things under Him, that God may be all in all."

That is what shall be. One day, somewhere in the far mysterious future
the "purpose of the ages" shall be accomplished. Evil shall have
vanished out of the universe for ever and God shall be all in all. One
day again it shall be as at the creation when "God looked on everything
that He had made and behold it was very good." How? We know not and
we need not know. We need not be able to assert dogmatically how He
will accomplish His purpose. We need not be able to assert that all
men shall be saved or that all who are not will be annihilated. But we
must be able with trustful hearts to assert God's love and God's power
and the final abolishing of evil, even though we can only do it with
the poet's vagueness:

At last I heard a voice upon the slope
Cry to the summit, "Is there any hope?"
To which an answer pealed from that high land,
But in a tongue no man could understand,
And on the glimmering summit far withdrawn
God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.

[1] 1 John iii. 8.

[2] Gen. iii. 15.

[3] _kolasis_--chastisement, correction, punishment (see Greek Lexicon).

[4] The same Greek words are used of His enemies' subjection to Christ
as of Christ's subjection to the Father suggesting that it would be of
the same kind.

[5] In other antinomies of Scripture, _e. g._, Man's free will and
God's foreknowledge, we have to take refuge in a similar belief.

III

HEAVEN

At last "I" has reached the goal. In that far future comes the glad
finale of human history, the realization of the eternal thought in the
mind of God from the beginning. As the unwritten play of a great
dramatist lies in his mind before it is uttered or acted, with every
problem solved and every contingency provided for--so we believe the
whole extended drama lay in the Eternal Mind--the path of struggle and
pain--the cross-currents of human will--the glorious conclusion of it
all. Nothing was an after-thought. Now at last Christ "shall see of
the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied." Aye--satisfied. It
was worth the cost. Worth the Incarnation of the Eternal Son--worth
the sorrow and the pain--worth being misunderstood and shamed and
mocked and scourged and spitted on and crucified--this final
satisfaction of His tender love. "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor
hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things that God
hath prepared. They sh