As right is right and wrong is wrong, and right and wrong are not the same, so neither can their issues be the same.  “We have a robust common-sense of morality which refuses to believe that it does not matter whether a man has lived like the Apostle Paul or the Emperor Nero.”  We can never crush out the conviction that there must be one place for St. John, who was Jesus’ friend, and another for Judas Iscariot, who was His betrayer."[58] This must be,

        “Else earth is darkness at the core,
    And dust and ashes all that is.”

We must be sure that God has a right hand and a left, that good and evil are distinct, and will for ever remain so, that each will go to his own place, the place for which he is prepared, for which he has prepared himself, or our day would be turned into night and our whole life put to confusion.

So far, Christ’s words present no difficulty.  To many, however, it is a serious perplexity to find that Christ speaks of but two classes into which by the Judgment men are divided.  There are the sheep and the goats, the good and the bad, and there are no others.  To us it seems impossible to divide men thus.  They are not, we think, good or bad, but good and bad.  “I can understand,” some one has said, “what is to become of the sheep, and I can understand what is to become of the goats, but how are the alpacas to be dealt with?"[59] The alpaca, it should be said, is an animal possessing some of the characteristics both of the sheep and the goat, and the meaning of the question is, of course, what is to become of that vast middle class in whose lives sometimes good and sometimes evil seems to rule?

Now it is a remarkable fact that Scripture knows nothing of any such middle class.  Some men it calls good, others it calls evil, but it has no middle term.  Note, e.g., this typical contrast from the Book of Proverbs:  “The path of the righteous is as the light of dawn, that shineth more and more unto the noon-tide of the day.  The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.”  Or listen to Peter’s question:  “If the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?” In both instances the assumption is the same:  there, on the one hand, are the righteous; and there, on the other, are the wicked; and beside these there are no others.  The same classification is constant throughout the teaching of Jesus.  He speaks of two gates, and two ways, and two ends.  There are the guests who accept the King’s invitation and sit down in His banqueting hall, and there are those who refuse it and remain without.  In the parable of the net full of fishes the good are gathered into vessels, but the bad are cast away.  The wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest; then the wheat is gathered into the barn, and the tares are cast into the fire.  The sheep are set on the right hand, and the goats on the left hand; and there is no hint or suggestion that any other kind of classification is necessary in order that all men may be truly and justly dealt with.