The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-25
PICTURES OF HADES.
HOW SOME CHRISTIANS RXER-
CIsED THEIR VACCINATIONS.

CISED THEIR la ASlN a AAONo'
The Tortures of the Damned Described
With Words That Caused Terror
Among the sinners-Inefable Misery
Was Portrayed.
From the Piftsbafrg Dispatch.
In one Of his moral essays Pope speaks
Of a soft DEAN" who never mentioned hell
to ''ears polite" aud adds, 10 a note, This
is fact" The "soft dean" appears from
the Guardian Of March 81. l7l3, to
have been an eminent divine, ''most ex-
acsly well bred" who told bis oongrega-
ton at whitehall that II they dId
not "vouchsafe to give their lives
new turn they must certainly go to
place which he did not think tit to
name in that oourtly audience" Many
Christian writer's, says the Pail Mall
Budget, have beel less delicate than Swifps
dean, and have condeScended to details
with both deAniteness and JUNCTION. From
the pictures which these amisble divines
have drawn Of the tortures Of the damned
James New makes an effective mosaic IN
the Nineteenth Century:
Il has been proved over and over again,
Mr. New remarks, by Others besides Jerome
aud TsrtulIian that the fire Of hell is terri
BILE reality; that 1t is corporal material;
that its constituents are probably sulphur
and fluid pitch. The sulphur stinks. This
is satisfactorily shown by quite swarm OF
| learned authorities. Infidel quibblings have
been easily quashed. How can incorporeal
spirits be burnedi Answer: By incorporeal
| fire. How can material bodies be burned for
everl Answer: BY the analogues OF the
| a A. In, hu n
| certain sailing antiseptic virtue, or again
| by an omnipotent implanting in the fire of
a certain force which burns but consumes
not.
SATAN HAD HORNS LIKE GOAT.
Cmsarius, a C!sterciau of Heisterbach.
says that in q town called Enthenich, in
Bonn, a certain Walter when sick saw
Satan, with a face like monkey and goats
horns W alter ask him about the fate of
his late master, Count William OF Juliers.
"You know, )" replied the demon, "ths dis
trict between Wolkenburg and Drachenfels.
In faith, 1 tell you that II that district and
| those mountains were both made OF iron
and set in that place where the soul Of your
| master now is, they would be molten
| dntequdm superciLfun supertus interiors
lungs poSset--in a word, before you could
| winkn The color Of hell fire is probably a
lurid green. no light but rather darkness
| visible.
There is cold in hell, but no water. 1t is not
improbable that there are corporal worms.
in the sense OF serpents, and immortal, of
| which some say they are as thick as the
rushes on the floor. There is no clock In
hell. Bridaine represents tortured being
rising from his bed Of appalling agony, aud
asking What is the timel And dull voice
out of the darkness answers, Eternity
In the very entrance and gate Of Dante's
hell quite characteristic fourteenth GEN.
fury one) are placed the apathetic, the in
different in spiritual things, a neutral sooi-
ETY., while on earth, in the matter of reli-
gious good and evil, which now fills the air
with sighs and lamentations, an air stained
by solid darkness and unpierced by the light
Of any star. Then in the first circle or limbo
the unbaptized, among whom is Virgil him.
self, desire without hope.
SCENES THAT DANTE PICTURED.
In the second are cernal sinners tossed by
| warning winds where light is silent. In
the third gluttons bitten by Cerberus. are
exposed in a sinking land to storms of
hail. In the thirdEare the prodigal and the
miser, each pushing heavy weight up a
hill with his breast. In the fifth are the
irasoible under the foul and tepid slime of
the StyRian lake. In the sixth arch-heretics
smart and agonize in tonlbs of flame. In
the seventh the violent swim in rivers of
x
trees and blasphemers writhe under q
rain Of hre.
In the eighth, or Malebolge, are simonists
with their heads downward in equal and
circular holes prophets with their faces re-
versed-both of these punishments are prob
ably new and original-public peculators ir
lake Of boiling pitch, hypocrites under
gilded hoods OF lead, sacreligists stunR by
serpents. schismatios, among whom is Ma
manned, with manned limbs, alchemists
forgers and impostors. among them Ulysses
the hero OF the Homerio poem, the victims
OF varied disease. In the ninth circle
which corresponds to the seventh or neither
Lmost Moslem hell, AL hawiyah, which.
being interpreted, is the place of precipi
tous descent. the hell of hypocrites the:last
the worst, the frozen, traitors are htll
placed; and among these. blue pinohed
shrouded in ice, and chattering like storks
are to be found the most famous of tina
crafty Grew, Lucifsr and Judas.
AT THE BOTTOM OF CHAOS.
Millions hell is situated at the bottom o
Chaos. Its description is in short, an ant
artic region OF fire and ice, Of dire hail an
evsr-burning sulphur. Its distance from
heaven is three semi-diameters Of our nun
dane system. The stature OF Satan reache
the sky. -Four internal rivers are intro
duced from the pagan theology. In thi
geographical view Lethe is also included
On the other side Of the flood of oblivio
is frozen continent Hither a
the damned are hailed by harpy-foote
Furies from beds of fire to pine In ice. Tn
gates Of hell are guarded by Death and 81
in forms too well known TO need desert
tion. BY these ideal architects a Ion
/, bridge 10 built from hell to Co the ''utmos
orbs OF this frail world" which being IL
: terpreted by Mason, is the uttermost oircl
. of the starry sphere. Millions torment
are more poetic, but less painful, we ma
: suppose, than those of the Christian fauherI
An original idea of hell was the result Q
the speculative inquiries of Jean Ha-douin
This most learned fool, as he has been somt
!, what impolitely called by Peignot, anon
the Jesuits, was a contemporary OF Pima
monti. He maintained that the rotation {
the earth was due to the efforts of th
! damned to escape from their central fire
: Climbing up the walls of hell they cause
= the earth to revolve as a squirrel its cage
~ dog the split.
= BODIES BURNED BUT NOT CONSUMED.
From the description of hell by Jonatha
: Edwards, that sturdy theologian, one ser
= tence will probably be found more tho
q sufficient: "Your bodies, which shall ha
been burning all this while in these CLOWN
flames, shall not have been consumed, bu
will remain to roost through eternity"
!. But still, even according to this amiab
ecclesiastic, the damned will have one sati
= faction. It is an i'll wind that blows M
b body good, and theirs will be the unselfs
consolation of rejecting that the sight of Il
- hell tormeuts which they suffer will exa