Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-04

gave 1T up. They have discarded it,
for sentimental reasons. SO they can
get their names. and pictures in the
papers for while. I call them black
hearted fools.
Men Believe Too Late.
That man doesn't live who can go
TO that book to find out what 1t teaches
with the desire to preach, and not
preach hell. II he doesn't, he's a liar.
Nothing is believed today that wasn't
first rejected. They didn't believe
Noah until the food came; Lot wasn't
believed until too late; Jesus was
ridiculed; Luther and John Huss stood
alone In their doctrines Of justification
by faith.
In the New Testament have the
words OF Jesus, Of Paul, John. Peter
and Jude that there is hell. / am
more certain that there is hell than
that the sun will rise tomorrow. It
always has, and suppose 1t will, but
nave no authority for saying it will
But do have authority for saying
that there is hell The only things
we have that say there is no hell are
the dreams of poetssand novel writer's
On one hand we have the word Of God;
on the other, the dreams and specula-
lions of man. The next time you hear
a lecture or a sermon or read in a
book that there is no hell, you call the
author liar to his teeth. will. The
authority for saying that there is a
hell Is the irrevocable, Interchangeable
word Of the eternal God.
you say the language is purely fig
urative. Oh, is that SO? Well Gods
figures never overstate a fact. Can't
God use figures to describe facts? You
40 every day; you say a man is as slip
rery as an eel, but you don't mean
that. All you mean is that he Is a
smooth guy. Jesus said he was the
door and a shepherd. Those are fig-
Lres.
Suppose the fire Of hell isn't literal
what of it? What If the streets Of
heaven are not paved with gold. There
may be other punishments just as
terrible as fire, and there may be
other things just as able to make
heaven beautiful as gold. II you go to
hell. your soul will occupy a body and
it will taste punishment with you. II
you go to heaven, the body will be re-
quired with the soul. You won't be a
disembodied spirit when you die. The
rich man Of the scripture lesson was
in torment. Oh, how he suffered!
Your memory will be with you in hell.
too. The rich man remembered, SO
will you.
you will find another thing. There
will be no qualification of pleasures
there. Did you ever know great
thirst? Well. you will have that
throughout eternity in hell You will
wanyt to sleep, but you cannot. There
will be no food to satisfy your gnaw-
Ing and craving. Go ahead. You'll
carry along desires. but there will be
NO qualification. Your desires will
reach their highest potency in hell.
viii be Great People in Hell.
Because great people don't believe
in hell is no proof that there isn't
any hell. There will be lots Of great
people In hell. Jezebel will be there,
Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terri
bic, Louis XIV. Louis XIV. Louis XVI.
Huxley, Darwin Spencer and Bob III
gersoll has been there for Ave years
His one doctrine was I don't know,
UuI no KNOWN now lot ne 3 Deen
there for five years. God don't bow
to greatness, there's no emancipation
because of that.
'sThe Bible says everlasting punish
ment' and everlasting life Some OF
these people say that in the case of
everlasting punishment the word
everlasting means something else.
Say, If God lied about one part of
that, he did about all. If he He'd about
hell, he did about heaven"
Tonight Mr.. Sundays subject will
be Excuses" Il won't attempt to
answer all of them" he said, "for the
Lord himself couldn't do that"
The subject to his farewell sermon
to men Sunday afternoon will be-
Booze"