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. XI. THE ATONEMENT. Extent of the Atonement--The Dilemma of Universal Atonement and Partial Salvation--Human Systems of Truth--Methodist Theology--Tradition and Reason--Dr. Dale's View--No Divine Failure--Imperfection of All Theological Systems--"Sufficient but Not Efficient"--Undeveloped Possibilities--The Angel in the Apocalypse--Omnipotence Both in the Physical and the Moral Realm--The Short Epoch of Time--Advance of the Presbyterian Church in the United States--Individual Congregations--Hardening Effects of the Narrower View--The Softening Influence of Dreams--Divine Capacity of Suffering--Persistence of What Is Good--Good Men Who Are Not Christians--Insanity--Blind Tom. XII. A FEEBLE NOTE OF WARNING. The Creed of Eternal Torment--Do Ministers Really Believe It?--If They Do, Why Not Say So?--No Decisive Note of Warning--Definite Missionary Incentive Is Wanting--The Phrase, "Eternal Death," Often Used--Does It Mean Annihilation, or Eternal Torment, or What?--Vague Reference to Punishment Fosters Unbelief--An Age of Compromise--Professor Faulkner's Testimony--The Idea of Restoration Would Fully Meet the Difficulty--Honesty and Candor--Carlyle's Scathing Warning--Ultimate Fulfilment of Prophecy--Eternal Songs. XIII. PROPHECIES YET TO BE FULFILLED.