X.

DIVINE LOVE.

Infinite Being and Perfection--Grades of Being--Variety--Man's
Limitations--Moral Beings--Hopeless Surroundings--All Are the Children
of God--Righting the Wrongs of Time--"The Heart of the Universe Is
Love"--Eternal Conscious Torment Incredible--Conquering Power of
Love--Eternal Purpose Will Not Fail--Omnipotence in the Moral Realm--The
Divine Expression of Love--Universal Atonement Involves Universal
Salvation--Final Success of God's Designs--Will Evil Necessarily
Perpetuate Itself?--Triumph of Good Over Evil--Few Stripes or
Many--Reformatory Punishment--Bringing Good Out of Evil--Possibilities
of Redeeming Grace--The Ransomed of the Lord--Wrath but the Shadow of
Love--Former Eternity of Sinlessness--Wrath No Constituent of the Divine
Character--Pity and Indignation.


XI.

THE ATONEMENT.

Extent of the Atonement--The Dilemma of Universal Atonement and Partial
Salvation--Human Systems of Truth--Methodist Theology--Tradition and
Reason--Dr. Dale's View--No Divine Failure--Imperfection of All
Theological Systems--"Sufficient but Not Efficient"--Undeveloped
Possibilities--The Angel in the Apocalypse--Omnipotence Both in the
Physical and the Moral Realm--The Short Epoch of Time--Advance of
the Presbyterian Church in the United States--Individual
Congregations--Hardening Effects of the Narrower View--The Softening