Cañon City record., 1907-10-03
CSEAT INTEREST MANIFESTED
IN The BREEDEN MEETING
He'll of HeavenMany Vital
Questions # Righteous Living Ably Discussed.

"Zones to zones yet more and more
remote,
Still, still pursues where'er l be,
The blight of life; the demon, thought.
1t was the above quotation from the
professed infidel Byron that furnished
DR.. Breeden with much Of the fire"
that he sent hurtling against packed
audience at the First Christian church
Wednesday night.
Those who expected to have hurled
at them the hell of Jeremy Taylor,
who saw people writhing in an agony
of despair, with the lurid flames en-
yeloping their bodies and Kissing,
venemous serpents coiling round their
forms, and the lake of fire boiling and
bubbling with frightful energy, must
have gone away disappointed. There
was little comfort either for those
who fondly believed that little babies
a span long" were occupying posi-
ton in this agreeable place. But in
removing hell from the physical sphere
into the mental and moral, the doctor
did not reduce the temperature nor
did he offer much hope for the man
who is willing to risk an encounter
with the Internal powers because ply
sical suffering will be no part of the
necessary consequences of the terrors
of a law that a man by his own folly
has caused to be fulfilled in his own
soul.
DR.. Breeden said: Tonight we ask
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exist in any world apart from wretch
edness; can sin exist in any planet
without suffering; can the great law
of cause and effect be abrogated in
order to save a man from the conse-
uuences Of violating that very law?
In the very nature of things I assert
that there must be hell. But where
is hell? Has it geography? Has
it borders? Is it bounded by any
country, any stream, or any chain of
mountains? No, it has no bounds; it
is not limited to any particular sphere,
it is everywhere in the world of sin,
in the universe of crime.
But by all those figures, by the
lake of fire, by the Gehema outside
of the walls of Jerusalem, where all
the refuse of the city was thrown for
consumption, it is intended to convey
to the mind of a man what hell in
its moral, spiritual, and mental sense
really is. But the figurative flames
are hotter and more intense than the
physical flames, even though the
furnace be heated to seven times its
wont.
"Some men can endure any amount
of physical suffering; they can thrust
their hands into the flames and have
them incinerated, but lash them with
the whip of memory, envelop them
with the flame OF conscience, and they
cannot endure it.
at is told that during the civil war
a man separated from his regiment
and cut of from all humanity had his
leg shot OF by ball that came from
the distance. There was no help for
him, so he placed his rifle barrel in
the fire and when it was red hot he
applied it to the wound and stopped
the flow of blood; but some time after
that he got into an alteration with
his brother and killed him. Then
lashed by the flames of conscience
and remorse he killed himself. He
could endure the physical fire Of the
red hot gun barrel, but the flames Of
conscience, of memory. of remorse,
drove him to self destruction. He'll
is in the soul Of man; 1t is in sinful
human nature and never will be eradi-
Gated except by the love Of God in
voked by the penitence OF man."
Notwithstanding the rain and the
wind storm that gathered about 7:30
last night, the people came out and
the auditorium at the Christian church
was filled to hear DR.. Breeder on