Article August 23, 1913 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from G. Stanley Russell

[The Outlook.]

Heaven is not a place to be had for the asking; it is not a reward to be given even by the hand of God; its gates do not open as an easy refuge for those who are escaping from their sins. It is profoundly significant, though it has been often missed by theologians, that the loving Christ who laid down his life for men promises to deliver them from their sins, not from the consequences of their sins. ... To find one's way into heaven out of harmony with its spirit would be to bring one's self face to face with the whole infidelity of one's life, with violated laws, blighted hopes, lost opportunities, neglected privileges. There will be no need of any other judgment than the judgment of one's conscience in the day when every man will face the secrets of his own heart. Heaven, which is bliss to those who can bear the awful light of its purity, would be torture to those to whom it would be one terrible reproach.

[Rev. G. Stanley Russell, M.A., in The Christian Commonwealth.]

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