The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-07
WHAT is HE'LL?
Individual Preferences Expressed
from the Pulpits.
LENlENT VIEWS OF THE QUESTION
DR.. Pullm ans Notions OF What We Are
Going to Suffer

What We IN Danger or" his text being l. John,
w., 16-"God is love; and he that dwellcth In love
dwelleth in God and God in him.. The preacher said
that those words placed at tho head OF his dis
because their definition of God the lips
Of an apostle rncre two kinds OF tho
ology. he continued tho love theology and
the hatc theology Perfect love will try no
experiments, and perfect wisdom cannot. This
question OF everlasting punishment has brought
forward many theories Of late and the points winch
present themselves are tour in number:-Whether
God has brought this vast army souls the world
to utterly destroy them; whether He will place
in perfect bliss and some IN perfect misery; or
whether will be sure Of perfect happiness aud
some will DO wholly destroyed; or whether He will
purify, elevate, ennoble and save them alL There
have been some deniais recently from those of high
authority IN the matter OF final punishment, but they
do not offer In its stead perfect restoration. Many
stop with denying final punishment say that many
tnngsGod has not revealed, aud thus do not wish
60 fur her IN tho discussi0n Can II DO thought That
God places US hero probation and docs not
TO Us the chances Of our bong savedP 1t Is
unjust suc 70 peril waoa. oSan aos Ss
lutte understanding upon what our destiny
question, and not to show the awful consequences
that await Us for our acts, rs not to DO considered 10
say that God has prepared this internal dollhouse for
US without telling US OF II, would be to make him out
monster Tho second substitute that offers 10 ami
hilasion. Tho destruction OF soul defeats
God as much as does eternal punishment.
Tho doctrine OF annihilaton denies the supremacy
Of God There IL no absolute proof Of decay OF the
soul, and the arbitrary destruction OF soul ny God
without warning must BIO objected TO monstrous.
1t Is the doctrine OF all evangelical bodies that while
are In the body Christ can and VIII save tho
utcrmost, but this Is all changed when death comes.
On what authority such an announcements made does
not ranspre The doctrine OF annihIaton is not 10 be
tolerated by any Christian society Tho third substitute
for everlasting punishment Is final restoration. That
IN Sut m 6 81 b
that God will not violate mans full. This meta
physical bubble II Cod VIII not violate mans VIII
| IN va a n nj hu
justly punished Tor what no Is forced TO do The
plain TACT is that God sways man by moral
motives. II Is impossible for men DO always tree
TO do what Is wrong, and not to do what right If
man has such metaphysical freedom OF will then
there Is nothing future certain and the theory OF moral
government Is pro0ematical
RIGHT
II the danger Is not everlasting punishment, and If
s not eternal destruction OF the soul, then
tho peril that Is entalied upon us2 II the loss Of
a right lie, and the punishment comes when that
has to be resaned 1t has been the doctrine OF ortho-
doxy since the Reformation that probation stops at
hs II ns ae a Of nsn Gs THIS
fall buck on Gods estimate Of man. He waits upon
them With the restoring power OF love- The true
terror Of tho Lord Is the absolute restoration of
from any lapse OF evil Tho rcsusciiation OF soul
that has lapsed into SIN Is Infinitely painful than
It's eternal punishment The rcal danger Of Is tho
inevitable and inexorablc law OF restoration. God
will not compromise with you and give you torment
In hc While this Is true It Is also true that there
is no salvation In terror No soul ever attain
TO virtue while rewards are simply in view. To bar
with God is carry huckster spirit into the
Jerusalem. II Christianity had mover held up any
higher inspiration than this BARGAINING and selling
doctrine then should mover have heard OF Christ
HELL UNDERGOING ALTERATIONS AND RE-
pAIRs-REv c. p. MCARTAY
Rev. c. P. Mccarthy discoursed In the Ffce Church
OF America, at Trenor Hall, Broadway and Thirty.
second street, last evening. His text from Cor.
