Those to whom 'it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,' should look with pity on the opposition of the ungodly. It is a small matter to be reputed fools by those who despise the wisdom of God. In that day, when the heavens and the earth shall flee away from the face of the Judge of the quick and the dead, the Atonement will not only prove the rock of the salvation of believers, but will also appear in the eyes of an assembled universe to have been the power and the wisdom of God. There will then be nothing to blind men's judgment; the allurements of sin will have lost their power; the approbation of our fellow-creatures will have ceased to be an object of the slightest importance. All will be fully occupied with their own concerns; each individual of an assembled world will find himself alone with God.

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