The Prescott daily news., 1909-07-15
MISS BURTER BRITT
 CORRECTS REPORTS
Regarding Certain Religious Arguments Growing Out of Recent Sermon
 byRev. Bryan.

untrue have gone out about my conversation with Mr. Bryan, the Baptist minister who is conduct ing a meeting here at present. 1 have decided to present the facts to the people Of Prescott. l do not care what is said about what 1 say, and do, so long as the truth is told, but 1 do not care to be misrepreSented about any thing.
 l shall tel you why I talked with MT. Bryan and give you the entire conversat tion as fully as possible. Then l shall be perfect ly satisfied when the truth is in your hands,
 On Thursday night July s, MT. Bryan delivered a discourse on hell. Knowing that l do not be- lieve in eternal torment Mrs. E. r.. Blakely urged me to go with her to hear him, and 1 went He read Luke 16 19-31; Matt 13 361 43; Mark 3 43-44 Isa. 66 24 :; Rev. 20 10; 21 8; In the course of his remarks Mir. Bryan said that at death the souls of Christi ians went to heaven and the souls of sinners went to hell, but in speaking of Dives he said he had a body while in hell, because he could talk, hear, taste and see
 When the meeting had closed and we were returning home Mrs. Blakely asked what l thought a. bout the sermon. 1 quoted several passages of Scripture such as Psa 37 10; Heb, 12 20; 2 Peter ? 12 ; Psa, 37 1, ?, that could not be made ito harmOnize with what the speaker had said, and l also ated that 1 was greatly sur prised when Mir. Bryan said that Dives existed in a bodily form She frankly confessed that she did not understand the teachings of the Bible about hell, and ask ed why l did not speak to Mir Bryan on the subject 1 told her had had some experience along that line and had not yet found a Baptist minister who cared to answer such questions. She then said she wanted to hear the ques- tions answered and asked me if would present them to MT. Bryan provided he d.d not objecu and 1 assured her 1 would be glad to do so
 The next morning Mrs. Blakely sent Bernard to tell me that Mir Bryan had said he would dad v answer any questions that l cared to ask him about the sub ject he had discussed the night before if she and 1 would drive around tC Mir. w. R Steed's rPs-' idence about nine o'clock 1 told Bernard to tell him 1 would be there
 At the appointed time, Mrs Blakely, my sister, Pearl, and l met MT. Bryan at Mr. Steedgs home where the above mentionCG conversation took place in the presence of those just named and Mrs. Steed,
 By way of introduction Mr, Bryan mentioned the subject he had discussed the night before. Where upon l took from the Bible short list of questions l had prepared and told him l would like for him to tell us whether he thought Dives was in hell before or after the re-. surrection and asked him to give us a definition of death from the Bible, He turned to me and said: T did not say anything a. bout those things last night did IT l replied that he did not Then to my astonishment he said, 'l did not say whether Dives was in hell before or after the resurrec- tion and furthermore I shall not and if you want a Scriptural def milton of death you may give it yourself for 1 shall not do itr l told him l had surely not un- derstood what he said but he as- sured meu had heard alright, and asked me if 1 was satisfied with V hat believed Having been as- sured thatW was perfectly satis fled, Mir. Bryan said he was and that he did not care to discuss anything with me. That 1 was an infidel and he would not an- swer any question 1 asked. That 1 had gotten up catch questions and, as they would trap him if he answered them, he emphatical- ly declined to do so. That he