The New York herald., 1878-02-10
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY FEBRUARY TO- 187soUADKuPLE SHEET

trnal definitions the abovo mentioned question is for
them out OF place.
|. Second-concerning Protcstants-If they arc real
ORTHODOX Potestants they believe Christ TO be tho
Son OF God incarnate consequently that His teaching
Is true, and they believe the Bible be tho Word o.
God.
Let u.s. thon, open the Bible aud consider the utter
ances OF Christ and His apostles That in the books OF
the old covenant hell Is frequently mentioned nobody
VIII deny who has the OF the Old Tes
lament Moses, David. the prophets, point 10 a
place in eternity where after death tho wicked are
punished. They Call 1t "nelI,' "everiastIpg IRE,
''uarkness," 1.-THE well OF DEATH" 'rhc country Of
sorrows Numbers. xvi Psalm, v. Isaiah, xxxlv !;
Daniel, XII Isaiah, xxxiL, &c Especially st. John,
preaching to the crowds OF people coming evory
direction 10 hear him. mentions, aud meuaccs thom
WIN, the unquenchable ire OF he'll, which proves
that ths bciief In future everlasting punishment
which awaits the siIner was common belief
among tho Jews. But only Jews believed in hell.
but also all mankind believed In II. Primitive
revelation in this regard has never the original
IAN OF man, perished from among men What tho
Greeks and Romans believed oil Tararus bears W.T.
ness 10 this; and no. supersttlous persons only
among them believed In II, but men like Socrates
Plato. Aristotle. Cicero ana Seneca What student
eau be ignorant OF whatIo omcr Virgil sang OF tho
descent OF Eneas into Tar,arusP hven Boyle aud
Bolngbrokr, those propagutors Of inndelity plainly
acknowledge the undenaDie fact Of tins
wth mems conscience. Conceruug the uttcrances OF
Christ Oh the subject, all have rend tho Cos
pels Know that He irequenty, even more frequently
tnan oil heaven, spoke oil place IN eternity whore
| God shall punish the wicked; that place He calls
place OF tormenis-Luke, XVI, 2s; OF weeping and
gnashing OF teeth-Malt., vuL, Il lie calls IL hell
hre-Mait, ", 22-which, as He alhrms, cannot be
quenohed. He speaks oi Two ways on, which men are
walking toward eternity, tue one leading to life, the
other leading TO destruction-MaIL, vi., l3
But tne e. most solemn peremptory aud decisive
words OIL Christ ahrmiug hell as place OF everiast-
| ing punishment Ior the wicked the words which
he shall hereafter prooounce as the coming Judge OF
mankind ut tho day of The judgment. when lie Will
say 10 them that shall stand the left SHE -"De-
part from me, ye cursed, into everlasting lrc which
was prepared tor the devil his angeisn Aud they
sna,i 70 INTO everlasting punishment and the just
into lie everlasting What clearer and more POSITIVE
words could Christ have used 10 announce to man
KIND hell, where tho wicked shall be punished with
out end ii some Protesiants, nevertheless, deny
spoke IN the samc sentence Of heaven and OF hell
50 Inc apostles TOO, understood the law aud so
they taught the faithful Peter IN his second episte
alllrms that the wicked snail be tormented by tno
same tormcn,s which were prepared for the fallen
angels that is the torments ot everlasting nre. ii.
Peter, H.
So st. Paul aflrms that the wicked who obey not
Christ and DO not live according TO HIS laws shall
suiIer eternal pains H. ihessaonians, L., 0.
What painss ST. jude in mis- epistle says they are
suffering the punishment OF eternal lire
ST. John ~ his Apocalypse saw the damned In a
pool OF uamnaiion where, he says, they shall be
mented Tor ever aud ever. Apocalypse, XIV and Xxx
These words OF christ and HIS apostles too
picit, too positive 10 admit in their
depreciation of any su6erluge or equivocs-
from All espeey yy snoua we naapos
OF the irst century OF the Christian era who UNDER
stood the teaching Of Christ aud HIS apostles IN the
way IN which the Catholic Church has defined it, We
abstain from these quotations because wo simply wish
~ argue against AS such and they refuse
10 listen 10 tradition. II, however, they refuse to
listen 10 the clear teachings Of the words OF Christ aud
His apostles to which have referred and dsbelievs
the existence oil hell they may call themselves Protes
tants, but III TACT thew only disguised Dsists.
