The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-10


lev. Jesus makes it a symPOI ol men,
"vhare the worm dieth not and INC
fire is not Quenched.
Nav ought a city to have aNah'y
cr uinnom into which the refuse ShaA
na east? Or should the city leave is
roruse to decay in its streets hii'nS
tho dir with contagion and de"'1;
Tbaro are nc two opinions on ms
subject among civilized people, EVERY
garbage barrel. therefore, is al ar
oument for he'll. Those who refuse
lie in Christ become 'retuse Ill
character sooner or later, and III the
,,tnre of THINGS must be removed 10
O. place apart. r,
4 cemetery is a necessity. The
hodios Of the dead must not be le'e
in the homes of the living. every
cemetery is. therefore, an argument
for he'll. The spiritually dead soul
is like a dead body. in that 1t IS III
state Of moral putrefaction and car
rjes with it the deadly contaSloh VI
sin If il refuses 10 receive HE 1t
must Of necessity be placed apart
with its spiritually dead companions.
Last SUNDAY afternoon | visited CIil-
cap0's Gehenna, known as COOK couh-
ty iail, where men whose liberty IS
! . menace to the community are kept.
Sin Ought to Be Punished.
Even savages believe that what
they regard as sin should be punShen'
| and civilized nations have no diner
pnce of sentiment in that regard.
needs to be restated that there IS
something in God for sinners to fear
He is no moral weakling, who, prompt
ed by soft sentimentalism, permits
criminals to destroy his righteous gov
eminent. The preaching of this god
of putty has been long enough rIllng
hell, here and hereafter, with We
tins.
Sin left to itself makes hell.
"Wickedness," says Isaiah, "burneth
like a fire"
In the parable of the rich man and
Lazarus the fires Of torment nave
flames of memory, reason, magma
ton and conscience. Son, remem'
her" Memory is immortal and VIII
pass into the future freighted with its
burden of neglected duties and priv
ileges. The rich man uses the WORD
7 therefore" which shows that reason
is immortal. He requests Abraham to
) startle his five brethren by the re-
! turn of Lazarus from the dead, and
: this shows that imagination is also
: immortal to fan the flames OF memory
2 and reason. And every line Of the
parable bears witness to the fact that
conscience is immortal, with it's sting
of remOrse.
g The fires which burn the soul are
Y hotter than the fires which consume
the body. Pollock's description 9f
:, hell in his Course of Time" makes
one shudder, and yet if you will give
) his words the symbolic meaning he
" intended you are compelled to ac-
y. knowledge their truth.
t. 'orhrough all that dungeon of unfading
y fire
I saw most miserable beings walk,
) Burning continually, yet unconsumed;
8 Forever wasting yet enduring stlll;
Dying perpetualy, yet never dead
I know that such hell exists for |
=, have been there. and have seen men
~ and women on this earth burning
~ continually, yet unconsumed; forever
= wasting, yet enduring still; dying per-
~ petually, yet never dead" 1t is but
" another way of expressing what the
I. Bible means by the "b0ttomless pit
-, forever falling without striking bot
r. tom. forever sinking in the mora
- scale, forever growing worse, and vel
. not becoming so bad that you cannot
grow worse still Everlasting desen
~ GRAFTON! The soul with infinite ca
20 pacity for good or evil chooses thf
. evil and develops downward through
-, eternity. Death will not retard, ~
~. in the worse environment OF ap-Aac'
uo apart will accelerate the Gownwart
,ls course.
w. A coarse wit asked an old preache
all where he would get all the brimston'
for making an orthodox hell, and nj
wise reply was: Every man Will fui
IS nish his own birthstone"
ON Degrees of Punishment.
so This principle is admitted by ever
me court of Justice. Jesus said CT IN
me wicked: These shall go away Int
everlasting punishment and IN
same word, "everIasting" applies |
heaven. 1t does not mean equal Q
out Indefinite Everlasting punlshmef
not will certainly follow everlasting ST.
i'm ming the degree Of punishment beIH
put in proportion to the sin. 1t Is reaso'
cor able to conclude that il man vi
far. not repent in this world with an 81
wropment of good and evil, he wi
not repent in the world apart, wher
n a there is environment Of only eyii.
bic He who has accepted Jesus Chrl'
the 40 sin-bearer and Lord need nave y
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