Telegram-herald., 1891-10-05
HE'LL AS Hustled SEES IT.
a Plain and Practical Sermon Toi
Reasoning Mortais


The Plainfield-ave. Congregational
church Was crowded to its utmost ca
pacity last night to hear what the pas
tor, the Rev. j. T. Hustled. had TO cay
about "Heli: what is it, where is II, and
how long will it lasl?' Taking his text
from from ST. Luke, 18th chapter, 4th
and 5th verses, the speaker said that
the subject was one OF great and deep
interest 10 all. 1t was too solemn for
wit, too serious for ridicue. Il should
be dealt with with the severity OF JUS
tice. still with heart of charty Tor
those VINO think differently from our
selves. The man vino puts out the
light house lamps and imperils the
ships that sail the sea is bitterly con-
demned; and the man who would build
a fire on a rocky coast 10 ensnare the
vessels TO destruction is still greater
VILLAIN. Bnt the man who puts out the
red signal lights that God has hung
out is brought into self-condemnatlon
as well as that of the universe.
"What is Help In A strict theologl-
cal sense it Is that state and place of
the wicked III the future. There are
five words translated hell IN the Bible.
meaning literally grave, unseen world,
intermediate place for the soul between
death and judgment, and place for the
soul after judgment. He'll is wherever
love 10 absent, IN this world or IN any
other No one knows where the loca-
ton is in physical sense. 1t snot so
much outside of us as II is inside. The
wicked make their own hell. History
on the subject of hell might he divided
into periods. From 20 to 254, the early
fathers OF the church held notions OF
hell that were gross and terrible. 1t
was believed to be eternal by most of
them. The cOmbustible materials of
the fire they believed to be the sine
consuming the conscience. From 254
to 730, hell was desbribed to be the
sufferings of the lost as the opposite of
the pleasures of the saved. Many
believed the fire of hell to
be mate-ial. Some taught degrees
of suffering and of duration.
From 730 to 1917. He'll was described as
divided into different apartments: A
place for devils, and those who had
committed mortal sins: and Hadee,
which was subdivlded into purgatory,
limbo and Abraham's bosom. The
punishment was considered eternal. 1t
WAS the age of Calvin and Knox, Of
Milton and Bunyan. From l5l7 TO the
present time the opinions of He'll have
been modified by the different denomi-
nations. During this period the thirty
nine articles of the Episcopal church
have been written and accepted, and
not one of them treats of Hell. OF the
twenty-five articles of the N. +. dis
cipline, not one is upon the subject
He'll. There are also tiiose to be found
who think man may 60 TO Hell for a
certain number OF years as a man
might go to prison, and then be re-
leased. But If tins theory be true there
is no necessity for work of Christ.
Some believe IN annihilatlon. but anni-
hilation is gross msterialism cbristened
and called religion. To believe it one
would destroy the wisdom of God, the
Justice of God. 1t is repugnant TO the
feelings of Justice as the idea OF nell
fire. No orthodox theologlan ever
taught that hell fire was material,
because they were all logiclans;
they call the soul i'm material,
and would never teach that
sn immateral thing could be ef-
fccted by that whrh was material.
Deat1 is UiItb INV bictbti "OtaN, ih
which We must grow and develop. The
first step after death borders on the
last step before the curtain falls. Death
is a hyphen not a period. In this age
il Is believed that the FIRE of bell Is not
matoriaI--It is no longer held that
children go to hell, or that baptism
gives the right to go to heaven. The
speaker did not believe that all who are
out of denomination are lost. 81 be-
lieve that heaven Is larger than all of
u.s." II any man is saved II is through
the Lord Jesus Christ. not through suf-
ferings in this world or in any other
world. In summing up, Mr.. Hust ed
gave as his own belief that hell u the
effect of sin. the harvest of wrong
dong, soul without love, purity, good,
JOY or hope: That hell is the soul of
every sinner: And that IL will last as
long as the evil effects Of sin will last.
lie believes that the judgment will be
right, and right forever: That the
place where the wicked shall live in
the future will be the best place in the
universe for them.
"God can't make heaven for any
nav who carries bell in his pocket. IL
is not so important to get people ous of
hell as to get hell out Of people"