The New York herald., 1878-02-25
FIRE OR FANCY.
Bottom Facts on the Great
Subject OF Hell.
EFT ERNAL MISERY.
Rev. Mr.. Hatfield on the Character OF
Future Punishment.

Rev. Mr.. Hatncd preached at the Eighteenth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church on "the Twenty.tnira
1re and the fire elsewhere" he said ''Behod
how q small spark created SO big hre." spark is
q very little thing dropped from match, but
unchecked 10 enough to set all New York in blaze.
A little boy carelessly dropped spark in heap
OF shayings and $50, ,000o 900 OF property in Boston
were destroyed There is great harm also in tam
pering with little sins, little fasehood, say any
little deviation from tho right TO The left brings ulti
malely no end Of calamity. man takes trins OF
money that does not belong 10 MN, intending 10
speculate with It IN Wall street and return when he
Is successful in his spocuaton but Satan steps and
tempts him 10 try mis- success larger scale aud
finally hc winds up IN bankruptcy Or Sing Sing
One glass OF intoxicating liquor Is little thing; but
just ono glass has been enough TO overthrow the
proudest inteiects and destroy tho happiness o.
tire families Tho Duke OF Orleans, on "trip from
Paris, once took glass too much IN a convvia! mo.
ment ana IN alishtng from his carriage lost his foot.
Ing, FELL and received fatal wound. He was carried
IN neighporing house, where he died, anu that
glass overthrow tho Orleans dynasty ana involved
countless troubles TO a wnoe nation.
There Is another hre oosides the dre OF alcohol
that is the ono that ~ never qnencncd 81 Mucn
been said about IT, We know that the greatest con-
nagratlon on This earth may finally be conquered by
the ingenuity VI man. but The Are spoken OF IN Scrip
ture Is very different thing IL is called
one place everlasting 1re,' and IN another shell
fire" and this means nre without END. There is
no saying that hell Hades means
tho grave, ana that the fire Is burning
there. Everywhere among mon an idea prevails
thai thcre is heaven ana hell but s,artingright
upon the nineteenth century In the full light
Of tho text. men found who sock by argu-
mont and dccamation ~ prove the non-exstence oi
hell
He did not believe with somo Of his brethren OF the
ministry that the hrs material but that
OF rcmorse Tor the sins that committed
Material fire can 10 put ou This cannot for is the
onsuming flame OF guilty conscience.
Judas lscarot could not rest but went oct and hanged
himself. There was tho man who planned the mas
n n nUn m mann
OF that bloody deed, but vain and thus 1t that
the conscience visits the OF sin upon perpe.
traitors Inero are cases, however where men as they
proceed In their crimes become less less
TO the voice and sting ot conscience. but they viii
wake up beyond tue grave to hnd conscience mex
orablc ruthless and everlasting scourge. There 10
only one way W which men may escape this partigu
lar nrc, and that by repentance OF and walking
In the ways OF Jesus Christ
FUTURE MISERY FOR THE wrcKED-REv. COR
NELIUs Il. DUFFY. D. D.
The Rev. Cornelius Roosevelt Duffy D. D., rector OF
the Church OF ST. john the Baptist Lexington avenue
and Thirtyhth street, selected his Galatians
vi, Z, s. 9:"Be not deceived; God is not mockod:
for whatsoever man soweh, that shall he also reap.
For he soweth his fesh shall of the flesh reup
corruption: but he that soweth 10 the spirit shall OF
tho sp,ri, reap everlasting lfa And let rs not be
weary in well doing: for in due shall reap
II we fain. not" The preacher In his Introductory
referred to tho discussion very general tho
community regarding future punishment aud the
period OF its duration, ana announced the basis Of
his discourse to be ''the future misery Of the
wicked not the nfictlon OF punishment by
the arbitrary oi God, but necessary conse.
quencc OF their actions and character here" He
argued that the text shows that evory In this
HE has direct bearing upon our after ltie So lar
punishment OF The sinner Is concerned II not
tho arbitrary action God but the natural result Of
sin and wrong doing. II We continue SIN In this
lite continue sin forever; that is the punish
mcnt; II we livc a life OF holiness hero we will live u
n nod not
always multiplied just as one sin may bring forth
harvest OF iniquty. The vital, irrepressiDe powers
produce and reproduce themselves indefinitely.
Light is thus thrown on future punishment, and 1t
Is sufficiently clear 20 rescue II from the charge OF
bong Gods arbitrary act The eternal punishment OF
sncera s tho result OF their sins earth.
could not live in heav0n. The songs worship OF
the angels could not be endured by hin, and he would
long return earth The practical warning of
text Is that wo should seed the right time
Learn labor and to wait Christians; the harvest
will surely come. Patience and perseverance, are
among the great lessons taught by the and its
consideration. Sow good seed ana plenteousy; It Is
sao Investment Practice all the virtues, and the
and greater your CHRISTIAN the Will
be your reward AS there Is season Of reapirg, so
there s season sowing. 1t Is not surprising that
vicious youth is developed into the criminal man.
that he h0 bad seed should reap and
thistles Much dopenus upon this, timc proba-
tion Garth. II determines whether shall be
how we died, but how lived. Plant The seeds OF
holiness and right and not the seeds OF sin.
Every good deed done here will be found recorded
the hereafter.
THE WICKED SHALL SUFFER- HEREAFTER-