The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-25
DEPICTED HORRORS OF HE'LL SUES TO RECOVER HIS FEE
FATHER YoUMAN'S DISCOURSE
AT ST. MARY'S.
Preached An Eternal Punishment,
From Which There Is No Escape,
Except Through Repentance.

There We're many blanched faces and
fearful eyes in the Catholic church last
night when Father Youman preached
on eternal punishment, taking for his
text, Depart From Me- Ye Accused
into Everlasting Fire" The elegant
Paulist, in words that went straight to
the hearts of his hearers, painted in all
its horrors the awful punishment of
the damned.
After answering the question. rs
there hell?" he described the punish
ment as consisting in the pain of the
senses, which would be in proportion
to the crimes committed; the pain of
separation from our chief good and
from our loved one, the pain of loss
then and then only will the sinner know
what he has lost by his SHINING. then
the remorse of conscience. which will
be intensified by the thought that re-
pentance during life would have won
for US eternal bliss; and lastly he dwelt
upon the awful horrors which the lost
will feel at the thought that they must
dwell in that dark abode for all
eternity.
I'VE are supposed to live in the en-
lightened age of the nineteenth century,
where men claim there is no hell" We
all admit there is God. infinite in all
his PROJECTIONS; hence, infinite justice.
Each man has within him a law of
morality-his conscience-and every
law supposes a lawgiver. Were vice
is rampant: history and experience
teach US this; hence the eternal justice
of God demands punishment elsewhere
namely, after death. Could Jesus
Christ say to such one as Zero or
Herod, Come you blessed of my
,Father?" No, if he could l would say
There is no God. Away with him."
To me ii is blasphemy to think that
God, all sweetness and all holiness,
could say this to Nero"
Il have seen the villain who has
ruined a home, committed every crime.
go unpublished. There must be
punishment. There is a God
Reason is powerless to prove the
eternity-we need a revelation from
God TO prove this; and we have that
in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
In proportion to my crime, and ac-
cording to my crime will be my punish
ment. For example. 1 sin only once
with my body then l shall be punished
only until Gods justice is expiated.
And 1 believe that sometime, some
where this sensual punishment will
be alleviated.
Sensible punishments d. not cOnsti-
tute hell; the martyrs laughed and sang
in the flames because they had God:
and this is the punishment of hell, the
sentence of damnation, Depart from
me-
is there no pain in the heart when
you leave home, leave friends; the pain
Of separation is very cruel: and this
pain that we are separated from God
this pain must, will be, eternal. But
the pain of separation is only. the be-
ginning of hell: there follows the pain /
of loss. What is the loss of friends. of {
dear ones compared with the thought
L have lost infinite happiness?'
To this pain of loss comes the worm
that dieth not" remorse of conscience. |
The thought comes then Il could have |
been saved so easily; only to have said, I!
My God, have mercy > but it is too /
late. / could have been saved but L I
have deliberately threw away God, 1 |
have damned myself"
When he calls a soul to heaven he |
blesses it; but when he damns a soul I
he curses it. What an awful thing the /
curse of that Father who created me |
for love!
Think of hating. of cursing God. Yet
this is what we will do for there is no /
love in hell; only hatred for all that is
good, true and beautiful
God did not make hell for man, he
made it for the devil and his angels;
f man goes there it is because he
forces himself there, because he
1amns himself"
Friends, I want you to turn to Jesus
tonight and beg him by his eternal love
'or you to save your soul; to take away
rom you the curse of sin, to help you.
want you to take that sin out of your
leart, to throw it away. Do not serve
he devil; he did not die for you, he
lid not love you, he has only hatred
md hell for you; decide tonight to
serve God. If you do you will shut
hat cursed mouth of hell; then you
will live for what is worth living-God
md participate in his worship. Now
S the time. Come.