Third-we call Deists those VINO believe In God
ana the immortality OF our soul, but deny revelation
aud think that natural honcsty-that is that keep
the law OF nature according to the dictates of their
regard them say existence OF hell is out
OF tho question. Please pay tun attention 10 that
which we shall say.
Some OF your will probably not perceive tho
whole strength OF ocr argument but all logical think
es, al trained philosophers will perceive H. and for
those especially We write this paragraph.
The Deist, believing In Il Creator and Ruloi Of the
world-God-must acknowledge in Him u beng who rs
also capable, under all Of ruling rational
and Immortal beings, IT He was pleased TO create
them free, as He did create man. whom LET, to
obey Him or 10 disobey Him. Such immortal beiugs,
II they chose to be disobedient God could
He would not confirm HIS law by everlasting punish
meDt.
Listen to my reason why he could not. The
reason Is that Whatever temporary and therefore has
an end IS OF no avail for an immortal bciug VINO has
before him eternity. No matter now long the punish
ment may last-one hour or millions oil years-when
passed. IL s equally gone. An i'm mmoral being there.
FORE could dey his Creator and Ruler und prefer the
temporal enjoyment Of SIN IN defiance Of mere tom.
porary punishment
all those Catholics and Protestants, who while be-
evng IN everlasting punishment still dare to remain
In mortal sin. Whai then. would men care abou
SIN IT, on the contrary, they believe that there Is
such thing 10 be eared AS everlasting punishment
everlasting punishment OF those who rebel against It,
Is commensurate for beings who are themselves I'm
mortal
government winch has power to control the
wckedness oil the trausgressors oil It's laws by
hicton OF punishment sufficient TO deter Them Is
miserable one. Aud that IS what the government o
God would be In regard to immortal beings rcDsii ng
against MIN II there were no everlasting punishment
Moreover, cas- God IL omniscient how could He dc
otherwise than ordain tue eternal punishment Of
mortal beings, of whom He oresaw that. lett to their
own dispositions many wsuld never cease through all
eternity to offend Hny God knows II that
already the case with a the fallen angels
| DO you understand the bearings OF my argument
Absracting from all revelations II you do not you dc
not reason.
Fourtl-But It may bc that inadcs arc pautheists
neilher believing ln personal God nor In persona
immortality OF men. For these, OF course, the ques
tIon OF the existence OF hell Is out Of place.
The other part OF the question in regard to the kind
ofpunishment In hell rs equally out OF place, becauso
reason, by se, never answer this question, and
revelation was not given 10 satisfy our curiosity No
explicit definition IN this regard has ever been given
by the Church II perfectly suillccs to perceive by
faiti aud reason that the punishment OF men, whu
having eaed in the state OF mortal sin anu been
condemned TO hell VIII affect body and soul they
have slnncd with both, and that their punishment VII
be eternal Any punishment that never ends must be
fer he same dreadful warning to try by all
to AVOID II. whether II be BY nro otherwise. B u
for those who nrmly believe all that God has re-
vcaled to men, proposed to them by the legitimate
teaching authority, and who live accordingly they
on the way OF salvation, and Tor them II o.
very little interest what KIND OF punishment God n
1lcts snuers In hell They rather direct then
thoughts to the joys that awair thom In heaven But
those who wifny err, or who do not live tney be
leve proceeding in the way OF damnation, they vii
sooa enough know BY experience wha; eternal pun
ishment IN hell means Yes those Ingersollians ant
nil other oasphemous scoers ut religion, II they re
We afraid shortly to exclain, 'Ycs, this Is hell
and am there!'' Too late then to ridicuc hell
Yours truly 7. " WENlNGEK, ID. d.
TIE SHORT METHOD With HE'LL.
MorT HAVEN Jan. 29, 1878.
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