#133 – POEM BY HELEN BRONTE

There lives within my heart,

A hope long nursed by me;

And should its cheering ray depart,

How dark my soul would be.

That as in Adam all have died,

In Christ shall all men live;

And ever round His throne abide

Eternal praise to give.

That even the wicked shall at last

Be fitted for the skies;

And when their dreadful doom is past

To light and life arise.

I ask not how remote the day,

Nor what the sinner’s woe,

Before their dross is purged away;

Enough for me to know,

That when the cup of wrath is drained,

The metal purified,

They’ll cling to what they once disdained

And live by Him Who died.

#135 – YUSEF – J. Ross Browne

“Oh, ye who are wrapped in the selfishness of a single idea! – ye who bode eternal destruction to others! Look out upon the world and learn that there are millions of human hearts as sincere and devoted as yours, who perceive a divine power great and good and merciful enough to save all, even to the weakest and most benighted.”

#137 – CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE – J.S. Taylor

I cannot believe that any being will exist in any part of the universe, so steeped in guilt and anguish (no, not Satan himself), as to be beyond the redeeming love and healing power of the Creator. 

Oh, no; on the contrary, I believe that in this mysterious, but divinely ordained conflict of good and evil, the powers of light are everywhere slowly but surely gaining the ascendancy over the powers of darkness, and that it will continue to be so, even unto the perfect day; yes, that perfect day, wherein all these blessed victories over sin and ignorance shall have been consummated, these transformations completed, and no solitary stain of folly, guilt, or grief, be left to mar the luster of the universe.”

#139 – BIBLE DICTIONARY – John R. Beard 

“The word translated ‘everlasting’ or ‘eternal’ expresses time, and not eternity. 

Punishment that does not end in reformation is vindictiveness, which cannot be ascribed to our Merciful Father. 

How then has it come to pass that belief in eternal punishment took root in the Christian church? 

Ancient doctors of the church, mislead by theoretical conclusions, declared that sin was an infinite transgression, to be atoned for only by an infinite expiation. The doctrine is the child of human reasoning.”

#141 – ONE RELIGION; MANY CREEDS – Ross Winans

“Our belief is that man, being governed and trained through time, a good and happy result must ensue to each individual. The idea of hell fire and eternal torment, when properly considered, is an idea that is alike blasphemous and illogical. 

God has ordained that every man shall sooner or later, recognize and appreciate His blessings. Nothing else is consistent with His determinate will. God is a God of infinite goodness, not of vengeance; to be loved; to be worshiped for love’s sake, not through fear of everlasting punishment. We believe that every man will eventually love Him, and strive more and more to serve Him.”