The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-22


copy of it will be submitted your disposal after it shall
have been repeated in compliance with request Sabbath
| evening next. Very respectfully yours
| ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.
Messrs. M. N. smyth NJ S. Edwards etc.
| A Discourse Oh Hell:
Deigered By rsques IN tas Presyterian Chnrch At the
9prH ST. 1875 and repealed b. request, at the same
place the 10TH ,aprH, 6y tie REV ALEXANDER CAMP
BELL, rcpty to Discourse the same subject by
the REV. THEODORE CLAPP dettcered the 1871 .Harch
| preccding
Matt %. whooever shall say Thou foo shall be ii,
danger OF hell fire.
These words hearers, presented to you this time
subject Of discourse at an urgent request from without
this church, from quarter of Intelligence and responsibility
such that to disregard it might like Shrinking from
that the request was prompted BY the sppeafanee pint
dcourse on ths same text recently delivered in the First
| Congregational Church OF this city.
Now brethren, all enter upon the consideration Of
this solemn and momentous subject in the love of truth
and the fear Of God May the sentiment of united prayer
be- that this holy book OF God may not be soed by the mpu
ny of our hands and that the clear mirror of heavens
vealed truth, which reflects the image OF the godhead,
not be oscured by the breath with which profess 10
he i O the bu n T lowe M
alluded to- 1t is maintained that the punishment OF those
nay in eir reecserg and rest"rafion to heaseng and
immortal hiss This doctrine Is our main design at pre-
The design of our Lord in the passage of Scripture be-
fore u.s. undoubtedly IS to dter some OF the great prinfl
rubbish Of Jewish abuses and to exhibit them before the y-
harmony of their proportions In the time OF our Savious
pilgrimage earth the Jews indeed retained some of
their ancient and holy religion They cognized its existence
only far it appeared in the oseyances of forms and
ceremonies whilst He pursued upwards TO ncpient and
secret moyngs in the heart They would deter
from the hpd crime Of murder only by warning them OF the
ter fool by teaching them that the o. fraterna atec
great principle Of love on which hang all the law and the
prophets and therefore brings into peril the whole eternal
he disqualed-yea wholly ncapacitaed for the society
and the empIoyments of the New Jerusalem, for,
Love tunes the harps Of all the b I above,
Heaven harmony is everlasting love-
As he thus unprepared for the bright world of saved sp
ts he in danger Of the dark world of the lost Having
hI OF holy W in WITCH our p text onnd and ao
having described the character of him who calls his brother
H. To the doom threatened in the text He'll fire
is indeed word Of fearful import. But to the bright Chris
Of any good because he lives the neglect of his
duty in the egpabe Ignorance Of his privileges And if
discharge OF duty which will cause him to
NJ read his title clear;
10 mansions In the skies"
he viii assuredy bless God forever and forever and ever for
OF his wanderngs. And also if the word should carry
misguided race, that be found shining against God
and his fellow man. who created in the image of God
SAINT and the peaceful ways of wisdom; such one will
the days Of bis oeence and ebeon his earH the
terrible sound OF hell If consult the members of the
ess that with unutterable anguish produced their minds
by this terrible name, they were induced 70 pause in their
downward course of nquty, to consider their and to
who abundantly pardoned And if could consult the
holy who had hence to the upper world should
hear the response Then if the he designaes
of unnieabe ANXIETY gloom and depa to sa any
affirmed by the respected brother OF the Congregational
have thus far neglected their duty both God and man. and
who are it may be- unwilling to iosake their sirs
the fears this terrible word he may keep hold of them
until every wicked man iorsake his ways and
m MS
1t duty, but justice to the of truth,
beeu f OF @
single sin single SPECIES Of crime OF M single
Take siderable number of preachers who in
their sermons the word le' means of warning trans
greSsor and who repudae the doctrine which it usually
understood TO convey and then take the number of
clergy who maintain the contrary doctrine, and who faith
fully OF the eternal oil the
OF the lmpentent- and then count the number OF conversions
and abandoned habits such drunkads debauchees
berS and persons OF proane and dishonest lives men OF
doings, and now acknowledged 10 be reformed men
After making such examination as this man OF can
preachers eNe the greater influence the minds otwcked
men, and also, which doctrine is the more efficient in the
worst of depavty This examination has been made
by engaged in the for than quarter OF
s1 % n with nean na OF o9 y
cosntry; and his report is, that whist hundreds OF CONVEX
transsre have been Faithfully warned to flee from the
wrath to come he surprised to discover that although
there found goodly number OF moral intelligent and
highly respectable hearers and respectable professors OF e
gon he has yet to to hear OF the first case the
reformation of VIGOROUSLY bad man effected through the
pears strange One would suppose that with the denial
of the doctlne OF eternal future etrbutlon there still
the OF least few, OF the worst OF
moral urptude This failure cannot arise from their want
either talents of earningey fair proportion
OF both Nor for lack of hearers, for wicked generally
prefer their preaching 10 any other he secret Of the matter
from the bible the doctrine of eternal Judgment, with the
other they generally also endeayo to dves the saviour OF
Men OF His Supreme divinity. ana Ills OF Its
divine glory. Whist with one hand they attempt TO eHn
guish the unextinguhae flames OF perition. with the
other they attempt quench the sun OF righteousness from
the moral heavens And whilst they thus abolish the Justice
also abolish His love appears IN the cross OF His coequal
the gospel God than the hewn block like the living oak
1t image shaped after mans device devoid OF the great
nothing his fears, and comparatively little TO
awake his love. And this not the truth the whole
true gospel to mans of what appears good and his ha
tired OF what evil nor 10 his hopes happiness
signal manner His seal such preaching And hence
the p1 ct n tho ose may eoe the
OF philosophy and the figures OF eloquence yet through them
from mued drum Men Of such theology although they
amue and interest their hearers soatmef by dleo o
which they inflicted themselves W lille they remained
their compassion by showing how they have peried
their fortunes and their fame by bursting their ecclesiastical
men quite martyrs in the Of truth And although
they thus by turns make their hearers both laugh and
weep. yet with all this there converted God
: here. The gospel in such place detormed
mutIlaed body without soul There IN the preaching
OF snch theology wanting the greatsnove principles essen
ta 10 the stirring up OF moral energies oil the sinner
heart The preacher has little motive 10 preach except to
admons hearers not TO be alarmed the fear OF hell
and the sinner has motive to reform except the desire o
becoming comfortable the present life inasmuch as
he has been well Instructed by his preacher that good or bad
holy OF unhoy righteous unTghteOu he sure OF no I'M
Happiness IN life come. And he perhaps supposes
himself as wicked he will be. and Notwithstanding
experiences his greatest enjoyment the practice OF
and preacher also taught him to believe that ali
the msees ever to be endured account OF sin are fell
whist engaged IN lis here; and rejecting that ms
condition here quite toerabe and likely become any
he feels strong reform his morals and
no very great epRgnance to remaining as he Such theo