The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-01-01
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HEAVEN AND HE'LL.

HENRY WARD BEECHER CREATES AN>
OTHER SENSATION.
In imminent danger OF passing wholly
from public notice, Mr.. Beecher has just
made another bid tor notoriety. OF
course his Brooklyn pulpit was the scene
OF this last exploit. Last Sunday morn
ing was the time. We cannot put away
from us the temptation to reproduce his
remarkable utterances Of that day. Not
alone because they were unique, startling,
blasphemous, but because it will help the
orthodox world to decide the hard old
conundrum, "Really loas Mr.. Beecher
gulty?' The telegraphic report says :;
New YORK, Dec. l6.--Mr. Beeclier
preached an unusual sermon to-day, ID
the course OF which he made statements
in substance as follows: He said that he
believed there were three persons united
in one Godhead, but, II anyone should
ask him why he believed, he would tell
him plainly that he did not know any,
thing about it, only that 1t was easier to
believe that which he thought conceded
with the doctrine Of the New Testament
than to contradict. Orthodoxy says that
men must believe in the Trinity or they
cannot come into the church. This is
called orthodoxy, but he called it
HEATHENIsM.
at Is not an easy thing" said Mr..
Beecher, "for an honest conscientious
man 10 know just what to preach and
what not to preach" It was no easy
matter TO remove the rotten timbcrs, and
replace them with sound ones, and not
stop the voyage Of the ship. IL was said
Adam was created perfect. 1t was also
said that Adam slnned, and that, in con-
sequence of that sin the whole human
race fell. The numbers of the human
race were actually beyond computation,
and for thousands, aud thousands, and
thousands OF years they had been born
into the world, had lived, and struggled.
and finally died, and gone-where! at
you tell me that they have all gone to
sweeping of mud into heaven would de,
file its purity. and
CANNOT ACCEPT THAT.
If You tell me that they have gone to hell,
then swear by the Lord Jesus Christ,
whom have sworn to worship forever,
that you will make an infidel OF me. The
doctrine that God has been for thousands
Of years peopling this earth with human
beings, during period three-iOurths of
which was not Illuminated by an altar or
charch, and in places where a vast pop
ulation of those people are yet without
that light, Is TO
TRANSFORM TIE ALMIGHTY INTO A MON
more hideOus than Satan himself, and
never worship Satan, though he should
appear dressed In royal robes and seated
on the throne OF jehovah. Men may say,
You will not 20 TO heaven A heaven
presided oyer by such a demon as that
who has been pcopling this world with
millions OF human beings and then sweep.
ing them oil into hell, not like dead flies,
but without taking the trouble even to
kill them, and gloating and laughing
over their eternal misery, Is not such a
heaven as want togo to.
THE DOCTRINE IS TOO HORRIBLE.
| cannot believe it. and | won't. They
say the saints in Heaven are so happy
that they do not mind the tOrments of
the damned in hell, but what sort of
saints must they be, who could be happy
while looking down upon the horrors OF
the bottomleSs pitt They don't mind
they're safe; they're happy. What would
the mother think Of the IL year old
daughter who, when her infant was lying
dead in the house, should come
DANCING AND SINGING INTO TIE pARLoR
and exclaim: oh! Pm SO happy moth
er. | don't care for the dead baby in the
coffin Would she not be shocked? And
so with this doctrine, And by the blood
OF Christ, denource it; by the woun DIS
in His hands and His side, abhor it; BY
His groans and agony, abhor and de-
nounce It as the most hideous nightmare
OF Theology"