New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-04

Edwards in The Independent" gives some charac-
teristic extracts from Edwards's sermons. Il pre-
sumo says DR.. Ward, most people nowadays
think Of Jonathan Edwards principally a sui
phurous preacher of the doctrine of eternal torment
So he was. He believed in hell, and he preached it
sometimes, when he thought it needed. with
softening of its horrors. With the same stern
courage with which the eagle gazes upward at the
sun he gazed. and bade his hearers gaze down
ward into the fires Of hell. Believing in it. with
all its horrors. as everybody else did then. and
pretty much does now, he lifted up his voice TO
people. bidding them fee from wrath to
quote from one of these sermons. which were heard
with a terror which did good to many that heard
them. The proposition CT that Sinners IN the
Hands Of an Angry God was that there is moth
ing that keeps wicked men At any one moment out
of he'll but the mere pleasure Of God:
Justice calls for their punishment The
sword of justice is every moment brqndished over
trary mercy AMI Gods mere will that holds it
Ba5ers tat 3 are Is oT on egrth yea aobfiess
with ma ny that in this congregation, that
il may be- are AT ease and quiet, tlan he il with
many o. So5S ma i6 i b,rn .i Hen Gi bair
ia-,no+io- dos not eIunher; the pit is prepared :
the fire is made ready: the furnace is now hot
slew: the elitcring sword is whet and held over
them: ana the Pit hath ore1e1 her mouth under
1T is not in his printed orks. but have heard
| il said that in his sermons to the Stockbrdge
Indians he told these stOics, who would shrink
from holding a forge-heatcd gun barrel in their
hands that IN he'll they would have molten lead
poured down their threats. Whether that is true
don't know. but in his sermons to his own people
! in Northampton ne did not hesitate to use the
most terrible figures Of fire TO enforce the panEs of
perdition Let quote once more passage often
repeated from this sermon. where lie makes
the application OF his doctrine directly his hear
ers:
The God thet holds you over the pit OF hell
much as We hold spider OF some iOathSOme ~
sect over the IRE, abaors you. ana IS drcadfuliy
provoked tIS Nlatn toward You burns Ike nfe
He looks upon you worthy Of nothing else but 70
be cast into the fire. tie Is Of purer eyes than 10
bear 10 have you ia his sight. You are ten thou
sand times so abomiGaDle in his eyes as The most
hateful ana venomous serpent is in ours
There Is no other reason to be given why you nave
ing, but that Gods hand has held YOU up. There
lie no other reason to be given why you have not
gone 10 hell since you sat here in the house %
God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful
yea, there Is nothing that is to he given as q
hell
In his personal appearance Edwards was tan
and womanly. being even delicate. on MS last
Sunday in Stockbridge he read the twentieth ch"P
ter OF Acts taking fer his text I'VE have no con-
tnuing city" IT taxed all the masterful toroe !"
the man to leave his family and go TO princeton
Even after having hidden them farewell ne turilsu
back Is he leaving the yard ana sdlu'
commend you God" He had barely dsS"ineu
his duties at Princeton before he was sulcAeh WIN
the fatal attack OF smallpox
There is stll To be seen in StockbridSe wen &c
fined trail used by the Indians. II ieauS from lo
site OF the old camp through the grouhas Oh Ut
Henry II. FIELD up to the summit o. ha'iesn"Ae