Mind--The Race Might Easily Have Been Intercepted--Endless Torment
Cannot Be Believed--The Mind's Affinity for Truth--True Punishment Is
Reformatory--Alleged Divine Cruelty--Agony of Eternal--Ingersoll and
His Shafts of Ridicule--Incentive to Good Works--Unfathomable Divine
Love--"Joy Cometh in the Morning"


XVI.

THE CASE OP SAUL.

Divine Methods of Reclaiming Men--"The Chief of Sinners"--Changed' in a
Moment--No Violence Done to His Freedom--Yet Sovereign Power--The
Mystery of Grace--View of McCosh--Supremacy of Conscience--Sir Isaac
Newton's Wonderful Alertness of Mind--Reason and Intuition--Capturing
the Most Incorrigible--Evil Environment--Suffering a Necessary
Factor--Agony of Remorse--Eternal Hope.


XVII.

ETERNAL SEPARATIONS.

An Everlasting Pang--David and Absalom--Strained Ideas of Late Momentary
Repentance--King Solomon--King Saul--The Gracious Character of
Sympathy--George Eliot's View--A Strong Argument for Restoration--Heresy
of a Minister's Wife--A Minister's Orthodox View--Wonderful Goodness of
a Criminal--Where Will He Finally Go?--Our Very Imperfect
Friends--Glossing Over Their Faults When They Are Gone--Our Instinctive
Hope for the Worst--Restoration the True Solution--A Final Era of Joy.