Influence of Dreams--Divine Capacity of Suffering--Persistence of What
Is Good--Good Men Who Are Not Christians--Insanity--Blind Tom.


XII.

A FEEBLE NOTE OF WARNING.

The Creed of Eternal Torment--Do Ministers Really Believe It?--If They
Do, Why Not Say So?--No Decisive Note of Warning--Definite Missionary
Incentive Is Wanting--The Phrase, "Eternal Death," Often Used--Does It
Mean Annihilation, or Eternal Torment, or What?--Vague Reference to
Punishment Fosters Unbelief--An Age of Compromise--Professor Faulkner's
Testimony--The Idea of Restoration Would Fully Meet the
Difficulty--Honesty and Candor--Carlyle's Scathing Warning--Ultimate
Fulfilment of Prophecy--Eternal Songs.


XIII.

PROPHECIES YET TO BE FULFILLED.

Enlarging Vision--Promise to Abraham--A Host of Similar Promises--Many
of Them Not Merely National--Their Fulfilment--Not Limited by the
Short Epoch of Time--The Present Only One Part of the Divine
Administration--Why the Revelation Was Not Given Sooner--Groping in the
Twilight--Growing Illumination--A Time for Everything--Dazzle or
Enlighten--Discoveries in Science are Really Revelations--Our Slowness
in Receiving Spiritual Truth--Limitations of Great Men.