Other Worlds, Other Redemptions

1901

The nature of God never changes, and from all eternity that holy passion glowed in the Infinite, and I think he was throwing out worlds into space and inhabiting them and more worlds for the application of that love. He may not have told the other worlds what he did for this world, as he has not told us what he did for them. I think the love of God was demonstrated in mightier worlds before our little world was fitted up for human residence. Will a man owning 50,000 acres of land put all the cultivation on a half acre? Will God make a million worlds and put his chief affection on one small planet? Are the other worlds and larger worlds standing vacant, uninhabited, while this little world is crowded with inhabitants? No, it takes a universe of worlds to express the love of God. And there are other ransoms and other rescues and other redemptions, as there may be other millenniums and other resurrection mornings and judgment days than those of our world. But in the space of six feet by five was comprised the mightiest evidence of God's love that any world ever saw or ever will see. Compressed on two planks joined together as a cross, there was enough agony there concentered, if distributed, to put whole nations into torture. That God allowed the assassination of his own Son for the rescue of our world is all the evidence needed that he loved the world. — T. DeWitt Talmadge.

—Piqua Daily Call, Piqua, Ohio, June 17, 1901, p. 6.