The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-20
A SERMON on HE'LL
Nv Evangelist FARRELL at the Second
baptist Church revival.

Nv Evangelist FARRELL At the Second
baptist Church Revival
AT the Second Baptist church. corner Of
Hardy and Liberty streets. last night
Evangelist W. A. Jarrel, u. D.. delivered
an exceedingly able sermon on hell, The
following are some OF the points In the
sermon which could have been better APP
,preciated bv being heard:
J. Both in6dels and Christians agree
thar the Bible teaches there is a hell.
2. Both Christians and intelligent and
candid nfdels agree the Bible is superior
10 all other books,
g. This being the case. what the Bible
says on he'll can not be lightly treated by
any thinking reading and candid person.
4. To Gods government hell Is what
the penitentiarY is to the Texas govern
ment. Without the penal provision Of law
neither human nor d.1ine law Is euectual,
Buckle, Lecky, Draper. Hume and other
infidels are on record as testifyiug that
hell gives effectiveness to both divine and
human law. As the lawless against State
government are fit for only the State
prison, the lawless against Gods govern
ment have only hell-Gods prison-before
them. When Bob lngersoll's doorkeeper to
his lecture ran on with the money Bob
said; IF there is no hell for such men
there ought to be- on being swindled
Universalist remarked: III there ia no
hell for such men as swindled me there
ought TO be one" AS just and humane
State government is the guarantee OF a
State hell--the State prison--so the justice
and the goodness OF the divine govern
ment are the guarantee that, tor the pro-
lection OF the lawful and the restraint OF
the lawless, there is hell-Gods peni-
Tertiary. AS regards the State punish
ment:
No rogue who ever felt the halter draw
HAS good opinion of the law"
So only sinners-the lawless against
Gods government-fnd fault with hell
AS no State. to please the lawless. tears
down its prison walls and scaholds, God
does not, TO please the sinner. tear down
hell. As 1t is far better TO spend the time
obeying the law than in curslng prisoners
and the hangman's rope. so II is far bet
ter to spend the time in obedience to
Gods law than In caviling and cursing at
hell
8. AS in State government the criminal
while criminal must be in the State hell
so the sinner while a sinner--a criminal
against Gods government-must remain In
hell. The sinner pleads ITO send a man
TO hell eternally for what he has done In
tnlS momentafy lie ls wrong. But l re.
ply This Is like Directing 10 life sen.
tence for crime committed In one hour
The sentence in neither divine nor human
government is measured by the time ta6er
In committing the oifense Besides Will,
eternal punishment is deserved for wha
tho sinner does in this life this Is no
thu full doctrine Of eternal retrbution
The law of character Is an irreslstibl,
progress OF character to interchangeable nix.
cdness as permanency OF character, lif,
and State. BY this law the sinners soor
reach that permanency OF character tina
chains him TO permanency OF State ant
doom. where Gods arms OF love anC
mercy, being too short to reach him. Go,
says; Let him go; he Is Joined to hi
idols" OF all such. as the revised revision
correctly reads. God says: "He hath nj
forgiveness. but Is guilty OF eternal sin ,
Many on this side OF the grave hav,
y rrossNl this eternal dead line. OF suci