The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-21
BREEDEN SAYS THERE IS NO FIRE
EVANGELIST EHAUSTS HIMSELF
TRYING TO PAINT ADEQUATE
PICTURE.

den preach. Curiosity to hear what
the evangelist would say on that crea-
ton of the churchmen, hell, filled the
pews long before the time for the SER
vices began.
Eternal sorrow and remorse rather
than a place of physical suffering, was
the hereafter that the preacher
painted. He asserted that in many
cases the lash of memory was more
severe than any possible physical suf-
fering. This makes it all the more
terrible that hell is in the soul of man.
DR.. Breeder believed that hell was a
most awful reality and that it was the
unpleasant duty of the minister to tell
about it.
So exhausted was the evangelist by
his efforts that he held no after meet
ing yesterday so that none were given
an opportunity of allying themselves
with the church. Reluctance to make
fear the actuating motive for sucn Il
step was another reason why the OPP
portunity was not given last night. The
speaker said in part:
rs there a hell?" And the beggar
died and was carried by the angels
into Abraham's bosom: and the rich
man died also, and in hell he lifted up
his VOice-Only a comma between
riches, comfort and delight and eternal
sorrow and remOrse.
Tonight we ask the great question,
can wickedness exist in any world
apart from wretchedness? can sin
can the great law of cause and effect
be abrogated in order to save a man
from the consequences of violating that
very law. In the very nature of things,
where is hell? Has it a geography?
Has it borders? Is it bounded by any
country, any stream or any chain of
mountains? Can we say. 10 here or
10 there? 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. There is no
literal lake of fire to my way of think
ing; there is no literal ocean of brim-
stone; there is no literal bottomless
pit into which the soul is cast and
there is no place where the soul is
burning with literal fire for the soul
is not combustible.
He'll In the Soul.
But by all those ngures, by the lake
of fire, by the Gehenna outside Of the
walls of Jerusalem where all the ref
use Of the city was thrown for con-
sumption, it is intended to convey to
moral, spiritual and mental sense really
is. He'll is a logical sequence of hui
man nature. perverted and by those
figures it is made vivid to
urative flames are hotter and
more intense than the physical flames
even though the furnace be heated to
seven times it's wont. No material
flames could ever be more terrible than
the flame of memory that forever lives,
than the flame of reason which sur
wives the grave or the flame of con-
science that whips you forever with
scorpions or as long as you continue
in sin.
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. 1t is told that during the
civil war man separated from his
regiment and cut off from all humanity
had his leg shot off by a ball that
help for him so he placed his rifle bar
rel 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
his brother and killed him. Then
dashed 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; it is in sinful human nature
and never will be eradicated except by
the love of God invoked by the peni-
tence of man.
Hades Is Everywhere.
1T is said that when a man becomes
insane the bells in his nature have got
put of tune, they cease to give forth |
rhythm and harmony. and so with sin !
ful man, his nature is out Of harmony |
with God and his soul is enduring the !;
.orments of hell. Milton. says:
Which way 1 fly is hell; myself am
hell
$50 that a man cannot escape it for
t is in his nature, in his soul, a neces-
;ary result of inharmony with God.
rhe man himself is hell. Ask Charles
he First where hell is, and he will tell
,ou that it is in the memory that