THE FAR HEREAFTER: CHAPTER I
THE JUDGMENT
We touch lightly on the subject of
the FAR Hereafter which is still away in the future
for all humanity. One day the Intermediate Life
will close. The end of this age will come at
the Second Advent. And at this crisis our Lord
places the great drama of the Judgment and the final
decision of each man’s destiny. Whether
it will be a great spectacular event such as His picture
suggests, with all humanity assembled and the Judge
on the great White Throne, or whether His picture
is figurative, we cannot affirm. We can only
gather that it will be a final judgment and that it
will be a judgment according to finally developed
character, when men shall be clearly seen to belong
to the right hand or the left, the sheep or the goats,
to the wheat or the tares, to the good fish to
be gathered up or the bad fish to be thrown away.
Then come the final stages in the
history of humanity, Hell and Heaven.