St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-28
ABOLISH HE'LL.
David Tice, ofMinneapOIis, Stands
Up for a Hot Hereafter.

David Tice, minneapolis, Stands
Up for a Hot Hereafter.
To the Editor of the Globe
see in your Monday mornings
GLOBE that our enterprising Universal
ist brethren, under the lead of Rev. w.
S. Vail, have taken in hand the small
task of ''aholishing hell" This Lit
tie Benjamin, among the tribes, has
pluck. If they have not had very
prosperous career or done SO much for
this world, as some of their more pros
porous brethren, they have been very
much interested in the inhabitants of
the "other world" There are no small
bells to abolish In this world, and it
seems TO me, that if they could ex-
tinguisi the suffering in this world, it
S'ould be work nearer home, and OF
greater utility to mankind.
But this may be only part of the
scheme-between our Catholic brethren
CELEBRATING" all the departed that are
detained in "Tartarus" and "Purga-
tory"
Now that Pope Leo XIII. did. or Sun
day, Sept. 80, 1883. between the hours of
and 10 a. m, during his jubilee, acting
as Gods viceregenr, liberate all the
souls that had been detained in puga-
tory" "a place not mentioned by
prophet or apostle.) and if Mr.. Wallis
plan of depopulating sheol, hades. ge-
henna, translated hell, if this proves as
successful as some think Pope LeO'S
scheme has. then it would be we'll for all
the unhappy ones of earth to hasten
thther, and be at rest.
al, I 1, -s5
to fall in with this plan at once, but will
certainly believe in it mora if Brother
Vail will put out some ''hells' nearer
than ''gehenna," ana prevent the deep
sufferiEgS about his own door, in this
world.
These schemes, if success. would
widen the songs of the redeemed in
heaven, from lone" to three" When
1.-The Revelator" heard the redeemed
singing before the throne, this was their
song: Worthy is the Lamb, for Thou
vast slain, and hast redeemed US to
God out of every kindred, and tongue,
and people, and nation, and made as
kings, and priests, etc." (Rev. ", 91O.)
Those who have been saved "by the
blood of the Lamb" will sing their song
to His praise! And those who received
no help, no deliverance. save from
Pope Leo KILL" will sing of His
praise! And if that enterprisng st.
Paul divine shall succeed in 'abolishing
bell" and send the inhabitants supposen
to be destined tor that place after the
judgment day, it will compel endless
gratitude, even from the devil and his
angels" For if there is no "hell'' there
can be place for the devil and his
angels" but the abode of the blessed
before the throne of God.
All this follows as natural cOnse-
Quence, if this plan of Mr.. Wallis can be
carried out.
Should this plan of his miscarry. why
it will be only loss to those who are, as
the Scriptures tell us, who are lost
from this great undertaken of this plan.
that the idea of hell was born in dark
and superStitious age" etc.
What mercy ''that greater" than
Moses. Samuel, Elijah, David, and a
wiser than Solomon is here, and Isaiah,
and Daniel and all the prophets that
have spoken in the name of the Lord
may all retire into oblivion since W. s.
Vail has spoken!! And he that spake
''aS never man spake," whom we adore
as ''our Lord and Saviour" who claimed
to be The Way, The Truth. and The
Life" was too Ignorant and sUpersti-
tious'' for this "liberal age" What
misfortune that this man Vail had not
been called to 1.-The 'front.' earlier in the
history OF the race, he could have writ
ten Bible that would have suited all
classes in all ages, no doubt of It'll
Those prophets and apostles who
wrote THE Book" under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit could not reveal the
will of their God unless they spoke of
some ugly things about our great faml-
ly. and spoke OF sin and crime, of good
and bad, God and satan, heaven and
hell, etc. Some more competent pen
(?), as we hear of in the neighbOring
city, might have written book and not
found use for that ugly word ''sheol"-
which occurs siXty-five times in the old
Hebrew manuscript - and rendered
pit three times. grave" thirty-one
times and "helr' thirty-one times,
This old Hebrew bible has some things
good for tue good man and bad for the
wicked man, thus: "Say We, to the
righteous man 1t shall be we'll for ilim:
woe to the wicked man, it shall be ill
with him." for upon the wicked He
shall rain snares. fire and birthstone
and horrible tempest; this shall be
the portion of their cup" How about
this: ''The wicked shall be turned into
nell (SheoD, and all the nations that rOr-
get God" Will Mr.. V try his
scholarship on this passage, and see if
he can make sense Out of it; if this
means. "There Is no hell?' But it is
an lug ly word;o but suppose you go
through your Hebrew bible and blot
but so many PASSAGES, to which there
can be no sense attached And then it
only remains to cast away the ''Old
book" as SenSeleSS.
SO Of the New Testament. Our Lord
Jesus Christ'S teachings, and his
apostles instructed by Him, wrote the
New Testament. There is confirma-
ton of the Old Testament's all through
it. As He taught this, "he that be-
lieveth and is baptized shall be saved,
and he that believeth not shall be con
demned." Eleven times in the New
Testament have we the words gehenna
repeated and properly translated 'hell''
and declared to be the abode of the
finally impenitent, 1.-THE devil and his
angels. after the judgment of the great
day. Then will be set the unchange-
able ''seal:" He that is unjust, let
him be unjust still; and he that is
filthy let him be filthy still; and he that
is righteous let him be righteous still;
and he that is holy let him be holy
still.'-Rev. xii, XII. Harken? IF any
man shall add unto these things. God
shall add unto him the plaques that are
written IN this book, and if any man
shall take away the words of the book
of this prohecy, God shall take away
his part of the book of life. and out of
the holy city and from the things that
are written in this book. "-Rev. xxi.
Xvii-Xviv. Best not interfere with the
Blessed Old Book. Obey it and be
good! DAVID T1CE.
Minneapolis, Nov. %, 1890.