Along with this let us remember that God's operations are not confined to the brief span of time. These few fleeting years are a very short epoch in eternity. Here we see but the beginning of His plans; in the next life we may see the fruition of them. But we may believe they will unfold along the same lines. What is grace now will be glory then. What is limited now we may well believe will then be universal. Consider also the wonderful capacity of development with which we have been endowed. We are really made in God's own image, both mentally and morally. In this world of sin and toil and sorrow we almost forget our divine birthright. But when sin and toil and sorrow are done away, what amazing strides we shall make, and to what intellectual and spiritual heights we shall soar. And is it to be supposed that having made us with such capacities, God has no better use for us than to be cast out of His presence eternally, and that we shall become demons? Surely infinite love and power have something better in store. Did I say power? Yes, power, with infinite love and wisdom behind it. What will this triumvirate of infinities not accomplish? The power of God in the material world gives us a strong suggestion of His power in the moral world. Can we then think of such an utter failure as eternal torment as being the ultimate doom of the creatures that God has made in His own likeness? Another consideration is this, that there is some way of salvation provided for infants. That is acknowledged now on all hands. Time was, and not so long ago, that it was accounted very orthodox to say that there were infants in hell "not a span long." But it is not so now. It is admitted that by some unknown process all infants are saved. Now if there be a method of saving infants, is it so hard to conceive that there may be a method of saving adults? To be sure, the adults may be great sinners, and so the process may radically differ. But the minds of very young infants are a perfect blank at first, and so every idea that they require to fit them for the better world has to be communicated. So there must be some process of education. It is easy then to conceive of a process of education for adults, combined of course with such discipline as each case may require. It is reasonable to conceive that some will pass through that intermediate stage without any suffering, except such as may come with larger visions of truth. It is equally conceivable that others will endure pains and penalties unspeakable before they yield. But they will yield at length; divine love will conquer.