The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-01-21

justice Of Gods doing so. Justice is the moral
quality that God manifesto In his actions. He
world H than % he is Tor punishine us in this world.
The Rev. DR.. ]. H. Taylor in, the Clinton Aye.
nue. Reformed Chui Newark, held; !: That
frmed by the philosophical and scrptural doc
lrnc Of the endless SHINING OF The wicked IN
men, and Of The future state of the good and tho
bad throughout the Bible are nali,gs' Sisai Gi2snEi
beyond which there enrSn Upp ops
the end Ia reached. the sentences are lrreVersi-
ble the silence is unbroken. II Is inc last we
ton" g. Universalism in its various aspects
fails to account satisfactorily. for many OF the
redemption Tor the religious experiences 9f
mon. and Tor the moral government ot the world.
reformed jew. preachcd in the Greene Avenue
Methodist Church. Brooklyn. He declared that
il was Gods desire that all should be saved
which He would be If He failed to punish those
The Rey. james NJ Pullman. in All Souls
Universaist Church. seid, II is interesting
and amusing to notice the discussion The So
called orthodox preachers, seem to try 70 show
how God can get along without rcdecming Hi
children. One Of them says, that the words
wrath Of God occur n The Bible oitener than n,
God is therefore angry cftsner than He is
good natured, Another says that. II there is TO
be no eternal hell. there can be no eternal
heaven. This IL equivalent To- saying that With
out darkness there can bc no light, without
sickness there can be no good health. without
rc S be- No &c o No. ro TS mast b. "S rasse SS
reasons for such n oncuson-reasons known
only TO the Almighty and Mr.. Talmage: An.
other brother comes boldly TO the front with
this bit of logic: A. We are part Of God. we
shall exist rs long as God exists. The Scrip
turc says. He shall burn up the chan with ever
lasting fire. therefore eternal damnation is re-
served Tor the unredcemcd. T. pnrt o. God
eha1. and viii lie destroy Himself? What
II men are to he saved without one We answer
that Christ saved man from sin because sin is
inherently vile and degrading, and no one
under It's bondage can be harpy. The Apostle
Paul did not once use the word hell. and ap
narently was dishcieycr II II YET he more
the Lord. These men hold that death Is the de-
Gliding pont-as We die SO must We be through
shire passing sentence upon La fage he eru-
tai murderer of Josie I.angmaid. said: Do
not hope TO escape punishment 10y annihilaton;
Rather prepare for the judgment OF God and
strive by deep repentance TO gain spoucss
Inconsistent therefore. with the character Of
God to allow murderer TO escape punishment
by annihlnlion. but perfectly cons -tcnt to allow
him to eXpAtc his brutality by momeniary re-
pentance From the gallows he may 70 straight
10 heaven In robes ~ spotless Innocence. while
the victim Of his violence must takc her chances.
Such a religion is domoralizlns' and Is an en-
The Rev. Dr. Dunn, of the Halsey Strcot Moth
oiist CAur %. rwhrN, argued against il" doc
trlne Of purgailry. and for that oi endless
The Roy H. W. knapp. in tho I.aelt street
Is lltist Church gloried in the just lee of God In
punIshing rtrrnally He held that God. n the
head If the universe. had the inherent right 70
maze laws and 10 execute them. lfhe believed
in God. h. must hcliess THAT he wa good
JUS and holy; and that His laws were for tho
highest good u all created. man guilty Of
wqlatns them IN one point was guilty II az.
Where tN"rn was Z. 'aw u WIS a necessity that il
should haNe penalty and tAe ne,nnn,y isr v.o'
l.
Now Jrrusulem Temple ,SwedcnborSnn New
ark. con lc1net tn. doririn" oi lf"ra, holl IN
severe tcrns, and approved Canon Fafrar's
Language so far as il trenouuooi the commonly
received ".th hnioN a" iriue II fuur, punish
that the essential clement Of he'll j, evil. He'll j.
a provision oi ne divine government q
tho Lord, where the suuerlngS oi me wicked
The Lords enicavor s Ia soften II, and ame-
liorate its conditions. The unhappiness OF the
place Is from the passions ana in,es-ant rams
gressions OF lis inmates, the influence Of the
Lord being to better them. Hell j. ike an im-
mense hosp!salo or insane as} ium, where those
limbs. or from insane imagiuattnns ana horrs.
