The New York herald., 1878-01-13


theoIogans who have spoken or written on this qres
ton would have US believe, Is equally clear DR.. Far
rar, liko many others on his side Of this question,
bases his disbelief IN the eternity Of punishment upon
the critical analysis OF the Hebrew aud Greek words
translated "dcad," ''cternal," 'scvcriasting" &c.
DR.. Hugh Miller Thompson, formerly Of this city, but
now OF New Orleans In letter Of his published in the
Democrat Vi that city, agrees with Canon Farrar IN
his critical scholarship, but Insists that the doctrine
any grammatical or lexlcographcal criticism
tain words The doctrine OF eternal punishment does
not stand, no says on tue criticism OF one text or
score; II s rooted in the nature OF God and As
long lives he will bear the penalty Of his
II the doctrine OF 'the unity o law" be admitted AS
long as men they lost in this world ana
In all worda Whlo DR.. Thompson admits his belief
IN Tho possibility OF rope aud restoration IN
luture iie, lie believes also, he says, In
sucn = thing rs hxhy OF moral charac-
ter that the time comes when there can be change,
that 'the ilihy Is hithy still" RcstOrationism he
ever belicvo In material punishment Tor spiritual
beings ''In n spiritual world In u spiritual Dody,"
he says there no sical or material pain pleas
But whatever IN the spiritual world corresponds
to .vhe that mover dies, TO ''tne hrc that Is
never quenched," to 'tbe outer darkness In whch Is
weeping aud gnashing VI tecth"-whatovcr tho dread
realities be which those material symbols signify
those the sinner suffers, ana that ON rational and
Scripiurai grounds ho believes equally. But more
over, the Doctor says, that different as
sinners their states Will be different anu each Will
reap MS he has sown and confess the dead apples
he is feeding on his own planting and gathering.
Each mans state, he believes. will DO the natural
lawful, logical aud necessary outcome oi his own de-
pravity.
BISHOP wiLMERs oPISoIs AND FAITH.
Bishop Wilmer, In bis annual address before the
Diocesan Council Of Louisiana, takes substantially
the same Wow, except that without expressing thc
idea In worus the Bishop holds 20 tho materially Of
the punishment by fire. He says the world Is now on
IRE ana has boen Tor ycars--nre raging around US
and beneath Us unquenched anu, for aught we know,
uDquenchablc. There Is NO sensible loss or disntc.
grafton OF the substance which keeps alive the ama,
go APPALLING 80 irresistible, 80 universal and II he
might add, SO everlasting Proof 10 the contrary
thore Is none. That unseen power which feeds these
volcanic fires, slumberIny IN the depths below. who
shall stay His hand, says tho Bishop, II IL should
stretch forth into eternity or rebuke Him In HIS
wrath saying "What doest thouf" The Bishop iur
ther shows that remors0 cannot be the eternal
punishment OF the sinner, Tor tho good arc
those who have tho clcarcst perception oi right aud
wrong, and who weep and mourn their sins with
deepest contrition While The audacious sinner bc-
comes by certain law OF SIN hardened aud Incapable
OF mental remorsc He s past loeling or, as is OK
pressed IN SCRIPTURE his conscience is scared as with
hot iron. Archbishop Perche, Of the Catholic Church.
who was interNcwcd BY reporter oil tho New Orleans
Democrat broadly affirmed The existence OF material
ho that the soul Will suiIcr material punishment and
that there Is q real fire holi
DEFINITIONS or HE'LL
Here are definitions Of he'll BY shres Ohio ministers,