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are kept alive not only to suffer but to sin everlastingly. They are to go on increasing in sin for ever and ever and ever in the universe of the All-holy God. One tests this by the ruling thoughts of Scripture. One thinks of God's holiness. One thinks of the golden thread of hope. One wonders what it means that Christ came to
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[1] and to destroy the devil (bruise the serpent's head[2]) and how one day
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God shall be all in all if straight opposite for all eternity shall be Satan's Kingdom of misery and sin. Surely Christ has not failed! And yet--and yet--what shall we say? And what shall we say of God's fatherhood? Shall we say as some do that as Judge He must do cruel things which as Father He would shrink from? God forbid! The Judge and the Father are one. Men would never use such sophistry about the character of God if it were put into plain words.
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Ye must ken, said a godly old Scotchman,