The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-08
DEATH ENDS HOPE OF WICKED.
REV. A. j. SMITH QUOTES SCRIP
TURE TO PROVE ETERNAL HELL.

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He'll Not I'm This Life, hut Belongs to
the HercRfter-No Chance to BE
Saved After Denth-ReV. MIR. smith
IA Believer i'm Eternal Punishment.
If He'll Is Not Eternal, lie Says,
There Is No Eternal Heaven.
Rev. Arthur ]. Smith of the First Pres
byterian Church preached on He'll last
night His text was The wicked shall
be turned into hell and all the nations
that forget God" Psalms 9:17.
There are many words used in the Bible
to designate the place where the lost shall
spend eternity. said Mr.. Smith. In the
Old Testament the word sheol, meaning
pit or Lowest pitt or grave" Is used
1t occurs 81 times and only twice does
1t mean grave. In the New Testament
is the word gehenna, which meant in the
olden days the valley of Hinnom, where
the worship of Moloch was established,
but was also used to designate the place
of punishment Hades is another Greek
word That is found frequently in the New
Testament. II means the place of de-
parted spirits. Tartaros is also found.
It means deepest abyss of hades."
THE lost world is described as
a place dn Matthew, 25:4D, not
a condition." said Mr.. Smith. at
is prepared place (Matthew, 25:4D, a
place of damnation (Matthew. 1888, a
place of torment duke 1928, a place OF
anguish (Matthew. s12, place of .un-
rest Revelations. 141D, place of dark
ness (Matthew, 1911, u and 49,. 1t is
place where spirits shall be punished and,
therefore. the punishment is spiritual. The
language in the Bible is figurative. Fire
and birthstone do not express the awful
ness of the burning In the lost world.
The wicked shall be there psalm 9:1O,
Those who have transgressed Gods law.
Those who forget God will be there
psalm SID. Those who neglect to read
the Bible, to pray, and attend church. All
who know not God will be there QI Thes-
salonians ~. Those who have never come
into close personal contact with God and
have never known him as father. Those
who obey not the gospel Will be there Oh
Thessalonians 1:S). Those who hear the gos
pei and turn from it, refusing to heed ii.
Wicked angels viii be there CMatthew %.
4D, and last of all the devil will be there
(Matthew 25:4D. Where is the last
world, here or hereafter? The
punishment for sin is spiritual,
man is not spiritual, therefore hell is
not here in this life. Man does suffer
when he breaks one of Gods laws, but not
in the way he will if he persists in break.
ing Gods laws till death.
In Hebrews 9:27, we read" said Mr..
Smith, that the judgment is after death.
The last world comes after the judgment
in its fullest sense, therefore it is not in
this life. The lost is said to be away from
God In Matthew 25:4 and as, we read
that lost souls will be sent away from
God He is said to be omnipresent, and
power to comprehend. Away from Col
means separation from all that Is beaut-
full joyous, and peaceful"
as there a chance for a man to be saw
ed after death?" Mr.. Smith asked. From
a casual reading of II Peter, 3:19, one might
think that there was, but a study of the
question as taught in all the Bible leads
me to believe there Is none. Some say
Christ went and preached to the Antede-
luvlans in he'll, and that some of them were
saved. The Bible does not say that any
were saved, or that He preached to any
other class than the Antedeluvians. Some
scholars of the church believe He did not
preach in the evangelistic sense, but that
He proclaimed or heralded His finished
work The church is divided on the in
depreciation of this passage of scripture.
There are so many passages that teach
with very RTtdL GREATNESS mat lDGtS IL
no hope after death. In Isaiah (3819, it
s said that those who go down to the
pit cannot hope for Gods truth. Proverbs
Ql:O says when a wicked man dies his ex-
pectation pertshes with him. In Luke
Q6:26) we are told about the great gulf
that has been fixed between the lost world
and heaven, and that there is no. crossing
over"
1.-THE Bible teaches" Mr.. Smith said,
that the punishment of the wicked is
eternal, and that this proves there is no
chance to be saved after death. There
are no words in the Greek language
that express eternal duration than the
word aion and the words derived from
1t. 1t is true these words do not always
mean eternal duration, but when asso-
ciated as they are one can tell their mean
ing The word Is used to express the I'M
limited duration of God Din l Timothy
I'D, of Christ lin Revelation 49, of the
Holy Spirit Gn Hebrews 9:14). 1t is used to
express the unlimited duration of the bliss
of the righteous. The references are
many l will read only few: John 6:5g:
| Corinthians 1853; Matthew 1920 1t is
used to describe the unlimited existence
of the saved and lost in one verse MAT
thew 2546) There is another Greek wore
that occurs but twice in the Bible and
once 1t Is used to describe the eternity of
God and the other time In the eternal
punishment of wicked angels. The word
is aidios The two passages are Romans
1:20 and Jude g. In the first
passage it is translated in the King
lanes version as eternal, and in the last
passage 1t is translated everlasting. Mat
thew 25:1 tells that lost men share the
fate of lost angels as does Revelation
20:10.
in the language of brother minister
in Savannah" said Mr.. Smith, 81 say, If
there is no eternal hell, there is no eternal
heaven"
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