The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-01-04

! prison walls have no more power to con-
| fine pardoned prisoners in this world. so the
! fixed gulf will not prevent the rise into
hewness of life when the condemned shall
| receive forgiveness through Him whose
| mission it is to open the prison doors and
| set the captive free
THE everlasting punishment OF Mathew.
| XIV, 70, Is aeorien punishment, or that
| punishment which pertains to the aeon or
! dispensation. just as the life eternal Is
! the life Of the aeon or dispensation. That
| u Is corrective is clearly shown in the word
! translated. punishment which literally
! signifies pruning. Just as trees are
! pruned for their benefit, 30 God Furnishes
! sinners for their benefit
| Il purpOscly omit any ANALYSIS OF the
! several words rendered HELP I'm the RIble
I not deeming 1t necessary 10 thus extend
| TINS letter All passages Of scripture when
examined carefully, harmonige with the
above Vows. and enable US, who believe
| that the religion of Christ &c
indeed good tidings Of Joy which shall no
unto al people to look for the confirmation
OF which St. Paul in First Corinthians
NV' z-lo speaks; Then cometh the end,
when lie shall have delivered up the king
dom to God even tho Father; when he
shan have put down all rule, and authority
and power, for He must reign until He
hath all enemies under His feet. the last
enemy, death. shall be destroyed, that God
may be all in all"
Tho Universalists teach that this life
does not end tho probation of the soul;
that the next life Will be a progressive
one, where the good VIII minister to the
wicked. and that Chrfst's work will never
be finished until all souls arc saved and
perfected.
Clara Barton. the noted philanthropist. is
one of the stanchest believers in this faith,
with which SIC comforts many broken
hearts whose loved ones died without for
giveness.
Or. McG}aufTin VIII deliver a sermon on
hell at Phillips & Crews hall this evening.
giving the Universalist belief on the sub
ject.
Some poet has said:
I'VE go forth like children in the morning
Scattering, to spend the summer hours;
one his brow with laurel wreaths adjoining.
one to saunter mid n grove of flowers; |
"One to lose his way and wander. straylng |
Till twilight. frishted and alone;
one 1t may be, wearied with his playing
vending home his footsteps ere the noon.
"But whatever path 70 US IS given.
AL when the day IS done, shall meet,
And at uighf7ll. meath the stars of heaven,
Shall he gathered at our Fathers feet"
Rev. J. IT. HAIL, pastor Of the Baptist
church in Newman. and ono Of tho most
profound thinkers In tho denomination.
says:
What Is he'll? Two words are translated
heh I'm the scriptures, namely. hades ard
Gchenua-one Geek. the other a HEBREW
term. The first refers to tho under work.
place Of departed Spirits tho other to ne
valley of liinnorn, near Jerusalem. whre
All the garbage Of the city was removed and
perpetual fires kept to consume It. The
scriptures use these conceptions TO convey
TO our minds the awful and eternal state Of !
the impcnltent dead.
"Iicil as to locality. The scriptures do not
give us the locality II would be idle TO
attempt 10 determine it. Somewhere IN
'He universe is the lone land of deep de-
spair."
Hell rs 70 condition: There are two
4 neral theories as to future punishment
ho one material; the other moral The
mccoy on material pun 'shmcnt-that is
hN literal tre-comes largely from the
eiaperM imagery with which the truth Is
=. 'Htd m the scriptures. There Gre a
l'nt oi IRE ana br.mst0nc,' and 'overlast-
i- NtillInAs are used. and mo doubt. the
"e.'t'@l conception Of he'll which IS em-
erI,retatlan. .s.s,.-, - * an agent OF
punishment i'm the future world represented
..~a ly lire. ] do not believe there VIII be
2
Literal fire burns natural substances. To
luse 70 an arcnt Of punishment we must |
levc natural lod.es IN the future for u 70
,uru. l'ut the scriptures treats th1t bodies
n the future wlJ De spiritual Again, Ateal
Gre consumes burns up-nat"ral sDl-
stances. r. the9. # j. the agent OF pun.1- :
mont Ia the future ii viii consume 20 .
Is tcl,cd and their suffering will be tempot- =
-y. But the scriptures teach that they e. n
st forever and that their punishment is
,ternal still again. God punis aes for J.
n THIS world. but nowhere nor ever do
he punish with literal fire. No doubt ilf Y
MS tho most dreadful agent of pain in thi -
.lle. SIS used to teach us that the punishmen -
Nh Tho future viii be the most intense s,
The worldly if You VIII, the most dread O.
ful agent in the immatcrial world. d.
"The moral view. That Is, that the sur ~
forin~ I'm the future world for sin viii con - -
tluue to zee in nature like the suffering in1Yro
this world We win have the same moral ]
cous;l tu,. on in the future that We havey
now Now sin IS punished by remorse Off
This is intense, powerful, UNI II
l1tterable en- many instances. But there e
are distractions In the way OF the full
sway Of Justice iu This world and pallia- .
tions Of guilt Remove these and let the
0oodtldes Of holiness FAN on the soul and
there Will DO pain, anguish. woes, the ike
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