The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-30
is A BELIEF IN HE'LL "UN-CHRIS.
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One of the most interesting cOntro-
versies which has been developed in
connection with the anctcs of the
pocket Lothario Claude Bernard has
grown from an editorial in The News
and Observer of last Sunday in which
it was stated that if the ex-District
Attorney was guilty, he should be SEN
fenced to 200 years in the penitentiary
and a million years in hell. That ex-
preston was of course descriptive and
spoken without authority. If one can
believe the Bible, however, ii not only
nearly fits the case but was merciful
suggestion. And yet there has been
apprehension and grave remonstrance
from several quarters at the use of the
phrase. We yet fail to appreciate the
motive of the tenderness expressed in
view Of the character of Demands ac-
ton, but we had laid it up to the fact
that of late years hell had become, so
to speak. unpopular" The use of
such word CRATES on over-sensitive
nerves: it is to some people more than
impolite: it is indicate. Yet the word
itself is a fine one and it is quite de-
scriptive. In cases of the Bernard
sort, politeness goes bv the board. The
offense needs a strong word. Hell
seemed to fill the bill.
We were surprised, however, when
DR.. Ivey, of the Christian Advocate
came so far to Bernards defense as
to criticise the sentence suggested for
him. He calls it "un-Christian." He
cannot understand chow one writing
from the standpoint of Christian
morals and the supremacy of law can
feel himself justified in using such
words. In the name of spiritual and
civil law and all righteousness" he
calls on The News and Observer to
modify it's shocking statement"
We had harbored a suspicion that
DR.. Ivey believed in He'll. Surely, IL
preached it. The "outer darkness"
has not heretofore been without his
domain of thought. He is saver of
souls'-from what? Has he not held
up to contemplation the very 'hell'
from which he now draws back in
horror at the suggestion? Has he not
made the escape from torment an in
cidental inducement to a striving for
the delights of paradise? Why, there
fore DR.. Ivey's heat? The crime is
bad enough in all conscience. If ''helr'
waits on anything, it does for that of
which Bernard was guilty. Men of
Bernard's stripe make hells as they
take their walk through life. Should
they not reasonably be supposed to
profit by their own building?
But DR.. Ivey says the sentence is
''un-C Christian" Since when? Does the
Doctor believe the Bible? We take it
that he would admit the fact. The
Bible speaks of the Bernard sort in a
way which does not look for euphem-
ISM as vehicle. Is the editor of the
What does the Book say? Here are a
few extracts somewhat fitting the case
cleaned in hurry, a few from many
like deliyerances:
st. Paul to the Ephesians, chapter
5, verses and G.:
For this We know, that no whore
monger, nor unclean person, nor covet-
Gus man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
and God.
Let no man deceive you with vain
words: for because of these things
cometh the wrath of God upon the
children of disobedience.'
st. Paul to the Hebrews, chapter
IS, verse 4
Marriage is honorable in all. and
the bed undefiled: but whoremongers
and adulterers God will judge.
Revelations, chapter q, verse s:
But the fearful and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers,
and whoremongers, and Sorcerers, and
adolaters, and all liars, shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with
fire and birthstone; which is the sec
ond death"
Revelations, chapter %, verse Is:
For without are dogs, and sorcer-
ers. and idolaters, and whosoever
loveth and maketh lie.'
Leviticus, chapter 20, verse 10:
And the man that committeth
adultery with another mans wife, even
he that committeth adultery with his
neighbor's wife the adulterer and the
adulteress shall surely be put to
DEATH
Isaiah, chapter 81. verse 81, con-
GLIDING a prophecy to unclean men:
There is no peace, saith my God,
to the wicked"
Malachi, chapter 3, verse 5:
"And | will come near to you to
Judgment; and / will be swift wit
ness against the Sorcerers, and against
the adultererS, and against false