, 1890-08-21


translated by hell I'm the King James
Bible; hades, meaning tho same as
elsewhere In Greek literature; Ge-
henna, which was properly the hell
OF Hebrew conception, aud Is uni
formly so rendered In the revised
version; and 1artarus, used only
once q Peter Iii. A., which Is the
regular Greek word for the place of
punishment after death. The place
of future punishment represented In
Chrlsts teachings In q place of fire:
whatsoever shall say, Thou fool,
shall be In danger Of the hell Of fire"
Matt. v. %, revised versionl; the
fire Is to be eternal and un-
quen nchable: ut Is good for
thee to enter into life
MANNED, rather than having thy
two hands to 20 into hell, into the
unquenchable fire, where
their worm dieth not and the fire is
not quenched." Mark ix., Az, As;
see also Matt. xviii, 81 In Revela-
tlon st. John informs us what fuel
Is to support the unquenchable fire:
"If any man worshipeth the beast
aud his image, he shall be
tormented with fire and birthstone
In the presence of the holy angels,
and in the presence of the Lamb;
and the smoke of their torment
goeth up forever and ever; and they
have no rest day or night" REV.
xiv, OLD In another passage II is
revealed concerning various kinds
Of sinners that "their part shall be
In the lake that burneth with fire
and birthstone, which Is the second
DEATH" (Rev. XXI, g. This doc
trlne was intended to last unchanged
for all time, for we find In the last
chapter the statement that Ii any
man shall add to or take from the
words of this book, he shall suffer
all the torments and lose all the re-
wards which are written In this
prophecy. Rev. xii, 1S.10.)
MoHAMMEDANIsM.
The religion of Islam Is charac-
terized by lack of originality, and
the Mohammedan hell contains
nothing but easy-made variations
of the Gehenna of the Jews. To
the man that disobeys the precepts
of the Koran 1T Is promised that
"God shall cast him into hell fire;
lie shall remain therein forever"
ANTHOLOGY
In the Greek mythology, which
was copied by the Romans,
the place of future punishment Is
called Tartarus. The universe Is
represented in the poetry of Homer
and Hes.od as a hollow globe, di-
vided by flat earth. In the top Of
the upper hemisphere was Olym-
pus, the home of the gods; in the
hemisphere beneath the earth was
hades, the abode of all the dead;
and in its lowest depths
was Tartarus. An anvil
would be nine days and
nights in. falling from Olympus to
the earth; nine days and nights from
the earth to the bottom of Tartarus.
"Around it, moreover, brazen
fence has been forged and about it
Night is poured in three rows" In
Tartarus there is darkness, and the
air has no motion. Prometheus,
who was guilty of overreaching
Leus, was punished by being
chained to rock, part of the time
on earth and part in Tartarus. An
eagle devouTed his liver every day,
and 1t was renewed every night.
Ixion, who had been treacherous to
Ieus, was chained by the hands aud
feet TO Il wheel, which is described
as winged or fiery, and said to have
rolled perpetually In the air. He Is
further said to have been scourged
and compelled to exclain: "Bene-
factors should be honored.
Sisyphus is represented by differ
ent authors as guilty of treachery of
various kinds. His wickcdness
during life was severely punished in
the lower world, where he had to
roll up hill a huge marble block,
which, as soon as it reached the top,
always rolled down again. Tau
talus was wealthy king, who di-
vuked the secrets of Zeus. "The
Gods punished him by placing him
in the neither world In the midst of
"a lake, but rendering IL impossible
for him to drink when he was
thirsty, the water always Withdraw
ing when he stopped. Branches
laden with fruit, moreover, hung
over his head, but when he stretched
out his hand to reach the fruit the
branches withdrew. Over his head
there WAS suspended huge rock,
ever threatening TO crush him."
The Danaides, or fifty daughters of
Danaus, all but one of whom in
obedience to their father killed their
husbands OH their wedding night,
were punished in Tartarus by being
compelled everlastingly to pour
water in to u sieve.
MORSE.
According to the Scandinavian
all who die bravcly in
battle arc snatched away to Valhal-
Ia, Odin's magnificent banuuet-hall
in the sky. Those who, after lives
of ignoble labor or inglorious ease,
die Of sickness, descend to a cold and
dismal cavern, beneath the ground,
called Nifiheim, |. e., the mist-world.
This abode is ruled by the goddess
OF death, whose name Is Hell. The
place of torment for reprobates is
Nastrond, deeper underground than
Niflheim, and far toward the frigid
North. This grim prison Is de-
scribed in the following passage
from the Prose Edda, written In
Iceland in the thirteenth century:
"In Nastrond there is vast and
direful structure with doors that
face the north. 1t Is formed en-
tirely of the backs of serpents, wat
tied together like wickerwork. But |
tho sarpppts' honda are turned to-