Different Processes—The Case of Saul—Changed in a Moment—No Violence to Human Freedom—The Case of Nebuchadnezzar—Sudden or Slow—Basis of Warning—An Object Lesson—Function of Suffering.
VIII.
THE INTERMEDIATE STATE.
Meagre Details—Good Reasons Why—Extent of the Universe—Future
Glory—Sin in Other Worlds—No Revelation—Future Abode of the
Righteous—Solid or Ethereal—Impossible Revelations—Present Duties and
Interests—Our Limitations—Necessity of Purification—Preaching to the
Spirits in Prison—Stages of Progress—The Law of Gradual Development.
IX.
THE SPIRITS IN PRISON.
The Descent of Jesus Into Hades—Singular Reserve of
Preachers—Purgatory—Dr. Gerhardt's Book—A Bodily Resurrection—The
Spirit World Requires a Spirit Body.
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.