New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-11
yApIorS YIEWs OF HE'LL.
UNIyEEsALIsI AID sriRirUALIsr COMMENSURATE
- sELN PROM PROTESTANT rCLPirs.

- slim FROM llpltHiANI ltlT
"The doctrine that thi, life is The only state
of probation" aid The Rev. james VI. Pullman, the
Church If our saviour UnycrsIl5p at Fifty-5rventi
g. and Eieh.htyc. els founded purely upon a,sumI
ton and +. entirely unscr.pIural. This setting Il
limit TO the tine when God can raiiou the som,
lie has created. amounts 10 simply thls. that the
Almighty God may possibly succeed IN snatch
lug from the dcvii bare majority OF these souls he has
put into the world a grandcr scneme or Divine Prov
aruc. has yet been found in any orthodox creed is
about To break orh upon the world. II IL founded upon
the submission the ind yilGai 10 The Divine SOyer
eighty # you turn away iro'n God your stubborn
moss must M overcome by punishment. There must
he obedience by grace obedience BY discipline Pun
i.bm.ut will not .ave the sinner hut it VIII subduc his
spirit and bring him to the feet of Christ; ana
Christ win save him. The worst aspect OF the
orthodox creed Ia lis effect upon society and
upon individuals. As long of pure lives
and high character stand IN Ia their pulpit
and declare that salvation il cheap. ana that IL can b.
rot by a nOmenary act or faith, you must cNUcct
decentralization In private ie and the debeuchegy OF the
public conscience ny doctrines. the sccptic OF
ai.d life IA eternay punished. while the repenting
murderer Il swung from the scatOd INTO the bliss OF
Heaven Tn" eject OF this Is 10 people Heaven with
some of the wostsOus anlh ell with some the noblest'
Colonel ingcrsoii s'yS ne atrS tnr i'lD' saln thr
Roy W. T. Hatfield, NJ the Eighteenth Street Methodist
Episcopal Church. :" don't wonder That he does Hell
i, mentioned IN the Bible, and very nuch iear nat ne
will get here one of these days u nc does not repent AZ
though do not know for surety that Colonel ingers0us
nnfpathy Christian ministers arose from TINS source,
yer do know that when IngcrsOlPS name was proposed
ms Minister 8efn, II was suggested ~ many Chris
nan Ministers that would not be- consistent 10 send
inhdel ~ Muster from Christian country nnother
For tins ngerso u atteuptng IN his weak way,
TO overthrow the Christian Ministers. satan, when
he east out from Heaven, attempted to dc stroy the
race and looks though nserso bad gone INTO part
urr-hp with Tie devil II the doctrine Ol future pun
isment were taken away, II would destroy society II
there hell, then there IL no heaven; ana VINO
would wish - Dciiryc that y
THE results OF secpiicsm,". said the Rev. Carlos
vart,n nj the THIRTY -Tonrth-s Reformed Church. are
Voitaire Tom Paine and Bob inSersO'l-bad, worse,
vorst Co!Ouu IugtrsDll eAatS ana pIiupcrs the body
aud teaches eat, drink and ne merry. Rockingham
dream. 5crptcism touches low wator mark ia lager
soil. The light OF Christianity IL better lhhn NOiOuel
| Ingersols ta,lOw dip" ~
the Rev Hull AT the Baptist Tabernacle second
ave. discOses the fact chat nearly all mtn admit ta
there IA Oi punishment for the wicked beyond the
crave terrible future those that reject the Lord
ana has also elected the truth that there are no Unyer
| sasts such our fathers knew"
This subject Of place OF iuturc punishment, sald
Mrs Nellie Brigham, AZ "a SpIraiist meeting IA Repub-
lie Hail, "is discussed now never was before. II
! good Cots glory. IL cannot be for the latter.
| one cannot conceive of God creating men with
natures prone to evil surrounding them with tompIa-
TONS and when they falias fall they must-plunging
tnein INTO eternal torment Such God might be II
| King tyrant. but not One whom ADDRESS as Our
Father. II then the punishment is for mans good.
| he to rob IL OF its only excuse for being.
The Hebrew had idea Of he'll OF everlasting torment
Later mythology threw its shadow over theology
The place OF torment depicted lake OF eonsnnl-
ing fire. There Is some SENSE In depicting nel ~ DOT
toiness pit as the great multitude Of sinners would soon
have filed up ANY other. and late arrivals would have
escalcd scot free. The old idea Of nell was that
sin was 10 be punished by material means The0ogans
still cling t. this superstition Here Is sample oi theii
man but unc he goes straight to hell The
murderer In confinement. repents, and Ike the thel Oh