Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05

teach it, or because it's not in the
New Testament, or because it's not
in the Greek. They did it for specu-
latfve principles, to be sentimental,
to be popular with clique and a
crowd that doesn't want Gods Truth,
that's all. No man on Gods earth
can go to the Bible to find out what
the Bible teaches about Eternal
damnation and not stand UP and
preach that man will be eternally
sins. The man doesn't live that can
go to the Bible to find out what 1t
teaches in order that he may teach
what it teaches, and then not stand
up and tell the people there is an
eternal He'll to the people that won't
repent.
And supposing they have given up
their belief in the doctrine OF Eternal
He'll? That wouldn't prove anything.
Anybody familiar with the church
knows that there is not an invention,
a discovery Of a doctrine that is
known and accepted ard believed to-
day, which, when 1t was first pro-
pagated, wasn't ridiculed. Calico
said: "The earth moves" and on his
knees he was compelled to retract
and as he arose he said: at moves
Who was right. Calico or the people
that sneered at him? say there
isn't a discovery or an invention, or
a doctrine that wasn't disbelieved
but that disbelief didn't prove that
Calico was wrong.
There was Newton, who discover
ed the law of gravity For thirty
years they repudiated his doctrine
and theories and he was ostracised
Who was right, Newton or they?
You don't know their names today
but you know all about Newton.
Columbus said the world was
round They cursed him, blasphem
ed him. drove him from pillar tc
post and considered him insane. Who
was right. Columbus or they? We
know the world is round, and because
they said it wasn't that didn't dis
! prove anything.
! Look at Jerusalem. Jesus said tc
the Jews: "Not one stone shall be left
on top Of another They laughed
at him. Forty years after he ut
tered those words, the Roman army
under Titus stepped into the city OF
Jerusalem and RACED it.
There is He'll whether you be
lieve it or not. So if every preache,
in the land should give up his belief
in Hell. that wouldn't prove thai
there is no Hell, not particle.
We have the words OF Jesus. Lis
ten to what He says:
Matt. 25:41. Then shall he sa,
also unto them on the left hand
Depart from me, We cursed, inte
everlasting fire, prepared for Tho
! devil and his angels
| have the words OF Paul. II Thess
rs "And to you who are troubled
rest with us, when the Lord Jesu:
shall be revealed from heaven will
his mighty angels. In flaming fir.
taking Vengeance on them that know
not God and that obey not the gospe
of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall
be punished with everlasting destruc
ton from the presence of the Lore
and from the glory of His power
God spared not the iniquitou!
world. He preserved Noah and sever
!. others and brought a food upon TIL,
ungodly world and turned the elite!
of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashe:
and made them an example for al
that would live ungodly. God says
Il put those cities into ashes as al
example for you, to show the pun
ishment that will come on you if 70,
don't obey my law
We are certain there is hell, be
cause Christ says so. the Apostles
say so, God says So We are NOR,
positive there is hell than we ar
that the sun will rise tomorrow.
haven't one word of authority to tel
you that the sun will rise in the morn
ing. I suppose it will hope it will
should be disappointed if it woul
not, but I haven't one word of author
ity to tell you that it will But hav
authority to tell you that there Is
hell, and that is the Word of God.
have no authority to tell you that yo1
will live until tomorrow morning.
expect you will I hope you may.
would be disappointed If you didn',
but haven't one word of authority Z
tell you that you will But have at
thority in the Word Of God to tell yo
there is a hell There is a hell be
cause God says there is, and the onl
thing against it that have ever foun
; is simply the speculations Of a lot q
theologians and the dream Of lot Q
poets and old novel writer's and OIL
backsliders in the church That's al
I've ever found against It.
Everybody knows that where Their
is sin there is suffering. You have t
suffer in your own body. Sin wi
breed moral ulcer The Judgment q
sin doesn't always Instantly assert i
self. You can sin and that sin ma
not show itself, but let 1t go on, an
by and by the blossoming of the a
. mond tree will be turned into snoy
drifts OF despair, and it will tell o
5 your cheeks, and in your eyes. an
: your heart; and your mind, whic
should be peopled with pure and nobl
, thoughts will become the catacomb 1
/ ground moles and bats, holding pos
s mortem over your rotting manhood.
/ We all know that the longer a ma
] sins the deeper he goes into it. Whe
, man utters the first oath he shrink
!. from it. Today he can walk up an
curse his mother. When man take