The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-01-20
we'll knew that ''hc that bclicvcth not
shall be damned.

we'll knew that he that bclicvcth not
shall be damned. >
And then
The heaven shall pass away with a
great noise, and the elements shall
melt with fcrvcnt heat, the earth also
and the works that are therein shall
be burned up. II Peter. iii, TO-
The sun became black, and the
moon became rs blood :" Revelations,
vi. T..
".And the stars of heaven fell unto
the earth. 18th verse.
"And the heaven departed as 4
scroll, when it is rolled together, and
every mountain and island were moved
out of their places ;-ith verse.
And Richard and Daisy now vail
out TO the mountains and rocks to
fall on US and hide us from the face of
Him. 10th verse.
And the awful panorama Of cXplod-
ing worlds and melting and weeping
stars all wrapped in red folds of that
great contlagration passes by. Christ
brushes the smoke away, and as the
fierce and colossal conagration sweeps
through the endless fields of space,
licking up every world but heaven and
hell The awful assiZc continues.
The avalanche quivcrs, and soon will
descend Now. It's over The great
Judgment is over! Then Christ
wheels his angels and redeemed in
line. The clarion trump sounds, and
the heavenly procession starts home
ward. Pronouncing the curse upon
the doomed, depart from me, yc
cursed, into everlasting fire. And
then Jesus starts homcward. And
dangling in space, and screaming and
squirming, and interwrappcd about
each other like worms of pcrdition,
the doomed present an awful writhing
mass. until the devil wheels them into
line and darts hcllward with his damn
ed. Then Jesus, majestically tread
ing ether, mounts foot over foot the
cmpyrcan heights, the archangels, an
gels and redeemed straining their
wings to keep up with their King and
| God.
LOOKING DOWN AT HE'LL.
But ah Christ pauscs in midair
and with that finger of the hand once
nailed to Calvary's cross, he points
down through space to faint dark
streak going downward. Tis the
devils and the damned and their
shrieks and walls can just be heard.
And as those faint, despairing walls
reach us, We realize as never before
what we owe our Lord for our marvel
Gus salvation from hell.
And dashing up to, and forming a
circle about Him, We cry, son !!
blessed Jesus, We praise and adore
Thee, thou King of Kings and Lord
of Lords. And we do so thank and
love Thee for Thy abounding goodness
love to US. And may unto Him that
loved US and washed us from our sins
in His own blood, and hath made us
kings and priests unto God and His
Father, to Him be glory and domina
tion forever and ever. Amen. -
And 10 ! our acclamations roll along
the corridors of space to the uttcrmost
circumference thereof Then upward
we sweep again. Will heaven never
be reached ? Yes, indeed londcr
it is There are the gates Of pearl
And look, there are the tops Of the
glorious mansions lie hath prepared
for us. seen above the walls Of the
blessed city-the continuing city
And dashiug up to the great gate,
our Christ in commanding tones shall
cry out, lift up your heads, O! yc
gates, even lift them up yc eyerlast-
ing doors, and the King Of Glory shall
come in. And then some guardian
angel left within the walls shall say,
"NNho is this King Of Glory p And
our Christ shall say, "Thc Lord of
Hosts, lie is the King Of Glory =
And we sweep in and actually, thank
God we have gotten home.
Here is the land of transcendcnt
glorics, of imposing splcndors. The
land Of the great white throne Of res
plcndcnt beauty completed and crown
ed by the liking in His beauty and
archcd over by the emerald rainbow.
And from underneath the throne there
bursts the crystal river Of eternal life,
on the banks Of which snowy winged
angels live. who make heaven vocal
with goldcn-toncd oratorics and sOftest
anthems, all sung to the praises OF
our God and the Lanb-and this is
heaven.
But is this all of eternity? No!
no Are the damned annihilatcd ?
No Better thousand times for
them if they could be. But they have
insulted God so often, so coolly, and
so dehantly: and troddcn Jesus, His
honorcd and beloved Son, under so
many times and qucnched the loving
Holy Spirit 50 often, that hell how is
Justly their portion forever
TIE ORIGIN or HELL.
Jesus Christ named this lone land Of
black despair, he'll. 1t comes from
the Greek word Gchcnna, which has
reference to an awful yallcy-the val
ley Of Iinnom, outside of Jerusalem
In this valley fires were kept constant
ly burning. The idolatrous citizens
of Jerusalem would take their chill.
drcn, accompanied by noisy band Of
drummers. out to this horrible valley
and sacrifice them by throwing them
into the rci-hot arms of their god
Moloch, whom they had built in the
center Of the valley.