Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1855-05-17


Having established this point and fixed the
locality of He'll in the bowels of the earth he
proceeded to enquire into its nature and physi-
cal condition. AS it had q material position,
it necessarily followed that it was place Of
material bodily punishment, where the bodies
and limbs of the wicked were to be subjected
to an eternal torment, more acute than the
most vivid imagination could hope to conceive,
and he should prove by citations from the
Scriptures, by the traditions Of the Church
and the writings of the Fathers, and by natu-
r;l and physical phenomena and the evidence
Of the philosophers and scientific men, that
this punishment would be by fire, Of which the
interior Of this globe WAS wholly composed.
The Scriptures had invariably spoken Of
Hell as place Of torment by fire "Depart
from nrc, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, pre-
pared for the devil and his angels were the
words Of Christ The term " Hell fire irc-
uucntly occurred, and, indeed, wherever refer
cl.cc was made to the puniShmcnts to be initlc-
ted upon the wicked in Hell, it WAS always
described to be by fire. He further illustm-
ted 'nl$ part Of this discourse hy copiouS quo
ta;on> from the Scriptures, and by extracts
from writings by the Fathers "ho' he opSct-
we'd, had, with singular unahlnIty, gwen tleir
testimony to the doctrine he wished to SubStan-
tiatc, both ON this point, and generally with
regard to the locality Of Hell.
. Such being the evidence Of the Scriptures
and "i the Fathers OF tie Church, every %""a
q Catholic whose faith WAS sincere, should Nlclu
imrlicit obedience 10 this dnrtrnr: but in or
der to <iclcc any doubts which might lingcr
in the mind If his hearers. he should proceed
to show from the evidence Of eminent natural
,,h;l,,>onbrr> many Of whom indeed were not
even e. hri>,i,u>, and from wcl-known natural
.,Lcn,u,ou, that thc inferior Of tbc rartl, WIS
II , .,tr nf Intense iucaudrSccrcc scarcely
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Had n"; numerous instances Of this berl
witnessed in the terrible earthquakes, 50 trc
uurntlv occurring in South America and IN
equatorial regions What were these but
evidences of the irail structure Of this solid
crust on which We dwell, which is continually
cracking. under the influence Of intense heat
beneath; Nor were these phenomena local OF
isolated in their nature but extended over the
Whole sphere. Thus the Great earthquake OF
Lisbon in 1lo6, in which the ground had
opened and flames hat burst iorth, had been
distinctly 1elt over many parts OF Europe III
A>ia' ahd even III THIS country On Lake Ohta'
no A@ain' INC NOT springs swelling up u inc
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bounds OF hulnan conception. AS means ol
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