The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-27

lem fight dat hornets Des'..
your voice IN humble pr'ar,
81 dem sinners ober dar
Es liar ligion for spell,
Eh dem hornets was In hell.
S,oni. dis meetin' r all up,
n #AtHn apnt SOME sinful pup,
90 To hell wild all dc res
Andin' IN n hornets ties
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HE'LL.
N Account Of Hell--Its Geographi'
eal Nature and Pop ulation.
tChioaao Times,1
lara apo d holy Jusuit Ihe Rev.
i y az meditation on hell, which was
IS Sinfad in this country with the ap.
,ntion of Bishop Kendriok, OF Phil
nhia. Below are some interesting
ssaues from the work, somewhat CON
sseed In form. and shorn OF the Latin
rrtptual quotations which adorn 1t.
n Rev. Father pinamonti says.
Tod has framed q prison In the lowest
ION OF the universe, q very suitable
Ss,p. sss the furthest OF all from heaven.
SO. though the place IL Wide enough.
damned will not even have that re-
Hi which either q poor prisoner has
gssRlkinp between four walls, or the
In man la turning himself In bed, be-
Aee here they shall be bound like
kot. and heaped upon one another
"a unfortunate victims and this by
3sson OF the great numbers OF the
aimed, to whom this pit will become
Bxrow and straight; as also because
In Are itself will be 70 them like chains
"a letters. The walls Of this prison
"a more than four thousand miles thick
chat IL, as far as from hence to hell
It were they 40 thin as paper. the pris-
ers will be too weak TO break through
Ibtn to make their escape.
fsrhe prison will not only be extremely
kaight, but also extremely dark. II is
lie there will be fire, but deprived OF
ISht: vet 90 that che eyes shall suffer
Ilath the sight OF most horrible appear
hoes. and yet be debarred OF the CON-
I'M which In the midst OF oil their terror,
Ia lirbtnings themselves might cause
81 the frightfulest tempests. There
an be heat without brightness" by o
bntrary miracle TO what was wrought
"A the Babylonian furnaces, for there.
IN the command of God, the heat was
Klxen from the Are, but not the light or
Fightness: but ID hell the Are will lose
I'm liuht. but not its heat. Moreover,
lila same Are, burning with birthstone,
#Ill have n searching flame, which,
icing mixed with the rolling smoke OF
Shat Internal cave, will fill tho whole
Mace, and raise storm OF darkness.
Finally, the same macs OF bodies.
xeaped one on another, will contribute
Ia make up a part Of that dreadful
8lpht, not o glimpse OF transparent air
SeIng left to the eyes OF the damn I'D,
thus darkened and almost put out.
The misfortunes OF this prison. sc
Atraight and obscure, are heightened by
The addition Of the greatest stencil;
thither, as Q common sewer, al
The filth OF the earth shall run after the
lire has purged 1t at the last day. Sec
bndly, the birthstone itself, continually
In such prodigious quantity
viii cause q stencil not to be borne
Thirtly. the very bodies Of the damned
will exhale so residential q smell thai
II any one OF them were to be placed
here on earth 1t would be enough. as st
Ronayenture observes, to cause a gen
eraI infection. The devil appearing one
day to st. Martin, with purple robe!
and n crown on his head. adore me,
paid he, "for ] nm Christ, and deserve
il. !" but the saint, assisted by a eelestia
light. answered hum, saying, my Lore
Ia crowned with thorns and coveret
with blood; I know him not in thi
dress The devil. being discovered
lied away, but left 80 great stencil be
hind him that this alone was sufticien
for the saint to discover him. II, then
one single devil could raise such
stencil, what will that pestiferous breatl
be that will be exhaled In the dungeon
where all the whole crowd OF torment
ing devils, and all the bodies OF the tor
mented will be penned up together
Air itself, being for time closely shu
UP, becomes insupportable; Judge the
what a sink of such loathsome filth mus
be to those that are confined In 1t FOL
ever.
The divine judgment has chosen FIR
as the fittest instrument TO punis
those that rebel against God. Eve
smong men there never was found
GREATER torment. Nevertheless, 20
must not think the fire OF hell is lik
ours. Happy, / say, would those III
Fortunate souls be If they met with n
ether fires than what can be made Q
earth. Our fire Is often applied to sui
Sects not at all proportional to its a.
rivitv: but the fire Of hell Is kindie
With q sulphurous and bituminous ma
Ear which will always burn with an VI
sreakable fury, as 1t happens in Il
fkmnderbolt, which strikes with so muc
Fonce caused by the violence OF thu
Iichtad exhalation. Finally, our III
I - what 1t burns, therefore I'll
.,snra intense 1t is the shorter 1t is; b'
thet Are in which the damned shall 10
-,rar Ia tormented shall burn witho'
sver consuming and Is, therefore. I
<Thrist compared unto salt, which, TO
ZINC them with inconceivable heat
x r Of fire, will also hinder the
. rom being corrupted, as 1t Is the natu
T Ti internal prison being TO conta
III tha bodies Ok the damned. Witno
f.ai,,c compenetrated one WIN anotne
y mifi IS requisite II should pc q PIT