The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-01
.EXPIA1ION
NOT TO. BE, !:
ETERNAL. ! { ! !. A |.
Sermon Of DR.. Strange
on3Life After Death.
.Hls.DISC COURSE. J
CAUSES COMMENT.
Rector Does Not Endorse the
Doctrine Of Eternal Pun
ishnent .@
A DISCOURSE SUNDAY i. q. h
NIGHT ON GAMBLING
IHe Glasses ItaAlong With the
5 Crime 81 Theft The Taking
OF Something for Which
sI Nothing is Given il Re-
turr-Thc Substance OF 4,
His Two Sermons:
A DISCOURSE SUNDAY q. q. \.
NIGHT ON GAMBLING ]

From the pulpit OF st. Paul's on Sun.
day morning a last the Rev. s5s Robert
Strange, D. D., the distinguished rector
OF the congregation. preached a notable
sermon that has attracted widespread In
t.rest and comment Throughout the city,
In the course OF his discourse Dr..
Strange. dealing with the eternal justice
Q. the Almighty. touched at length upon
the relation OF man to God after death.
He established the truths gof the right.
eousness, tho justice and the mercy OF
God and from this point advanced to q,
consideration OF the incidental question
The Scriptures, he declared. must he
read lin tho light OF these llumiHaN the
truths and then will be seen the neces-
slty for q modification OF many popular
conceptions Of the rclect''i and of moe
scribablc torment In the fires Of hell.
BIZ According to a. prominent mem per OF; OF
the congregation Z who spoke ,inS glowing Il1
terms Of. the sermon aud who re ported
many other express ions OF IN, Ike sort
ii n probably grew out OF. DR.. Strange,,s 81,
recent perusal of the very striking and and;
remarkable volume Of Arthur Oh ambers.
entitled n.Our Life After Dea tn, now
in jts forty.sev..nth edition. The idea
IN tf1isS book and the Idea OF DR.: Strange
49, or seems to be, that as a. man Eves
upon this earth, SO shall he be Juoseu.
But even after death there Is nope tor
him. Punishment for O temporary, ana
si,i,o ain is not eternal and Infinite, and
there Is no such thing us lnuesciA Aueotc y
torment in an eternal hell.
The Sermon.
Tho sermon was preached before a
large and appreciatlve audience. J was
oased upon the text Shall not tno
Judge of all the earth be rlght: ~
Strange said In part:
GOOD shall Judge the world In risht-
,ousness. God Judgment, In answer TO
-he question OF Abraham, was Just ana
ncrciful: His Judgment, as portrayed py
g;nr ord Christ in the parallels IN the
with chapter OF ST. Matthew'S gospel'
! along the lines Of natural 1ustlce'
which we see working out AROUND y vs. y
\ good, q right, q just deed IS one "liicll
sur conscience approves; one ll "l'cll ~ ~
tho very constitution OF OUT ha.u!'.. :
f,now instinctively to bo good wnlcf,
In spite OF ourselves. We feel we must
dn o,,rselves or approve others for doing
ff-"A thing is right and good, not because
cod Wills It arbitrarily to to SO, but be-
,n,1se He Himself. In the very constltu,
zion OF His perfect nature, Is right ana
good, and so cannot will otherwise 'S'1s t1an 'lt
the good and RICH 90
EnNan Is made In the image o. Zoo
/, ,ter the lIkoness OF God. What Is true
for - man is true for God; what Is Just
ly FOR man man is just for God; what Is good
for far man man is good for God, remembering
aIways that. whereas the soandnsss' JUS
80 and goodness are imperfect IN man,
t,,ay ara absolutely perfect In God:
'nss $50 wi We say that tho judge Of all the b,
earth viii do right, will be just, VIII
earn "a, ,,ercful:0 r be ecause the Judge Of all
he ~ .sarh in tho very essence me-, =, Of o1d nis
being, is right Just, s meIc.1qi re. y a,a;
nv,eos,i 7naes will be Be- right, just. merciful tho
gords uus mean the samo as when We apply
Wo,u9 VIZ ~ The noblest and truest OF our
''"planting = our feet on the righteousne
the justice and the mercy o. eternai 600