Five Discourses on Future Punishment
October sermons to the patrons of Grace Church, Kansas City, Missouri in 1888 by the Rector (Cameron Mann).
“...And the question put to him on entering the next world is not how much did you accomplish, but, in what spirit did you work. There are many first here who shall be last there. Their positions were given, not earned: they had high characters by inheritance or circumstance, not by resolve and toil. And there are many last here who shall be first there. For their movement was ever upward, though its beginning was at the bottom. We are responsible more for our purpose than for our attainment. If the purpose was noble, God will see that we carry it through; if not in this stage of existence then in the next. But that next stage is not one of probation: the probation is here.”
{ The photocopy version has a duplicate page, 26-27. A fix is underway. }