He was almost afraid to hear the answer, lest it should convey a germ of the dreaded heresy, and yet how eager he was to know what Brother Emmanuel really thought.
"It is not for me to say who will and who will not be saved," he said, slowly and thoughtfully; "and we are expressly told that there will be punishment for those who fall away from the faith.
Yet we are not told that error will be punished with everlasting death.

And there be places in Holy Scripture which tell us that 'whoso believeth and is baptized shall be saved;' and heretics believe that Christ died for the world.

It says, again, that those who love the Lord are born of God; and shall they perish everlastingly?
My son, the mercies of God are very great; from end to end of this book we are told that.

Knowing so much, need we ask more?
With Him rests the judgment of all mankind.

He alone can read the heart.