The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-15
new TESTAMENT HE'LL
Mr.. Wallis Second Sermon on
the Orthodox Place Of
Torment.

The Rev. Charles H. Vail, at the
First Universalist Church, last night,
delivered his second lecture on Hell"
The Universalists do not believe in a
place. of eternal punishment, and Mr..
Wallis lectures define the position they
take in regard to the hell other re-
ligious bodies preach about. The salient
features of his discourse last evening,
which was on '"The New Testament
Hell-Hades," were:-
I'VE saw in the lecture last week
that notsone of the sixty-four passages
containing the word He'll in the Old
Testament denote a place of endless
woe. Whence then came the modern
idea of help
Mr.. Vail traced the meaning and use
of the word in heather. literature, show
ing that the modern ideas of hell are
derived from that source.
The word Hades," he continued, lis
used in the New Testament eleven times.
Ten times it is rendered He'll and once
Grave 1t means literally the grave or
death, and. figuratively. destruction, cal
amity or punishment in this world"
THE USE OF HADES.
The preacher then took up and dis
cussed each instance of its use. Par
ticular attention was given to the para
BILE of the rich man and Lazarus. He
showed that its application is not local
but national. 1.-The rich man in purple
and fine linen, having good things ana
ICES the unbelieving Jews in their day
of strength and authority. His death.
burial and Weakening to ormen IN Hell
symbolizes the changed estate OF the
chosen people, when their nation was
ov~erthrown, their temples destroyed'
their prestige gone, and their suprem-
acy passed over to another and quite
different people. Lazarus, on the other
la-l thncaL an whom the
Jews had frowned, particularly the I'm,
believing Gentiles, who, in the national
revolution, pass from a state OF depend
ence and humiliation to that OF influence
sation. In their national lifetime the
Jews had their good things and the
other people had their evil things, In
their national death the tables are turn
as a controlling influence in the world,
and the common people among them
and the Gentiles were to be exalted IN
the new order of things.
THE RICH MAN DIED.
1.-THE rich man died and was buried.
This class died officially, nationally;
their power departed. The, beggar also
died. The Gentiles, publicans and sin.
ners were translated into the kingdom of
God. This is the meaning of Abraham's
bosom. The torment of the rich man
represents the misery of those proud
men when their land was captured ana
their city and temple destroyed. The
great gulf fixed denotes the separation
between the Jews and Christians. The
gulf remains today. The Jewish Church
and nation are now dead as such. They
were once exalted to heaven; they now
are brought down to hell, the Kingdom
of DEATH"
After quoting many Orthodox com
mentatorS in support OF MS poSltloH, MI.
Vail continued
Their Hades is of temporary dura-
ton. The New Testament agrees ex-
word. 1t will finally be destroyed, as
~nounce by the revelators.
Death and Hell will deliver up the
dead tina are in them. Then will be
brought about the fulillment OF the
prophesy:-
oh, death! where is thy sting?
oh, grave-hell! where is thy v~ictory?'",
Next Sunday evening Mr.. Vail will
discuss Hell Fire" the place where
'the worm dieth not and the fire is not
uuenched."