The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-15
HE'LL IS NOT A LAKE
OF FIRE
BREEDEN breaches INTEREST
ING SERMON ON MUCH
MooTED QUESTION.

/ Before an intelligent audience that
packed the church to the doors last
| night DIR. Breeder delivered a re-
markable sermon at the Christian
church on Christian teachings con-
corning hell His first sentence was
question. Can sin exist without
misery" Can sin exist apart from
suffering? Sin spells hell. He'll is
not penalty arbitrarily inflicted by
an angry God. but the legitimate and
inevitable outcome of sin. Where is
hell? 1t is where sin is, whether in
this or another world. What is hell?
1t is the state. physical and psychical.
to which sin unrepented of brings one.
1t is the careening of the moral ship
past the center of gravity where the
power to right itself is lost. 1t Is
the capitalization Of character that
comes as the result of persistence in
sin up to and beyondsthe ponit where
repentance is possible. A man can
reach the point where he is held in
the leash of his own desires-where
he becomes a prisoner behind the
barred doors of his own being.
Forever round the mercy seat the
guiding light of love will burn,
But what Is habit-bound thy feet
shall lack the power to turn.
What if thine eyes refuse to see,
thine ears of heavens free well
come fail.
And thou n willing captive be myself
thine own dark jail?'
Such a one Is in he'll, whether he
be I'm this or another world. Two men
walk the streets together their ell
bows touching. One Is in heaven. the
other In hell. Each is in the place to
which his character assigns him.
The learned doctor took the position
that all the descriptiyes applied to
hell in the scriptures. such as fire"
and ..bottomless pit are figures OF
speech employed to suggest reality
that cannot be put into words; the
anguish born of memory and con-
science. Byron. who burned out his
better nature by indulgence of sin.
describes hell in these words:
From zone to zone still more and
more remote
still. still pursues where e'er I be
That blight of life, the demon
thought
The interest of the large audience
was attested hv the GREATNESS atten-
ton with which they hung upon
every word of the speaker.
Tonight DIR. Breeder will deliver
the companion piece to this sermon,
when he will preach on What and
Where Is Heaven"
Gradually but surely the interest In
the meetings is deepening. and there
Is every ground on which to base the
hope of great religious awakening
i'm the city. Plans are being perfected
to make the coming Lords day IAN
high day"--a dav long to be remem-
herad in Missoula. 1t Is hoped that
the Harnois theater will be packed
from floor to ceiling tn hear the great
sermon on the divinity of Christ.
Every doubter in the city Is most cor
daily invited to be present to hear
that sermon. In the meantime great
and vital messages are being delivered
nightly In the church.
DR.. Breeder has engagements Tor
more than one year ahead to deliver
the sermons he is preaching in Mis-
snula in the largest churches of the
largest cities in the. United states
Surely. Missoula ought tn appreciate
the rare opportunity that Is hers to
hear such a man. The time Is snort.
Let none of Ii be wasted.