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HEAYEY AND HELL.
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The Rev. Chauncey Giles, of the
Swedenborgian church, said last
evening that the common idea of
heaven is a vague, indefinite realm,
through which fit the shadowy and
unreal spirits Of human beings;
whereas heaven is a real, substan-
tial world, only different from this
world in that it is inconceivably
richer, more beautiful, and per-
fectly adapted to all the needs of
human beings. 1T is not a world
of darkness" said he, but world
Of light, Of beauty, and JOY, and is
filled with countless happy beings"
In a sermon on "Heayen and
HE'LL" in the University Chapel,
last evening, the Rev. Mr.. McCar-
thy said "All of us who are here
tonight are either in heaven or in
hell. To those in heaven l say, go
higher. To those ia hell l have no
advice to give, but | pray our
heavenly Father that they may stay
there. 1t is indeed true that some
people do not stay in hell long
enough for their own geod. They
get out too soon and have to go
back again."
After celebrating the idea that
hell is not a place, but a condition
in which one may be in this world,
as well as in the next, Mr.. McCar-
thy said: "Christ is not with that
man who would say of another, as
Talmage did the other day, that he
wished he were dead, believing that
in such a case he would be in hell"
The Rev. Mr.. Pullman, in the
Universalist Church of our Savior,
last evening, said that those who
profess to believe in eternal punish
ment cannot really do so, as by
their lives Of sin they give a practi-
cal denial of such belief. The Judge
who recently sentenced the mur.
derer of Josie Langmaid told him
that he need not expect to escape
the consequences of his sin by an
initiation, or by an eternal sleep Of
the spirit. Such a sequel would not
be justice on the partof God. I'm.
mediately after, the judge told him
that if he believed in Christ, and
accepted His atoning sacrifice, hi
guilt would be washed away, and
he would appear at the resurrection
in the white robes of innocence
Mr.. Pullman considered this to bt
teaching men that they may sill
and escape punishment, which il
debauching The public conscience
| All sinners, he said, will suffer {
future punishment OF remorse anC
of grief at their degradation, but
will have opportunities Of eleyating
their souls and rising to spifitua
happiness.
The Rev. William R. Alger, in
the Church Of the Messiah, las
evening, said that we are told tht
doctrine of material hell, a lakt
Of fire and birthstone, is based OF
the language of the bible. Wher
we try to show the unreasonablenes
of the doctrine we are met with tn,
assertion that God has declared
that there is a hell, and that W
must accept the statement as fac
not to be controyerted or denied
1t is our duty as reasonable being
to reject this. 1t is not a divin
revelation, but mythologica
growth. The substance of th
doctrine, the notion of a bcttomles
: PIT prepared for the eternal punish
ment Of the souls of sinners,
something wholly apart from me
rality and religion. 1t belong
u rather to the department Of phys
cal geography; and if there be an
y element of morality in it, it is pc
lice morality, and nothing highe
We are taught that the soul of th
/ wrong-doer is eternally banishe
!, from the presence Of Him who
y omnipresentl That the soul is to
tured for eternity, as though Go
were not capable Of managing th
'' world without the rigorous disc
pline Of the police magistrate infI