The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-09

dl1erences in attributes, powers and quail
tiles are differences as in degree of per-
fiction, not in the essential constituent ele-
ments of fire, and are known to us by in
duction from the facts revealed In Holy
Scripture in relation to the reprobate, the
fire, the torments inflicted, the Immortality
and eternity of the reprobate and the ele-
ments of his tortures.
How astounding the words of st. Paul
(Heb. X, Sd: 1t is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God But
when we contemplate the beneficent good
ness of the Creator, His providence and
love, and, above all, His infinite mercy,
Offering pardon and forgiveness and
pleading with the sinner, through his
church, to accept His gifts, to be recon-
ciled and restored to order and service.
and see the sinner, on the other hand,
fail to appreciate the goodness of God
in his regard and reject all the advances
of divine mercy; then we cease to be as
tonished that mercy gives way to justice
for the vindcation of the sovereignty of
Cod who enforced all His precepts In the
earlier dispensations by the declaration.
I am the Lord. Terrestrial fire is a gift
Of Providence; Internal fire Is an instru-
ment of divine justice. Fire takes many
different names, according TO the elements
generating heat and light, which are the
dominant properties of fire and ordinarily
present together in every fire. Metals
burn, stones and clays burn, the oxygen
of the air buIns-thus we have lightnings
blast furnaces and volcanoes. All differ
In accidental properties, but have this in
common, that, acting as causes they pro-
duce the same results If brought under
intelligent control The fire of hell is mol
ten fluid, for it is perfectly adapted to re-
ceive and contain bodies and interpene-
trate them. As darkness Is inconceivably
an element in lntensifying the desolation
of the woe of the damned as light would
be to some degree an alienation, a miti-
cation of the extreme of misery, the fire
of hell, it is concluded, emits no consol-
ing light. It's office is to burn, torture
and lacerate.-St. Thomas Supplem., q.
81, a. 4.
THE disposition-the conditioned hell
will be such as the supreme misery of the
damned demands There is light or dark
ness, as the one or the other is instru-
mental or effective in promoting or Sc
curing the supreme end of their existence,
the deepest possible suffering Of the repro
bate. There is enough light, of a dismal
and obscure nature, for them to see the
Instruments of their torture, the cause of
their woes-for this of itself intensfffes
their afflction. The fire of hell is in per-
feet combustion, and therefore emits no
smoke. The soul is agonized in the ex-
treme of misery and sadness as it appre-
bends the fire and the instrument of di-
vine justice for its affllction. The distress
is keenest as it sees itself, though destined
by creation to be united to God and to en-
joy God. subject, nevertheless, to things
of a lower order than itself
again, it is held that the soul suffers
as the sentient life-principle of the body
If fire be applied 10 the body while in
union with the SOUL as 1t Is, the human
person that suffers. This faculty of suf-
ferIng through the senses is of the es-
sence of the soul, and remains after sepa-
ration from the body. If fire naturally can
afflict the soul through the medium of the
body by its heat, there is no reason why
God cannot use fire as an instrument to
inhict pain on the soul directly and i'm
mediately Such Is the power of God as
shown by the works Of our Savior re-
corded in the gospel.
"Schmid says: Demons endure the true
pain of real burning through fire as an
instrument Of divine justice. Besides the
faculty of understanding and of willing
intellect and will in created pure spirits
they may possess a definite, limited pow
er of movement in space, subject to the
resistance offered by external bodies. In
sistance and therefore act on demons If
bodies could offer no resistance to pure
spirits, an angel (eYen a fallen angeD
might throw the universe off its base and
destroy all living creatures
"This induction explains the sense OF
pain that may arise from the resistance
of bodies A spirit inclosed by a body Of
fire. which resists all its efforts to escape
this instrument Of ebe punitive justice
of God. suffers through its essential fac
lulty of perceiving physical affection of a
painful nature, and in proportion to it's
demerits as the divine oTnipotence brings
that passive faculty into play. In this
way we obtain a conception Of the man
ner in which physical, true real fires pro-
duces excruciating anguish and poignant
grief and woe, wholly distinct from the
intellectual, consideration Of the objective
cause. The sanction Of law rewards the
subjects who obey il and Furnishes its VI
olators. A law without sanction is no law
Al ALL Heaven is the reward Of the saints,
while the reprobates share in the miseries
of the fallen angels in whose rebellion
they have participated"
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