The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-15
Rev. TaImage Expresses Himself
vigorously In Regard 10 Future
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New YORK, January lS.-kev. Dr.
T~almageihis morning preached on Hell,
in which he hotly believes. His text was:
"Thus saith the Lord" taken from eight
different passages, and repeated eight
different times. He said i made very
little difference what Dewitt Talmage
thinks on the subject Of hell, or what Dean
Stanley, or Canon Farrar, or Mr.. Frotll.
ingham thinks, Tor they were never in the
eternal world. lie cast aside all human
authority. There is only n being who
can'tell whether hell exists, and that Is
God.
AZ start out" he continued, with the
assumption that the Bible is true. II any
body choosea to deny that, | will argue
with him some other Sabbath. It being
granted there is a God, and that he Is
good, He gave some revelation or guide
10 man. What il that revelation? lsit
Shakespere, or JoSephus, Rollins His
tory or the Koran? II any n can point
out a better book than the Bible l will
preach from it. 1t is easy to deny, but
denials amount to nothing.
"I have no sympathy with a flippant
discussion Of the subject Of hell. II
should be approached, not in the spirit Of
criticism, but as a measure OF present
safety. We should find out what the only
authority worth anything says about II.
In Matthew is the statement: The angel
shall come forth 10 separate the wicked
from the Just, and shall cast them into a
furnace OF fire. Whatis the use Of Try.
ing to explain away the furnace and the
fire when they are there? II the state
ment is wrong, II is the Almighty who
has made q mistake. Paul says: THE
Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be revealed
from heaven with mighty angels In flames
Of FIRE, taking vengeance OF those that
know not God.' John says: 'Theyshall
be tormen.ed with ere and birthstone, and
they have their part in a lake which
bnrneth with FIRE and birthstone, and they
shall both be cast into a lake Of fire and
brimstone.' Christ says: Depart from
me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.
"But It may be claimed that all this lie
f~igurative. lam not opposed 10 saying that
Il may be so; but II there Is not to be fire,
there Is to be something rs severe as FIRE
-torments unmitigated. l prefer Gods
comparison, because l know God to be
right. God says: Fire and furnace He
may mean them literally. The Bible
says lire sixteen times; and says eshall
be plunged into il, except on n condi.
ton. Those who won't believe this should
at least be consistent, and pitch their Bi.
bles into the stove or the East river. Out
Of one hundred sermons ninety-eight are
on the love, mercy and kindness Of God;
and IL minister preach two on the In.
dignation OF God he is called sulphuric.
Our preaching needs reconstruction. So
recreant are our ministers that the peo-
pie don't know that the Bible speaks
more frequently OF the wrath OF God than
OF His love. II God were never angry
He would be imbecile.
"The Bible speaks twenty-eight times
OF Gods love, and sixty-one times OF his
wrath and indignation. God says City.
six times, in his most s%tupendous way,
that there is a hell burning now. Isay
Il il probable that there are some in this
house to-day who will sspend eternity in
that lost world. Nothing but the hand
of an insnlted, outraged, indignant God
keeps this whole audience from sliding
like an avalanche into it. But there Ia
no more need to 60 there than TO jump
into the geysers Of California or the
crater OF Cotopaxi. Gentlemen OF The
press, tell them that I say there Is no
need for any one to go there.
1.-THE Lord Jesus Christ, by one magni.
ticent stroke, made It possible for ali to
DO saved. He not only told us that there
is a hell, but lie went into II. He puthis
foot into the hottest hole Of It's darkest
furnace. II is cheap 10 get saved. II
won't cost as much as a loaf Of bread. II
a man has his choice Of heaven or hell,
and refuses heaven, l ask you as COM
mel and women II he doesn't
deserve to be lost. God knows lneyer
prayed over any sermon as l have done
over this. Yet how powerless | am to
make you see the truth as you will see 1t
when tho front gate Of eternity opens to
your spirit"