absurdities are we reduced by denying that He died for all, or that He
will save all. The only logical, reverent, and divine solution seems to
be that He intended to save all, and that He will do it. "God will
infallibly accomplish everything at which He aims."

I lately heard an address--one of the best that I have heard--by a Canon
of the Episcopal Church. His theme was: The work and aims of the British
and Foreign Bible Society. The address was scholarly, lucid, earnest;
and the language was absolutely perfect.

But like every address that I have heard on kindred subjects, it never
so much as hinted at the results in the next life, if we failed in the
duty the speaker so strongly recommended. Not once did he speak of
eternal torment as a possible issue. What a tremendous incitement to
duty is here, could it be but presented with the accent of conviction.
But as a matter of fact, it is never presented at all, except in terms
so vague that they actually mean nothing.

I do not know, in the case I have referred to, if the Canon believes in
everlasting fire. Nor do I know that the creed of the Episcopal Church
endorses it. What a glorious opportunity is here for an earnest and
consistent minister in that church to publicly denounce such a doctrine
as a hideous dream! So far as I know, he would not expose himself
thereby, as in most other churches, to pains and penalties. I think, on
the contrary, a vast number would rally around him, both in his own
church and outside of it. Is not the religious world waiting for some
pronounced leadership on this question? I am convinced that there are
thousands of prominent ministers who do not believe in eternal torment,
but who keep up a pretense of doing so, in order to avoid loss of
reputation--perhaps of livelihood. Is it not time for earnest men to be