srepresentations would have loved
Him if they knew Him as He really is, do you think that no one is
helping them to understand Him now? Can we doubt that somehow within
the Veil they will learn more fully of His tender love? And judging
from what we know of God's methods on earth, is it unreasonable to
think that they will learn it from their brethren? True, God might
help them by means of the angels. But in God's dealings with men's
souls on earth not angels but men were the helpers He gave them. Even
in the stupendous miracle of the conversion of St. Paul it was a man
(Ananias) whom God sent to help him.

Section 2

Here comes an interesting question about the doctrine of Election. To
the generation before us it was a horrible doctrine clashing with all
sense of fairness or right. Men said it meant that God decreed certain
men to eternal Heaven and certain others to eternal Hell by His own
arbitrary will. The stern revolt of Conscience at length sent us back
to study our Bibles more carefully. We found that in the first
recorded case of election Abraham was called _for the good of others_
"that in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed."

We saw reason to believe that Abraham's case was a type of all other
elect--_elect for the service of others_. We found that the Bible
consistently and throughout affirms that when "God calls or separates
one man to Himself it is for the good of other men; that when He
selects one family it is that all families should be blessed; that when
He chooses one nation it is for the welfare of all nations; that when
He elects and establishes a church it is for the spiritual benefit of
the world. No man, no family, no nation, no church possesses any gift
or privilege or superior capacity or power for its own use and welfare
alone but for the general good." So we learned that God's word is true
in spite of our stupid misunderstanding of it and that this doctrine of
Election rightly understood is one of the noblest things in the whole
Bible.

Now comes my question. Are God's elect in the Hereafter life still
"_elect for the service of others_"? Are those loving souls who are
joyfully accepting Christ's service here,--destined for a still more
glorious service in this ministry in the Unseen--the "first-fruits" of
a great harvest which through them the Lord will reap in the Hereafter?
Will some be just saved, saved so as by fire, saved "by the ski