Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-24
PEET ON RELIGIOUS REVEALS.
Continued from page 81

the fires of hell, where the whole
body was thrown, for the fires kindled
by God were a thousand times hotter
than those made by man
and in those God made fires
the sinner was roasted forever
and ever, both night and day without
recess or intermission through all
eternity, and that eternity was so
long that If a bird from another
world should come to this earth once
in thousand years and carry away
grain of sand when 1t had this
earth all removed eternity would
have just begun. He quoted line after
line of the Westminster catechism
and told mothers that they must
bring their babies and little ones to
the anxious seat to save them, and
that the man who was kind, moral
and thoughtful of others would be
cast out along with the thieves and
murderers If he did not come for
ward that the devil was like roar
ing lion, and that the rainbow and the
northern lights were emblems of hell
My mother and sisters, and most of
the audience were weeping and many
were crowding forward to the anxious
seat, screaming and imploring to be
saved Others fell PROSTATE on the
floor and cried to an angry God for
mercy. What an awful night! My
sister and / were almost frightened
to death. My father was mad and
told us to get ready to go home
while he went after the team and
sleigh What a direful, cowardly
change that one hour had brought
into my young and happy life! When
II got into the sleigh and saw the
northern lights l knew they were
| reflection from the lake of fire and
birthstone and imagined could hear
, the pitiful cry of little children and
the hoarse groans of the older people
who were being tortured there. l
thought l could see drops of blood
on the moon and that old steady was
an evil eye, watching me. The shad-
ows that the horses cast on the snow
| were roaring lions, trying to jump
into the sleigh to devour u.s. / mag
ined the dear old maple tree was
mass of flames Illuminating world of
demons.
when my sister and / went to bed
that night we did not go to the win
dow and DID OLD STEADY BOOu-nlBnI Vi
: look at the beautiful flag in the sky,
\ but we asked mother to pull down
the window curtain tight so that not
i one ray of that ugly light could pene-
trate the rooms. We thought after
that awful night that the owl and
d whippoorwill were birds of evil fore
e bodings and that their cry was
e sign of approaching death. When
,, ever we saw the rainbow we would
run into the dark closet and hide for
fear it would set the world on fire.
Our lives were filled with dread and
fear and our true, genuine, childish
happiness was entirely blotted out"
n The world is getting better. There
= is only one church that still hangs to
!, that frightful dogma founded by the
:. Westminster catechism. The preach
- err who takes eternal woe into his pull
pit today is a 2x4 and does not know
9 any better. The Universalists, the
r Unitarians, the Mormons, the Chris
tian Scientists and a few other re-
I ligious sects were never guilty Of ter
o rorizing young children and many OF
n the orthodox churches are utterly
l. ashamed of the frightful work they
/. did in early days. The coming
/. church is the one that teaches its
o. children a love that casteth out fear