Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker.

  • Richard Dimsdale Stocker
Date:
1910
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Credit: Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on his own showing, is responsible for so much misery and suffering ? Things as they are, Dr Momerie frankly admits, are wrong. Nor shall the devil be requisitioned to explain their un- satisfactory aspect. Evil is here. God permits, consents to it. Yet—such is Dr Momerie’s logic—if only that God can prepare another state for men hereafter^ he will still be a good God ! He will still be entitled to man’s love and veneration ! Would he } Would a being who permitted sin and suffering here, even if he ordained the most glorious state imaginable for man in another world, be a good god, a worship- ful god } I will not go into the question of why suffering is permitted (though, if I am to be candid, I must say that, so far as I can see, it is not God’s wisdom that allows it, but man’s ignorance and folly). But, assuming that sin and suffering are in the ‘‘nature of things,” and are “providentially ordained,” are we to say that, simply because an almighty being can show his power by miraculously creating a heaven afterwards^ he is therefore a beneficent and good God ? Surely not. Surely any being
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