inthians ", 55-'Oh grave where thy sting Y"
Ever since the Protestant Reformation, he SAID the
various changes which have been wrought out by the
growth and progress Of knowledge In almost all fields
OF investigation have had the effect of gradually
cipating the civilized portions OF the world tho
power of superstition and falsohood religion. Three
hundred years ago tho religious thought OF Chrisen-
dom simply dreadful. The proof OF innate
grandeur In tho nature OF race. hstandng
us depravity, is 10 be found the old
superstilous and iniranatural hell has always been
undergoing change, which has been regulated by the
progress made aud tho revolutions accomplished
IN the theological theories OF successive ages
Mr. Bcechor's ringing note has found chafacterIs-
TIC echo IN tho purest and best lives of every church,
and even OF tho leading Presbyterian Minister'S
DR.. Crosby, repudatcd endless torment except the
theory Of endless SHINING. This rcorgan ization hos
removed all those departments for the
fathers, IN narrow thought OF Gods love- had pro
vided. St moro recently the same con6castc spirit
has extngushed the names ana removed the milan
mable materials The furnaces fallen Into state
oil dilapida0n, and the elaborate machinery which
was st0ep from Pagansm mas grown rusty Tor want
OF II Is asserted that helps can
perpcuatcd without the aid OF either ra birthstone
The OLD nell has become ruin Its alteration rcpar
IL impossible, and reconstruction Is the only
by which the present can be connected with tho past
and the future THIS reconstruction. arranged
basis Of u moro enlightened and scrptural faith, has
become the policy OF liberal thought Tho Roman
Catholic Church has not been shaken by the old ideal
hell Tor she has always taught that its antc-chambcr,
purgatory, would meet all the need and cry escape
from encless torment From various considera-
hOns these 10 seems evident tuat tho doctrine OF
endless punishment Is perishing because It has out
grown The moral sense Of mankind just the belief
Ia witchcra persisted or the RICHNESS OF slavery ana
after they have served their purpose like the scaold
ing Of building becomes useless alter Il has ouIgrown
It's reach. Every conception Of justice s outraged by
the idea OF endless suffering as the award for the sDs
oil this brief life
TWO EARTHLY CONDITIONS
There are two conditions OF humanity. These are
opposed 10 each other. Tho is heaven and tho
second self 10 supreme. In this lower Iifo which Is
chiefly governed by material ana selfish interests
modified, IN a great asurc, by external relations
and circumstances these Two conditions mingIc.
they act and react on each other. Tho secret Of
heaven Is love. What Is IL which determines all
human affections and sympathies. ana first gathers
them around special points and centresf II 10 tho
tender instinct OF home one which forbds tho Idea
Of u formal multitude sending forth q monotonous
shout OF hallcujahs. Tho iostlnct OF home IL simply
the drawing together OF souls most aike and con.
genial around one common centre where the ruling
influence Vi love may lve Its fullest qualification and
nour,shment and from whence II may then radate In
more extensive exercise Tor tie good OF Others Do
stroy this most holy intuition In and you drive
him INTO condition OF docp Decentralization or hope
less insanity. All OF reach OF these Influences
IN he'll Our home Is always where our affections
are. HOW admirable are the arrangements OF our
heavenly Father who is the ana loving head
centre of all homes, both here and hereafter by which
lie gradually removes the homo from this world
to the other We start In lie unbrokon
company. We are all here and would
live here forever. Youth il animated with
Joy anu hopel The earth looks lair, for
" sparkles with May dews upon which
shadow has fallen. This state Of things is not per-
mitted 10 continue Our circ,c Is broken, aud by
one we are removed hence. the light OF this
thought We see how vain are the decorations and
shows OF earth, except so tar as they the
responsiveness OF u beautiful und true lie within.
But the connection with the future Is arbitrary
II is organic-spirituay and morally organic. False
views OF God. OF heaven and Of hell sincerely held
Will only reard our spiritual progress but an un-
reformed and dcpravod character has nothing or its
outgrowth both more and hereafter, unmitigated
torment IN that mental condition called hell.
GOD WILL NEVER CAST Us OFF FOREVER