The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-05

THE DYING DOGMA.
Some Posted Remarks on Everlasting Punish.
ment
As a bis Of personal experience by a
lady oflage brains and large heart, the
following extract from a letter to the
New York Tribune by Miss Catherine E.
Beechsr deserves careful and thoughtful
reading:
In Bsxter's Saints Rest" given to
me when l was vainiy trying to love
God, it is written that the torments of
sinnerwill be universal The liquid
fire will prey on every psrt-the eyes
viii betortured with sights of horror, the
ears with howls and curses of companions
in torment, their smell with fumes of
birthstone, and no drop OF water shall
cool their tongue, no respite relieve
their sgonies. President Edwards, in a
work given me to lead me to love God,
says the saints in glory will see the
sutfeIi1gs OF the damned with no
grief, but rather with rejoicing. They
will not be sorry for them, but will be
excited by joyful praise. Dr. Emmons,
whose preaching heard when sorrowing
for friend supposed to have died unre-
generate, taught the happiness of " the
elect" in heaven will in part consist in
watching the terments of the damned
and among them will be their own chill
dren ard dearest friends; and yet they
will sing ballelujah, praise the Lord.
Ny fathers friend, DR.. Gardiner Spring,
of New York, said that when an angry
God undertakes to punish, he will con-
vince the universe that he does not grid
himself in vain. 1t will be glorious
when he who hung on Calvary shall
cast those who have trodden his blood
under their feet into furnace of fire,
where shall be weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth. My fathers friend,
DR.. Nehemiah Adams, of Boston, SAYS it
is to be feared that the forty-two chill
dren who mOcked Elisha are now in
hell. President Edwards, in his
sermon Sinners in the hands of an
angry Cod says you cannot stand
an instant before an infuriated tiger
what then, will you do @hen God rushes
against you in all His wrath ?'' Spurgeon
of England says "at the day of judg-
ment thou wilt have twin hells; thy
soul sweating drops of blood and thy
body sufused with agony" DR.. Talmage
OF Brooklyn, paints the miseIies OF hell
in a similar language. The Methodist
Christian Advocate represents that this
denomination, on yearly average, gives
emily 81 cents for each person to save
zoe, 600, 900 brothers and sisters from
wading chin deep through the torments
of eternal death. The biographer of
president Edwards says that when
preaching on the dangers of hell, at
times, the whole congregation arose
shifting their breasts, weeping and groan-
ing. My father rejected the idea of
literal fire and birthstone torments, bat
I once heard him in Cincinnati describe
the miseries OF the wicked shut up
together with all their horrid passions,
and l should have been affected,
as were the hearers of president
Edwards, had 1 not escaped by leaving
the church, as did my sister, Mrs. Stowe.
For the benefit of those who claim
that the doctrine Of materialistic hell
is no longer taught, we present the fol-
lowing passages from a book written by
Rev. j. S. Furnis, and published in
England few years ago by ecclesiastical
authority ''for the instruction of the
young"
We know how far it is 70 the middle
of the earth, it is just two thousand
miles; SO if hell is in the middle of the
earth it is four thousand miles to the
horrible prison of hell. Down in this
place is terrible noise. Listen to the
tremendous, the horrible uproar of
millions of tormented creatures, mad
with the fury of hell Oh the screams
of fear, the groans of horror, the
yells of rage, the cries of pain,
the shouts of agony, the shrieks of
despair, from millions on millions
There you hear them roaring like
lions, Kissing like serpents, bowling like
dogs, and waiting like dragons. There
you hear the gnashing of teeth and the
fearful blasphemies of the devils. Above
all you hear the roar of the thunders of
Gods anger, which shakes hell to its foun-
dations. But there another sound.
There is in hell sound like that of many
waters. 1t is as if all the rivers and oceans
ofthe world were pouring themselves with
great splash down on the floors of hell.
sit then really the sound of waters 1t
is. Are the rivers and the oceans of the
earth pouring themselves into hell? No.
What is it, then? 1t is the sound of
OCEANS of tears running down from mill
lions of eyes. They cry forever and ever.
They cry because the sulphur
ous smoke torments their eyes.
hey cry because they are in darkness.
Rey cry because they have left the
BEAUTIFUL heaven. They cry because the
sbsrp fire burns = x The roof is red-hot;
the walls are red-hot; the floor is like
thick sheet of red-hot iron. See, on the
middle of that red-hot floor stands a girl.
She looks about sixteen years of age. She
has neither shoes nor stockings on her
feet. The door of this room has never
been opened since she FIRST set her foot
on this red-hot floor. Now she sees
the door opening. She rushes forward.
She has gone down upon her knees
upon the red-hot floor. Listen, she
speaksl She says: "I have been
Standing with my bare feet on
this red-hot food for years. Day and