7/19 And if we could stop with this--be content with saying 'God is better than the best man'-- we should have a formula permitting endless growth, even as He permits it to us. God has been more generous to us than the Church has been to Him. While it has limited Him to that god of bloody sacrifice conceived by a barbaric Jew, He has permitted us to grow so that now any man who did not surpass him morally, as the scriptures portray him, would be a man of inconceivable malignity. We have come, indeed, into a sense of such certain brotherhood that we know your hell is a falsity. We know--a knowledge of even the rudiments of psychology proves--_that there will be a hell for all as long as one of us is there_. |