Light on God's Character.
HENRY CONSTABLE, A. M., Prebendary of Cork, speaking of the destruction of the wicked, says: “For myself, I cannot express my sense of the value I place on the view I now seek to impress on others. It has for me thrown light on God’s character, and God’s word, and the future of his world, which I once thought I should never have seen on this side of the grave. It has not removed the wholesome and necessary terrors of the Lord from the mind, but it has clothed God with a loveliness which make him, and the Eternal Son who represents him to man, incalculably more attractive. I am no longer looking for shifts to excuse his conduct in my own eyes and those of others, and forced to feel that here at least I could never find one answer to my object. I can look at all that he has done, and all he tells me he will hereafter do, and scanning it closely, and examining it even where it has most of awe and severity, exclaim with all my heart and with all my understanding,—‘Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.’” Let the reader contrast the above, and judge which most honors God; and which throws a gloom over his works and word. Prof. C. L. Ives, of Yale College, says: “The wicked, after the final judgment, are to be literally destroyed by the fiat of Him who Christ forewarns us ‘is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.’ Upon their final death we can look with comparative calmness, though we cannot upon their protracted life in suffering.”