Eternal torment makes the judging futile and foolish. Universal reconciliation makes it fruitful and wise. No man would exert such power in order to turn his handiwork against him, unless he were demented. The color of the judgment throne depends upon the outcome of the judging. Eternal torment demands that it be black.
Reconciliation calls for white .
The lives of most men are drab with toil and trouble, disease and death. If this is to be followed by an eternity of agony, surely no hue but the deepest ebony could possibly be used to accord with the tragedies to be enacted there. It alone could properly depict the hopeless and horrible fate to which everyone who stands before it is condemned. But white is the color of light and righteousness and holiness. Black is the symbol of darkness and death.