The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-22
A " sOOROHER."
BY REV. CARL F. HENRY.

BY REV. CARL F. HENRY.
Every little while we hear somebody
say that "all churches are pretty much
alike nowadays, nobody believes in end
less punishment any MORE" AS food for
thought l offer the following exact copy
of tract that was recently distributed
during revival" season in town not
more than thousand miles from Cleve-
land. 1t needs no comment. Read and
tremble:
LOST SOULS.
Lost souls! Can you get faint idea
of the measureless depths of meaning in
the two small words? What oceans of
tears! What eternities of despair. IRE.
deemably lost. No chance for light to
shine out on their devil-begirt, furnace
heated, pail shrouded, downward, out
ward, hellward pathway. Lost to happi
ness and holiness? Lost to God and the
redeemed! Lost to heaven and hope
Lost. and no hope of ever being founo.
Not one dim distant hope of ever being
anything but hopelessly, ruinously, de-
spairingly lost, during all the eternities
to come.
From woe to more woe; misery to
worse misery; ever always lost! Lost,
because they totu be lost. Lost, while
their bosom friend was found. Lost,
while Jesus was seeking them. and
found them lost; but they would not be
found. They might have been found,
but aoould not. They gained the world.
and lost their souls. They gained the
shadow and lost the substance; gained
the briars and lost the flower; gained
famine and lost plenty; gained foes and
lost Friend; gained eternal damnation
and lost eternal life.
lost amid the outer darkness! Lost
in the smoke and torment! Lost in the
lake of fire and brimstone Lost amid
the bowling myraids of tomenting devils,
the shrieks Of the damned; IAN horrible
tempest ten thousand thunders! Lost!
LOST! Lost! The bells of eternity
are tolling the requiem. Time warns you.
The Bible warns you. The judgments
and providences of God warn you. The
Spirit warns you. Shall you and your
loved ones be lost9 Decide now while
Jesus calls. or you are lost.
How does this harmonic with the
following words of Scripture:
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do
right? Gen. 49, %.
The kindness of God our Saviour.
Titus ga
God, who is the Saviour of all men.
Tim. 4: 10.
Far be it from God that he should do
wickedness. Job 34:10.
Kind to the unthankful and evil.
Luke 6:35.
His mercy endureth forever repeated
twenty six times in one chapter). Ps.
136.
The whole of 103rd Psalm.
The goodness of God that leadeth to
repentance. Rom. "a.
GOD ls love. John AS.
Neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present.
nor things to come, nor powers. nor
height, nor depth, nor any other crea-
ture shall be able to separate US from the
love of God. Rom. s. 80, 80.
Love your enemies, and pray for them
I'll of rarcaoufa Won. hof va mi ba .1nn
of your Father which is in heaven.
Matt. 5:44.
(If endless punishment is true we are
commanded TO love our enemies while
God damns his.l
How does the sentiment of the tract
correspond to the watchful tenderness
of the Father, illustrated by Jesus in
his reference to the fowls of the air that
are fed by Him, the hairs of our heads,
and the lilies of the field. How does it
harmonic with this: "Can woman
forget her sucking child, that she should
not have compassion on the son of her
womb? Yea, these may forget, yet will
not forget thee" lisa. 1918. Or with
this: when my father and my mother
forsake me. then the Lord will take me
up" Ps. 27:10.
Compare the author of this tracts
conception of God with the conception
of Christ as expressed in the parable of
the Prodigal Son.
This tract is fair sample of the liter
allure that is still being generally circu-
lated out of burning zeal to save souls
from tabled hell. 1t is my conviction
that for every pert son that is benefited
by such rubbish hundred persons are
taught to laugh at the efforts of the
church, and are made Disguised with
the religion of which such blasphemy is
born. The native sense of man is too
good. and his heart is too just and kind
to be frightened by such horrible ideas
about God. There is still some need of
the Universalist Church.-OnUard