The herald., 1897-05-31
DR.. Thomson Examines
Truth About He'll
WHAT IS THE "REAL MANI"
THE SUBJECT OF BURT ESTES
HoWARD's DISCOURSE
Joseph Wilde, the Talmage Of Canada,
breaches on "Hidden Things"
DR.. Munhall's Sermon

Yesterday morning the pastor of
Unity church, j. s. Thomson, preached
sermon ON "Chrlst's Doctrine About
HELL" using the text, "He shall reward
every man according to his works"
Matthew 1927. Trinitarian creeds
teach that eternal hell is the future des-
tiny Of every one that does not accept
certain metaphysical beliefs, such as
the fall of man, total depravity, imputed
Righteousness, and a devil that has con-
quered God at every point since he shook
the dust Of heaven off his feet. devil
that has won q million souls for every
one that God has been able to save.
Orthodoxy teaches that good works
cannot save soul from hell, because
they are filthy rags" II they do not
adorn Trinitarian myths; 1t teaches that
the vilest murderer may go to heaven
from the scaffold II he will believe in q
few absurd and immoral doctrines; and
II declares the moral victim goes to hell
because he did not trust in a scheme of
salvation that the very devils. to do
them Justice, never had the face to ac-
cept, so far as we know. Orthodoxy
teaches that man may SOW the seeds
Of sin all his life, and that when he is
dying. he can transfer all his guilt to
another and then rise into glory.
This immoral, irrational and barbar-
GUS teaching encourages vice: and it
has given us q Christendom with cities
which are sinks of pollution; and our
civilization, which has been under it's
immoral influences for centuries, is full
of dishonesty. adultery, murder, cruelty
and social disturbances. Constantinople
is just as moral as New York. Toxic is
more moral than Chicago. Delhi is a
pure city compared with San Francisco.
Old pagan Rome had no more sins than
modern Rome. Paris and London may
well blush when they study the morals
OF Pekin and Hong Kong. The millions
Of Hindoos, Buddhists, Mohammedans
Jews, Christians and heathen that are
now living on this planet, will go to hell,
with the exception of few fanatics.
cranks and knaves, that profess a belief
in this horrible doctrine.
Lincoln, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes,
Bryant, Lowell. Moses, Socrates, Plato,
John the Baptist, are in hell, according
to orthodoxy, for they never took ad-
vantage OF the theological bankruptcy
act. Christ came to preach the gospel,
the good news: but orthodoxy can tor
ture the word gospel 80 that 1T signifies
the damnation OF nearly all Gods human
children. If Christ's doctrine of hell had
been preached from the pulpits for CEN
turtles, we would surely have nobler
moral order upon the earth now. Christ
has illustrated His doctrine of hell III
the parallels OF the Prodigal Son, Dives
and Lazarus. the marriage Of the kings
son. the ten virgins, the talents, and the
judgment; and in every one of these
parallels 1t Is shown that vice creates
hell and virtue creates heaven.
Christ's he'll is real, Just, useful, and It
cannot be escaped; but any selfish per-
son can escape the mythical hell of or
chodoxy, by resorting to a little trick,
called imputed Righteousness which
means . whitewash that it is supposed
God cannot see through. So the very
small heaven of Triritarianism must be
full OF whitewashed criminals, and,
therefore, 1t cannot be decent place for
q true follower Of Christ; and hell Is
full OF virtuous and noble souls, and it
is q better place than the mythical
heaven. We are glad to know that hell
is the dream of insane theology; and we
are still gladder to know that the myth
ical heaven Is the dream of insane self
ishness. Christ's virtuous heaven is
good enough for us; and His hell, which
educates. disciulinss. purifles and re-
forms souls. is compatible with the love
and wisdom Of our Father in heaven.
He who accepts Christ's gospel and fol .
lows His example has no need to fear
good and wise God.