solicitude multiplied a thousand fold if it were realized that the
issues involved are eternal?

When we get to that point where these great issues can be presented as
real facts, and not merely as half believed theories, I believe there
would be no difficulty in raising funds for missions. And surely, it
will not then be a matter of assessment, but of free will. May the
glorious day be hastened!




IV.


INFINITE JUSTICE.

A Strong Argument--Universal Atonement--Infinite Justice Satisfied--A
Candid Methodist Minister--Can Man Commit an Infinite Sin--Everlasting
Punishment Could Never Be Endured--Uses of Suffering--Punitive and
Remedial--The Penalty has Been Paid--Moral Effect--Mystery of Pain--Not
Punishment but Chastening--Extending Our Outlook Beyond--Boundless
Space and Time--Operation of Grace in the Next Life--Infinite
Power--Infinite Mercy--Infinite Love--Incentive to Endless Praise.


It may be said that in this argument I am not taking sufficient account
of divine justice. That may be so. The fact is, that the relation of
justice to the idea of universal salvation was one of the last ideas on
this subject that came to my mind. But now it seems to me that in the