an eminent Presbyterian
divine that I have just chanced to meet with. He says: "God infallibly
accomplishes everything at which He aims." I take that principle in a
wider application than he intended; and taking it so, it is a strong
argument for ultimate Restoration.


A SERIOUS DEPARTURE.

Just apply that principle to the theory of everlasting torment. Is it to
be supposed that God really "aims" at that, and that hence He
"infallibly accomplishes" it? It is almost blasphemy to think so. Yet
that is the idea that has been held to be orthodox, and any apparent
swerving from it has been treated as a serious departure from the faith.
But men's hearts are sometimes better than their heads; hence we hear
little now of eternal torment.

And the heart is a good place for a reform in doctrine to begin. When
these larger ideas simmer for a while in men's hearts, they will
gradually find expression on their tongues. There are many men who feel