The broad ax., 1897-01-30
A GEORGIA MINISTER'S Wis
IONS OF HELL

Clergyman, OF Ocorglay mas Nrftten
3 pamphlet in which he not only
maintains that there is q hell, an
actual fixed place of eternal tor
ture, presided over and governed by
q personal devil, but goes further
and gives his views as to where hell
Is In the universe and describes the
form of torment that prevails.
Here is brief condensation of
Rev. McCleskey's little book
book which has made more stir in
Methodist Episcopal circles In
Georgia than any event that has
occurred for long time.
Chapter l. is devoted to two in
cidents which the Rev. McCleskey
says a.truly occurred in the practice
of DIR. -, of Greensboro,
Ga" Here is described the form
of torment that prevails:
MISS DANCERS EXAMPLE.
"A fashionable young woman was
earnestly besought by her friends
to forsake her gay companions and
give her heart to God. Not know
ing her name, l will call her Daisy
Dancer, for a purpose. She loved
the dance, but the spirit was plead
ing with her.
1.-The hour came when she must
decide between going to revival
meetings or to the dance.
sShe was in full dress for the
ballroom, but the Spirits voice
troubled her. Her friends tried to
persuade her to decide for God and
heaven. The crisis of her life
was reached. Her voice was to
mean either heaven or hell for her
soul. She went to the piano, seat
ed herself and talked thus to the
Lord: when / strike the first
note | want the Spirit to leave me.
She struck the note, the Spirit ;e-
tired from her, and forever.
"Inside of three months she was
lying on her deathbed. Loving
friends tried to point her to Jesus
She felt nothing in her soul. The
Spirit of God was not there. By
a cool, calculating movement of her
intellect, she thought of her coffin
and called for it, hoping that the
sight of it would cause some feel
ing.
at was brought; she saw it, she
felt nothing. She then asked to be
laid in it; she felt nothing. She
then asked that the lid be put on
and they thump on it like clods
falling upon it; she felt nothing.
Not a tear could she shed. But
she was damned"
Then follows Rev. McCleskey's
views as to the geographical posi-
ton and general torture equipment
of hell, as follows:
"wHERE HE'LL is LOCATED.
81 think hell is in the centre of
some distant, dark, stationary star,
or world, in space, and the awful
crimson conhagration of that
great day Will not burn it up.
And as the avalanche of damned
demons and human beings from the
Judgment strike its gate, the gate
will open and admit them all to Its
dark, central abyss, which will then
be sealed of God for eternity. Shut
up In hell for eternity are Satan,
his demons and the damned.
"Jesus Christ says that in hell is
a lake of fire. a lake of thick,
hot water, thickened with brim-
stone and salt, / think.
Chow horriblel How soul-chill:
ing the thought A great surging,
long lake of thick, hot water, like
melted lead, shooting from its bos-
om Jets of fame and fre-occa-
sionaliy furious crimson Jets! And
this long, tossing, hot lake extend
ing along the ground of this sub
terranesn place
"a great long cavern or vault it
may be, with little cells along each
black shore of the horrid lake.
"And the lurid lights, as they
shoot from this lake, light up the
dark, rugged roof of hell, and
glance from erag to erag overhead.
And by these dark, Pickering, red
lights are seen the grinning devils
along the shores at the mouth of
the cells for the damned.
aAs the redeemed had their
ministering angels sent TO minis
Ter for them who shall be heirs of
salvation so the damned now have