Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-17
TALMAGE ON HELL.

he Relieees Ia the Devil Of osss Daad!es.-
Last Sunday REV. DR.. Talmage, of New York
preached on Hell, in which hs hotiy believes
His text was: Thus saith the Lord taken
from eight different passages. and repeated
sight different times. He said it made very lit
tie difference what Dewitt Talmage thinks on
tho subject of He'll, OF Dean Stanley, or Canon
Farrar, OF Alr. rockingham thinks, Tor they
were never IN the eternal world. He cast aside
all human authority. There is only one being
who tell whether hell exists, and that Is
God.
II start cut" he continued, with the as
sumption that the Bible ia true. II ANYBODY
chooses to deny that, | will argue with him
some other Sabbath. 1t being granted there is
God and that he Is good. He gave some geye-
latiou or guide to man. What is that reyela-
tionI IL it Shakespeare, or Jossp hus, Rollins
History or the Koran Ii anyone can point out
better booi. than the Bible 1 will preach from
it. 1t is easy to deny, but denials amount 10
nothing.
u have no sympathy with a fippant diqcu.
sion of tbs subject OF hell 1t should be ep-
preached not in n spirit Of criticism, bat as
measure OF present safety. We should ind out
what the only authority worth anything says
about 1t. In Matthew is the statement: The
angel shal come forth to separate the wicked
from the just, and shall cast them into q fur
mace of FIRE. What is the use Of teying to e.-
plain away the furnace aud the nre when the,
are therei Ii the statement 10 wrong, it is the
Almighty who has made mistake. Paul saga:
The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be revealed
from heaven with mighty angels in flames OF
ire, taking vengeance On those that know not
God. John says; They shall be tormented
with fire aud birthstone, and they have their
part in lake which bIirneth with fire and
birthstone, and they shall both be cast into a
| lake of fire and birthstone Christ says De
part from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire '
But it may be claimed that all this is tigura-
tive. l a,n not opposed to saying that it may
be So bat if there IS not to be fire, there IS to
! be something as severe es fire-torments IN
mitigated. prefer Gods comparison, because
know God To be right God says: Fire and
furnace he may mean them literally. The
Bible says fire. sixteen times and says We will
be plunged in it except on enc condition.
Those who won't believe this should az least be
consistent and pitch their Bibles into the stove
or the East River. Out of one hundred ser
mons ninety eight ara ON the love, mercy and
kindness of God; and ii minister preach two
On the indignation of God, he is called sulphur
! lie. Our preaching needs reconstruction. So
recreant are our ministers that the people don /
know that the Bible speaks more frequently of
the wrath of God than of his love. If God
were never angry he woutd hs iFhbecitc.
The Bible rpeaka twenty -eight tina. Of
Gods love, and sirt gone timss OF his wrath
and indignation. God says fii;y-six times IN
his most stupendous way, that there is a hell
burning now. l say it il probable that there
! are some in this house today who will spend
eternity in that lost world. Nothing but the
hand of an insulted, outraged, indignant God
keepe this whole audience from sliding like an
avalanche into it, But there is 10 more need
to go there than to jump into the geysers OF
California or the crater Of Cotopaxi. Gentle
men OF the Pte6s, tell them that say there IS
no need Tor any Que to go there.
The Lord Jesus Christ, by one magnificent
stroke, made it possible for all to be savcd. He
not only told Us that there is hell but he went
into it. He put his foot into the hottest hole
! Of its darkest furnace. 1t is cheap to get
saved. 1t won't cost az much Us loaf of
bread. Ii man has his choice OF heaven OF
hell. and refuses heaven, ask you "a common
sense men and women ii he does not deserve it..
have over this. Yet how powerless am to
make you see the truth as you will see it whsn
the front gate Of eternity opens to your spirit "