The ramifications of wilful sin have to be followed out, and its results remedied in sorrow and shame. The consequences of deeds of good are similarly permanent, and precede the pure soul and draw around it influences which welcome and aid it in the spheres. Life, we teach you, is one and indivisible. Eternal justice is the correlative of eternal love. Mercy is no divine attribute.
Pity is Godlike.
Mercy is human. We know naught of that sensational piety which is wholly wrapped up in contemplation, to neglect duty. We know that God is not so glorified. We preach the religion of work, of prayer, of adoration. We leave to foolish men, groping blindly in the dark, their curious quibbles about theological figments.