BE fancie~, may be corea for i isa place q
suffering: hut the suffering j. due 10 the state
Of the inmgte, and not 10 the nature ot th" in
stilniion. Hcl l. 2 pr9yisi,o.n 81 d,ylne love
sink 50 low - To- get heyoni the rnach OF ne
infinite tenderness Of the Lord. Hell is tho
home which cur Heavenly Father has provided
for his wayward children. The Lord never
casts any one into hell. Every one who goes
there dooS 80 under the freedom OF his per-
Nerted choice. and impoN"d 10y tho Instincts of
his h"i~h passion. II this seems impossible
we must remember that heaven Is the abode If
charity, inno"ure, and purity. nnd hell Of
scliishne-s and POLLUTION; and that man in
freedom will choose the evil there as readily as
he does hcrc. How often has some wayward
plunge himself into the hcl oi impnrvY In
like mannerwill he who loves evil choose it then,
The k9,y. A, Wcyani Bourne IN ne sherman
less pun ishment was the plain teaching Of the
Bible. As 70 the nature - he'll he said;
Wherever the lost are will hc hell. il may be-
material. a. our bodies sympN'h1' with the
mind, So the spiritual body will with the soul {:
but rs mental JOYS transcend bodily ones 50
mental agony tran-cend- physical pain. 4 soul
left 70 its-li without nope, VIII Oe IN terrible
The Rev. II. r. Nye. in tho Univcrsalst
Church Of our Father, BROOKLYN said that the
Bible makes singular statement about hell, i
Thou art there Jacob says he will meet Jo-
scph in hell. In other places it speaks Of men
going into he'll and coming out.
Church. Wiliamsburgh, SAID; God l. a
riePtsogs nudge, and in his work he has re- r..
Judgment must be Just The wicked will re-
through all eternity a state Of conscious suffer
The Roy J. Hyatt Smith, in the Lee Avenue
Baptist Church. il'iamq1s sDureh' preached 2n
He said that the common claim that faith in
Jesus Christ was absolutely necessary for saliva
ton was rapidly glNlng way tp the dortrlne
enunciated by Paul, that The heather are n
law unto themselves" There are undoubtedly
devout heathen. whose consciences are accus-
ing them through life, and whose faith In their
sacrifice is like that of Abraham. not knowing
Christ, but accepted Of God. II The heathoh be
damned not knowing Christ, what, then, be-
comes Of the babe and the idiot. Tho Great
Judge will weigh character in the balance and
each will be judged according 20 his knowledge
The Rev. Y. l.. Rowell. in the Free Baptist
Church used Tor a text: These shall go away
into everlasting punishment. but tho righteous
into lie eternal. Ho sNid the words everlast-
ing and eternal in the Greek were each IRON
the same root. and II the text didn't mean that
punishment was endless. then neither was the
life into which the righteous would go. Pun
ishment in hell would be mental rather than
physical. As there would be no literal pal ms or
gates OF gold in heaven, SO there would De no
literal scorpions in he'll. The memory Of the
sinner would DE active. and he would be obliged
to ponder over sins committed on EARTH His
human conscience would accuse him. lie
would have bad company in nell There would
be with him there all the murderers, adulter-
ers, thieves. pirates, atheists. deistS, infdes,
and drunkards. He would constantly banker,
like Dives, for things that he could not get, and
would be- tormented with hatred and revenge.
and with tho fury and revels Of demons
The Rey. J. f. Forester. IN the UniNersalist
Church Of the kedeemer, Newark, preached on
Terullian. IIe averred thatfhe CarthQggonian
first introduced the doctrine Of an endless hell
into the Christian Church, and that his fellow
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