The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-04-20
IocAIITY OF THE INTERNAL RE-
CIONS,

ClONO'
Discoveries in science create but il''ie ''"
satiou in an age .,......I - -,
"when every year and month brings f'r'n ~"
-, ,.vsl,,ion in polemics has recently been
m,ds from the pulpit, which, ia edn De esT-
flied, will prove II source o. no'' N,Iwn,,h =
TO all good Christians. Fa'nei " ''...',,,
,ho lots Chancellor OF this St"te'a new
-, % Romanisrn, who, for his ZEAL mas
I,tely been promoted from the ranks =" Inc
..;o.,bood claims to have discovered Ine 10
i.,itv and the temperature Of Hell! tie has
t,,ocrd us with the particulars OF It's topogra-
nbv. photography, and geological structure
and strangely enough, has taken certain truths
in natural science as the basis Of his super
natural theory. These, he has curlously
dovetaiied with Scripture quotations and
m alleged Roman Catholic miracle or two,
ard from this heterogeneous evidence, he III
fers the existence of place Of physical and
mental torment, considerably more horrible
than the "bottomess pit" Of any Protestant
sect. At the risk Of throwing our readers
into commissions, we deem il our duty to IN
form them that the frontier of this region OF
ever blazing fire and bubbling sulphur, is on
~ twenty one miles from the soles OF their
feet, and that the temperature about the edg-
es, where II is cool and pleasant in compare
son with the heat of the interior, is, t'o0 thou
sand degrees If Fahrenheit.
This interesting announcement, so very
important, if true, was made by Father Wal
worth. in the Church of the Annuncation
ofour most Blessed Lady" in Manhattanville'
on the evening OF Sunday, the24th of March.
This exemplary Embassadot of II God OF
Love aud Mercy, commenced his sermon by
promising to show that He'll was no magma
nv scene of torture, shut fixed, actual, near al
hand, beneath our very feet, in the centre OF
dhs earth on which we tread" The ide'
entertained by some superficial persons, that
Tophet might be located in one of the plan
cts or fixed stars, was he, assured his audi
cnce, unscrptura and absurd. Do,cn-no'
up. nor sideways, nor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ahe word uniformly used in the Scriptures to
indicate the direction 10 which the souls Of
sinners me propelled.
Having established this point, and fixed
the latitude and longitude of Pandemonium
to his own entire content, il not to the salts
faction of hearers, the holy man proceeded t.
describe the nainre and physical condition oI
the Internal antipodes. He mildly insisted
chat a. Hell xas place Of material punish
ment, it was necessary deduction from The
premises, that the bodies and limbs Of sinners
and especially the mere sensitive parts there.
OF, woald be subjected eteraaiy to fiery tor.
ments, more acute than the most vivid mag
ination coud cot.seire, ~IEAe the stiBgs OF
conscience and the ag0nies Of remorse would
simultaneously rend and tear and cruelty the
soaL Having finished this entieing picture
OF the reception prepared for the wicked, and
heightened it with some extra touches, which
we omit, the Reverend Father candeseeaded
70 give his data for stating the distance be-
tween Tophet and New York, aud tho sur
face Of the earth generally, at twenty-one
miles In boring Artesian wells, he said, il
had been found that one degree of heat was
gained for ever fifty feet Of progress ednse'
quently, at the same ratio of increase, TEN
ptfature capable of melting granite, would be
obtained at the depth Of twenty-one miles
end at this point the internal territory com
fnenced: OF course, by parity Of reasoning
the deeper sinner Owed, the hotter he mus,
fine il, ind in the midst of u Temperature, in
which the most imcombustible substances
say asbestoes and "--'s Champion Safes
would melt instantaneouy, the flesh, bones,
mucles, tendons,and iibres OF the condemned
would roast everlastingiy without bring con-
sumed! This was precisely the position ia
ken by the good Father, although we have
Slightly ut vafiafte with reason and philoso.
ply; but what have these TO do with the fire
and birthstone theory .y
The Artesan experiment was not the only
fact upon whcit the Father relied in guaging,
thernlomctrically, the fercency Of internal
heat. He stated further, thrt on certain
occnssion, pious Catholic was permitted to
receive visit from one of Satan's subjects,
and that this overheated individual, by mere.
ly dipping his hand into vase Of water, made
II so very hot that it Immediately melted a
bronze candlestick! This incombustibe fire.
brand of n fellow, does not seem to have
cooled down more than degree or two in
performing the journey of twenty.one miles,
from Terra del Fuego to Terra Firna. Per-
haps the crust interposed between the two
regions is somewhat thinner than the priest
supposes-who knows! We should be I'M
willing to descend more than FIVE miles for
fear of accidents. Dead reckonings areso often
incorrect. t
WHAT is A Tos WsIGHT !-1'he Supreme