The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-21

hell with all it's smoke and birthstone.
John believed in he'll
Some say. of course, that the Bible
is not all Gods word. But let me
warn those who criticise that if they
| cut out he'll from the scriptures they
must cut out heaven also.
Has Definite Location.
Regarding the geography of hell,
don't know<where it is, but I believe it
has a definite location. The Bible de-
scribes it as below down. in the low
est part of the world, as pit lake
We are told that Dives and Lazarus.
| though separated by impossible bar
| riers, are in full view of each other.
+ For the essence. of hell read the
| American revision of the Bible rather
| than any other version to get the right
| TRANSACTIONS of the words used for
| hell. But in your reading forget Dante
| and Milton, forget the old-time pic
lures of the devil and his imps; forget
| the old views of hell which were based
| on a literal translation of the Bible
| the lakes of burning birthstone. the
| hmps impaling the damned upon pitch
forks.
when man dies, his spirit, not his
flesh, passes beyond, and spirit cannot
be burned. We must take this Biblical
| language fguratively. If a doctor tells
! us that poor Mrs. Smith, his patient,
has a frightful fever and is simply
| burning up when a friend returning
| from a political meeting, remarks that
one speaker roasted the mayor we
don't think of actual flames or genuine
faggots.
| There will be no physical torture in
HE'LL but if the suffering there is not
to be absolutely inexpressible, Jesus, I
feel sure, would never have. used the
language He did; He would never have
referred to the crashing of teeth
Means Mental Suffering.
1.-THE mind, the soul, the conscience,
can suffer more than the body. No
doubt there are people here tonight
| who-should God expose to us all their
thoughts, their sins, their knowledge of
themselves-would find this church a
verftable chamber Of tortures. And the
screen will be lifted. some day.
I'VE are told sometimes, Hell is here
on earth That is partly true. He'll
| begins here, but it does not end here,
and the worst Of 1t will come after
| wards. The fullness of hell and the
wrath of God against sin will last I'M
| til the end of time; there is nothing
beyond.
L
| hell of his own accord. I don't have
faith in the revelations of Swedenborg,
| but, whether he revealed it or not, l do
| believe what he said an angel told
him-God never thrusts a man into
hell; he thrusts himself. Every man
goes to his own place after death, to
the place he prepares for himself.
Wicked men have nothing to do with
good men here; is it likely that the
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the good hereafter? The time will come
when God will wave his hand to the left
and say, Depart! And, indeed, if the
gates of heaven were swung wide
open, no lost soul would enter. The
golden streets of the New Jerusalem
would burn his feet and bid him to get
out.
Duration of hell? Doubtless for
ever. 1 don't believe the damned will
stay there simply until they reform. L
don't believe in final humiliation. He'll
will last as long as heaven-forever
and ever and ever on without end.
Escape from hell?-never.
No Deathtime Repentance.
Last Monday a murderer about to
be electrocuted at Sing Sing kept re-
peating, on his way to death. the pray
ers he learned in childhood I don't
believe it did him much good; he ought
to have begun much earlier. Another
murderer in Iowa who was executed
recently promised to return in three
days and make his presence known as
proof of an existence beyond the grave.
/ haven't heard any report of his COM
| ing back. 1 think that whoever goes to
| heaven is so well satisfied with Gods
management of this world that he has
no desire to return to it; and when
man goes to hell the devil, I'm sure,
| won't let him out again,
Neither do I believe in the opinion
| advanced by boy in a Dublin theater
lat a performance of the opera Faust
| Mephistopheles slipped down easily
through the trap-door leading to the
| internal regions; he tried to drag Faust
with him. But Faust, being very fat,
[ stuck half way down. Then boy in
| the gallery cried out, Thank God, fell
| 1ers! hells full!' No, I wouldn't risk
it. My honest conviction is that there
| Is no way of escape from hell to one
who gets there.
81 don't believe that the mass will
get a man out, my Catholic friends;
nor do believe in the power of super
errogation-that the excess of mans
| good works can be transferred to any
| one else's credit. Purgatory will not
| do it, Once in hell always in hell.
1.-THE only way to escape hell is by
not going there. The only way is to
follow the Lord Jesus Christ. ca loud
| 'AmenI' from the church gallery.
1--WE should take pity on ourselves,
stop and think. Heaven and hell are
| before you tonight. Now you can
choose your way as easily as 1 move
my hand Next year 1t may be too
late, next month perhaps, even tomor-
row it may be too late. Today is the
day of salvation. Will you choose
| Christ tonight?"