New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-14
A CATHOLIC IDEA or HE'LL AND ITS
LOCALITY.

A correspondent Of The Ersning Post furaisbe, the
follow ing report Of curious lately delivered
by Reden ptorst Priest at M,nhsttanville near
this City:
at was delivered on The evening o, Sunday March
2sth and The church tasteful and appropriate edi-
fee was densely Gro Fced by deyout zuf ncs, CO
DC sed almost exclusively Of Irish Catholics re-dlug
10 the Leighborhood over whom The Rev. Arthur
Dnneliy, heir pss'or l. satd TO exercise most be-
nign and whoesOms Influence | was attracted
thrher in great eesurs froc curiosi 10 hear the
Rev Mr.. Wslsorth. the preacher of the evening, of
whose yea and eloquence the most favorable runor'
had reached me.
"Ttis gentleman who ie the son of the late di,.in-
fuithed Chancellor of the State ard | uuders ana.
recent CONVERT TO Romanism having been formerly
candida. for ia the The logical Seminary Of
he Episcopal Church in this CITY ia young man.
not above thirty yesrs OF sge should suppose with
a cure rather above the MIDDLE hight, slender bat
veil propUronec aud Gil eye Of singular bri!iancy,
slosine sih yea snd sioglepess of purpose and bis
style Of delivery at once eloqcInt and stu 'ere SC
cords well with bis appearance, depressing you With
the idea that the speaker possesses ms, thorough
con, icop o. the truth of what he ut'ers. lie ~as
dressed in the habit peculiar TO his order, long,
tight tug black gOSu or cassock, fastened at the
wsi.t b. sirdle, to which attached crucdx
ard rosary Of rich and curious workmanship aud
wore wbil- presciing black cap Of singular form
one Of the distinguishing features Of the gb of the
Redemptorists
,starce Of notes or snuecrjpt snd from tha inpul
sveness Of the delivery, veil a. the fearful topic
OF his discourse seemed cslucul tted 20 exert an
Iaordipsfy influence upon 100 elsa OF near
ers Il y HON il was addressed His subject WAS the
e1i-ter CO Of Hell place Of future punishment,
sno much Of bis discourse was devoted TO hxiOg 10
ltcslity AMI illustrating the torments TO which the
dsnped aou'd there be subjected.
ole b. eau by assuming that there was Hen fJr
tire eternal punshment Of unrepentsnt sinn4rs after
death. This was ca,dnsl point OF belief in rte
s...N
coptestltly proved by tbs Scriptures aud 70 bs "
fuuv reco tized a. the doctrine Of the trinity,
spy other es:ablishe5 article Of faith. Whre, then
be ssbed vss this Hell Was i near or remote
Wac it imaginary place, or was It bxed tangible,
msteiisl; place ct physical as veil as meu,al tor
u.Dt, Upon this point the Church had never fJr-
uaJly pssseo; while recognizing tie existence OF
He'll 81. had never imposed any belief IN lte oca ity
ppou Catholics 81 an article Of faith; bat he should
show them by the evidence of the Scriptures that,
practically, It's hell 10 inAg usTy place OF tor
inept bat fixed, actual rear a. hsad, oene.,h our
very feet, in The center Of this earth on "hlch We
/ teed
"Sone ad suppo.ej that one Of the distant planets
or fixed stars bso Oh appropriated by the Creator
for tue abode of The damned; others that Hell A. far
away, bey ond humsa eight sod moat beyoad human
conct pnou; but sill our precOncelNed notions oil II
| ue,e 81 yafisncs with these opinions The Scrip
! ,utes had invariably spoken OF Hell "a beneath us
no, above or fer removed. AZ Heaven was aooVe,
and the sous of TIE righteous were SAID 70 ascend 10
III.
He'll Thus Korsh and bis companions, WHO rebeled
scs, y the LORD in the wilderness went down bodily
ito the earth which opened to receive then; they
were not slated 10 oher sphers 70 receive t1er
nunisf m-ut bat went Osn alive into he pit or IN
/ otber sorcs descendec into Hell Oh the very spot
where they sin ned. Again the ri,h msn, tormenteo
/ in Hell, Tilted up bis eyes, and saw LazHus IN
Abraham's bosom, and 10 his euueaues ior succor
and ihterce. sion Abrshsm had replied between u.
and on there Is great gulf fixed. 80, too Christ
ia the parsbls Of the marriage feast said: 'sSe 81 n
and bind him hand and foot ard cast hin into u''7r
darkr ess.'
"He cited many other texts from Scripture 20 fix
this locality and dedlc.d as sconcasion thereto n
thsi He'll must necessarily be in the center Of this
earth in other way could our conceptions Of l's
position beneath US ss dthoed in the Scriptures, Dc
az. quately leszed oar de Of Whist is above might
te infinite spec ssef but there could be at one
'benesth and thai VS. tubteranean.
Having established tbs po,nt, and fIsd the To-
cay OF Hell ia the bow es Of the eirta, he proceeded
10 tquire INFO its nature aud physlc Il condition As
it hsa material petition itnecess try followed n 1t
il twas place % mater Al, bodily punishment where
the bodies ard limbs Of the wicked to be sab.
, i.ced 70 sn eternal to-nsnt. more acute than tbs
mo-t vi, id magp aiion coula hope 70 conceive and
| be should prove oy citations from the Scrp'ures-bY
The traditions ii the Cturcn I'D the writings of the
Fathers aid by rsiufal and physical phen9meaa and
TIE evidence OF philosophers and scsn'iie men-thst
~ punishment would be by fire. Of which the il,sri.
or OF tbs sobe ~as wholly composed.
! The scriptures had Invariably spoken Of Hell 81
srlsce of torment By fire: Depart from me, ys
cured into everlasting FIRE, prepared or tue devil
and Lie sneeis were the words OF Christ. The term
.Hel fire frequently occurred, and, ldeod, wherever
,efr,nce vss made the punishments 70 be inaieted
nnon the wicked IN Hell, il WAS siEsys described to
h. n, Ere H further Illustrated thus part OF ais 3
cour;e b, copous quotations from the rptIres and
hv e.t,aci, from writings by The IA hers: who as oo
ryeS bsd with singular unsni nifty given their tea
,nany 10 The doctrine be wished tosubs' initiate both
on tbi. point and generally with ARC 20 the loo Al
ty Of He'll ..,. - 40 s.-;,,r,s, and q,
,bs Fathers IL the Church, every good Caih2he
xhose filth was sincere, should yield implicit ODE
csree 10 this d,ctrne; hut In order TO silence any
Scubt. which might liDger W tie minds OF biz hearers
he .hould proceed TO show fIom the evidence OF em
mt natural philosophers, msny o! whom Indeed
wsre NO, even Christians, and from well kno an na
,sI rh.poueps that the interior OF the earn was 10
,s,e of intense inc.ndescence scarcely eonceivsDle
% human understandings In this eennectcn NJ
suoted extensively IRON Humboldts Noe nos' anc
TTsntioned volcanoes az an evidence OF the n7f,
nature of the eartss Interior lii,
The wonderful phenomena OF nature IN sncs
ool,n law. and frsg nents OF rock .ere eJec'sd WV
s,es, violence, accompanied with flames snd aens
,o,pnes II .u,oks il was nos well estsousaSa Yer
! mersly operibSs in the earn 'T''sSS 'of'Ns' WIG