Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1889-10-11
HORRORS OF the DAMNED.
First HelI-Then Lake Of the Intensest
Fire.

good-sized audience at st. Paul's VI. +.
church, Cambridge, last night.
The text was / Cor. 3l3: "And the
fire shall try every mans work OF what
sort 1t is" The theme was, THE first
judgment and hell, the trial 10y tire and
the nature of the last judgment"
! The speaker said There is much
more to be said in treating OF. this sub
ject. have been called infidel and all
manner of vile names because dare as.
sert the truth. But truth will stand.
And as long as the clocks OF time contin-
ne there Will be truths new to follow.
! Upon the tens OF thousands of souls
that pass from this lie every day | be-
| lieve that the sentence OF lite or death is
passed by God Immediately the soul
leaves the body. That the soul passes
into "A state not eternal in duration, but
awaits the final Judgment. You ask il
the state in which the soul passes after
physical death is noteternal? ii the souls
Of the righteous do not pass to their final
rest, and the souls OF the ungodly 10 their
final judgment?
| answer, no.
Were this TACT what need OF final
judgment? What need oi calling re-
union Of damned spirits at the general
Judgment day? believe that the soul
OF the righteous man or woman is imme.
dlately transported 10 the former and
present heaven, there to dwell till the
last great day. believe that the souls
of the ungodly are shot into hell. re-.
jet the use Of the term place as connec.
ted with hell. ! believe il (helll TO be a
state of dark despair; made awful with
hopeless fear 10y the knowledge that from
thencctorth there can be no hope for
them; that the state in which the soul
left the body at death shall remain un-
changed until the last day. The murder.
er shall be lett prey to the murdcrous
thoughts that filled his mind before he
had killed his victim, and the agony Of
despair after his arrest and the torture
OF remorse after sentence Ia death. The
inccstuOus, the adultcrer and adulteress
will he left 10 the fire of their passions,
but having left their bodies in the grave
their torment will he the more ex-
trcme.
The drunken bowls OF the inebriate
and the hag.l screams of the drunken
woman shall roll with murierous dis
cord through the gloomy distances OF
that awful state. Listen, il you will, TO
tLe howls of Charles Dickens miscr in
Oliver Twist. Read chapter 81, page
los. The picture that you will see is ire
nIcndOus in its awful agony. What must
b, the awful and terrific state of that
murderous, crafty and pcrjured soul
when IL VAS released bv death from it's
finite limitations; when il appeared be-
fore God and from thence turned loose
to the rawlings of the miscr's conscience
dashed spirit The devils that have rul-
ed his mind here bore him company
there. ! fancy that can hear the mock.
ing laugh Of those satanic spirits as they
drag the tormented soul from depth TO
depth of n state OF sLuddering horror.
There the devil passions which Turk in
your hearts will light their hclish fires
beneath the black caldron Of vice in
which unsatiated passions OF concupis-
cence may in blackness foam with boil
ing heat.
II is commonly said that every person
has his or her bcsetting or chief sin. The
motive which prompts that sin ! call
your chief devil, which, without you re-
pent, shall lead you ON to the awful
blackness Of hell. When your evil spir-
its release themselves from the mazes OF
the mind they call to kindred spirits and
from the vastextremes of that awful state
the believing OF your chief sin in thun-
derbolt tones will rush upon your trem-
bling soul, which in desparing screams
will cry aloud, "Oh, that had never
been born to dieW
There the glutton with the grunt o
a hog will roll in the slough of his greed
: The soul with greed for gold will be heard
with vuiture-like scream. There the un
just shall be unjust still. The filthy
snail be filthy still In this state shall
. the souls OF the damned be confined un
til the last general judgment. But fal
from the ken OF human thought shall the
horrors of hell exist 10 torture those ma.
tons that have scorned God as manifest
in His own dear Son.
The coming of the Son of God shall be
sudden and unexpected by the masses
No roll OF drums, no roar OF cannon, OF
ringing of bells will announce His ap.
proach. But there shall burst upon the
world one red lightning flash. Then
shall the wheels of time be locked to re-
volve no more, and begin that gloriou:
; era in which so many have 80 bright and
sure hope. His coming will be with