More than that. Consider that the Creator endows every one of the race
with mental powers of almost infinite expansion; yea, better still,
with moral powers and affections akin to those of the angels. Then
consider that in the case of most, these divine powers were to be
extinguished, and that the unfortunate beings who had been endowed with
them were to pass back into nonentity, or be cast into everlasting
torment. In the one case there would be utter abortion; in the other,
there would be everlasting development of evil. Could you conceive of
anything more unworthy of Eternal Wisdom?

Still more. God foresaw and arranged the great scheme of Redemption.
That it was to be available for the whole race was divinely intended. We
are told again and again that God gave His Son for the world. It is said
that He "tasted death for every man." But God did not take means to
apply it to every man in this life. He could easily have done so. He
could have sent His angels to proclaim to men the good news of
salvation. Such an idea is not so far-fetched as at first sight it may
appear. We follow the same principle when we send missionaries to the
heathen. Oceans were formerly almost impassable. There is still more or
less risk, both from the voyage and the climate and the hostility of
savages. We may well suppose that angels could pass more easily from
star to star than that man can pass from continent to continent. And all
the savagery of evil men could have no effect on angels.

Why, then, did He not send them? He must have foreseen that men would
fail in giving the Gospel to the heathen. But was the eternal destiny of
the great majority of our race to depend on the whim of men? If God
provided salvation for the heathen, would He not convey it to them in
some way? Evidently, He has not done so in this life. Do we not begin,
then, to see that there must be some other time, or some other means, of