Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-04-26
Short Distance to He'll.

Father Walworth. Catholic Reviyalist.
in New York has been cnlghtening the cit
liens OF Manhattenvile, as to the locality of
hell and its distance According to this
divine it is in the centre Of the earth. The
~ Y. Eosning Post thus reports this jesuit
Professor of Spiritual Fire:
"He then inquired into the degree and
intensity of this heat which almost passed
the bonds of human conception. AS a
means of approximating TO result, how
ever, he referred to experiments which had
been made with thermometer in ArteSl-
an wells and deep mines. Here 1t had been
observed that with every fifty feet OF depth
one degree of Fahrenheit had been gained
consequently, at this ratio OF Increase, 1t
will only be necessary to penetrated the crust
of the earth twenty one miles, in order tc
reach state of heat in which the granite
would be found molten. Water bolls al
800 Fahrenheit. but it requires $500 :
to melt rocks This. therefore, was the
minimum of the heat of Hell, whose font
iers, therefore. lie twenty-one miles below
the service ofthe earth He also cited a
well. authenticated miracle, related by one
OF the Fathers, to the effect that God once
permitted a certain religious person to re-
ceive visit for a few moments from one oil
the damned. In the course of the inter
view; the latter thrust his hand into a vase
OF water in the apartment, which was there
by so powerfully heated; that a bronze can
Glestick having been placed in it, was i'm.
mediately melted. seiliuStrations would
afford perhaps u slight conception of the
fearful nature of the fires that were await
ing the guilty and unrepented,"
To all of which the Buffalo Democracy
interposes the following profane doubts:
eve ought, perhaps. to be disturbed a
the approximation, made by the Padre, o
of our newspaper establishment to the iron
tiers of the place of eternaltorment. Tween
ty-one miles is short distance. and down
wards into the earth is not at all that i'm
passible gulf betN cen good and evil. spok
en- OF in Scripture. But somehow or othe
we hnger this side of the dread considera
ton. by difficulty which we wish the goo,
Padre would engage, ana make solution OF
That heat that melted the bronze candle
stick-why does it not eat out the archie.
and hearth of the great central furnace, ant
burn through the whole crust Of the earth
Again: how can an organized body re
sist such adesruciive agency; how woult
itbe possible for Protestant Hereto whr
died ont of Jesuite baptism, and unprotect
ed by extreme JUNCTION, to be permanent,
exposed to temperature, which twenty
one miles from lis source, and dif'used thro
cold water, melts bronze? But the great
est hinderence to the Padres well-mean
alarm for Protestant wanderers. which ",
feel in view of that awfully thin partition
wall of twenty-one miles, which alone di
vides heretics from he'll, is an insupersbl
difficulty touching that self-same candle
stick and that hot water. Why did no: III,
water melt or burn the vessel it was in-o
was it laying round loose? And why di,
not the water pass of in vapor under tina
extreme of heat-instanjly pass off with al
explosion? Padre, why?"