The Jersey City news., 1892-01-11
TAEEYOUR CHOICE.
Every Man Makes Heaven
or He'll for Himself
at Will.
so SAYS THIS REV. DR.. WICK.
Pastor Scudder Tells How to Choose
a Wife-Dr. Westall Explains
the Univcrsalist Creed.
50 SAYS THIS REV. DR.. WICK.

The Rev. Robert Wick of the Wayne
Street Reformed Church. preached elo
quentiy last uighJ to large congregation
on the subject OF "Hell"
There is but one moral highway in the
universe of God" said he, "and we are all
oil il. Heaven lies at one end and He'll
at the other. One of these places is the
destination OF every man on earth.
Heaven or He'll; eternal joy or eternal
punishment are the alternative OF every
mans life. l have no apology to offer for
preaching the same doctrine that
Daniel. Isaiah. Paul. John and even
the Blessed Master preached. The super
cil.ous sentimentality OF this age revolts
at this doctrine. I. myself. am not in
Iatuated with it, but my likes or dist1kes
cannot turn the truth into Il lie. Do not
quarrel with your preacher for pre&ching
This doctrine, but carry your quarrel up
to the Great Commander.
1T seems to me that people who are
striving to get into Heaven me ely to
keep out of hell are animated by unwor-
thy motives. / know thar some men dis
like this doctrine so much that they have
spelled nell entirely out OF their creed.
and having given God the lie i'll one par
ticular, they do not hesitate to continue
thus.
'.rhe foundation of hell was laid deep
in the world when the first sin was COM
mitted Christianity did not invent he'll.
The Lord Jesus set TO work TO show the
world that before it Turks an awful
chasm. am tempted to believe that this
state or condition which man ana God
Term hell is structure reared by mans
own hands, aud that God has had little to
do with it. believe that there is Il law
in the spiritual universe that
is Just as stern, just as inexorabe as the
law i'll the natural universe, which is
that whatsoever u man soWeth that also
shall he reap [ am glad to say, in VIM
Gcation OF Gods blessed name, that | be-
lieve that God, even rs He had little to
do with starting nell. so He, in His
great mercy, sent His dear son, our Lord
Jesus, to open the eyes of the world to
TINT awful posterior condition.
".Ihe wicked shall go TO everlasting
darkness because there is no other place
for them.
GOD AND NATURE.
III there is Il man VINO says his God is
too rilerclful to visit q mans iniquities on
his own iniquitous head, he must admit
that nature is not. IL is a law of nature
that sin draws it's own punishment.
When bad man dies unrepentant he
goes down TO he'll, forced by influences
that he himself has instituted. With
heaven because it would be he'll to MIN.
'.The Bible makes the assertion that
the sinful soul will continue to he sinful,
and sience seems to confirm 1t. Ii the re-
ward is eternal so is the punishment.
have not yet heard OF nny of the critics of
the doctrine who object TO going TO
heaven.
Thousands of people are waiting with
folded hands to have some man with
great intellect come along ana show
them that there is a mistake some
where. just rs Il this matter
had not been settled when men began to
rear the wallis of their prison houses. Ii
there be no he'll we might as well shut up
our churches for we are preaching u sal
vation that saves from nothing.
II beg you, for the great shadow that
this dark place throws on the world. tnat
YOU 20 out and lift on high the great white
cross OF Christ which beams from out the
dark