The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-08
HE'LL! WHAT
IS It FOR? WHO
WILL co THERE?
The SUBJECT. OF AN INTENSELY
INTERESTING SERMON DELIV-
Erred BY THE REV. DR.. A. AR
MOLD ROSS AT FIRST UNI
VERSALIST CHURCH, ON SUM-
DAY MORNING.

jet a. tie First UniveTsalist church
Sunday morning, Hell, Where Is II?
a hat Is 1t For? Who viii Go There?
VIII II Last Forever" lie spoke in
part as follows:
My topic is not a pleasant one,
and yet l nave been constrained 10
take il for various reasons: one is
,haL the two things which those who
are ignorant Of the doctrines of Uni
yersallsm most frequently and err
rOpeOusly ascribe to Universalists as
2 portion of their belief is this: That
they do not belief in hell, and second,
that they do not believe in Christ.
and yet none more fully believe in
both than do Universalists. l have
taken for my text these words con
tanned in the first clause of verse 46.
u enty- fifth chapter of Matthew: And
these shall go away into everlasting
punishment
1t is not my purpose this morning
to ,resent to you the theological view
of bell as presented in Scriptural
coTn, but rather TO give you a practi-
cal view of the meaning and the in
.ent and purpose Of he'll. and have
divided my subject as follows: Hell;
here is it? What is it for? Who
will go there? VIII 1t last forever?
1T has been for a period longer
tnan history records, the almost uni
veTsal belief that the life beyond is
divided into two great kingdoms, into
one of which the soul is sent imme di
atsIy succeeding death. or II was call
ed OF the great Judgment day. These
KINGDOMS are termed the kingdom of
God. or heaven: and the kingdom of
misery, or hell. The kingdom of
beaver is that place ruled over. ac-
-
ton o. understanding, by God and Je-
Sis His son. 1t is place where JOY
dwells. where happiness abounds.
where death never comes, where sin
ard sorrow is never known where
all that is zDTight and beautiful comes
to the soul; a thing % joy and beauty
fer endless ages. Of course the view
of heaven in its material delights va
ries with the character of religion.
and in the way men have been
brought up. Whether it be ruled over
bv God and His Christ, whether ii is
called the Isles Of the Blest. or the
Happy Hunting Ground. matters very
little II is a place of material de-
light in every language. and accord
iTIs to every conception hell is
place where misery abounds. ruled
over by the devil and his angels. be-
ings of fiendis1 characteristics and
malicious motives who delight in tor
rure. FIRE and smoke. pain and suffer
ing, and horror; these are terms
y A!ch are used by men to describe
the perilS of this abode of the lost
anG Of the devil. Indeed, there is A
popular conception that God and the
devil divide up the souls of men, the
one taking those that are redeemed
70 Himself in hlessedness and glory.
and the other taking those that are
unredeem med to himself in misery and
torture. And the conception that hu-
man souls are divided up between
God and the devil may be set forth in
a story which l trust you will not
think irreverent, because 1t so rela-
tIveIv points out this universal con-
ception.
An Illustration.
The story is that there we're two
Elen-a black man and white man
who made up between them a plan
to ~ob d farmers corn crib. They Sc
lected a dark NIGHT for the purpose.
About midnight they drove their wag-
on out tc the corn crib, and loaded
il TO OVERLOOKING with corn. and then
they took their departure. They went
a short distance from the house to a
cemetery and got way behind a large
monument to divide up the spoil.
Y. hen they drove through the gate
two ears of corn fell from off the
wagon. In their haste they left them
ihele for the time being. When they
got behind the monument a quarrel
ensued as to which should have the
largest plumber of ears. The white
man thought. by reason of his color,
that ne should have more, and the
black man thought by reason Of his
hard work that he was entitled to
more. They settled that matter. and
the white man began TO count out the
rOIH. He proceeded in this fashion
TO count out the corn, saying, One for
YOU and one for me, one for you and
enc fer me, one for YOU and one Tor
me- An old darby Who had been de-
Iayed, perhaps playing game OF
craps. passed by the cemetery gate
and heard those strange monotones,
One for you and one for me, one for
-ou and one for me. one for you and
one for me- He Immediately took
his way TO the home of the farmer
which was the first house that he
came to--who had been robbed. and
ne told the farmer that 'Gawd and
de debil war down dar in de GENE
tary dividing up souls The farmer
laughed at him and told him to go
ptout his way, that he had been TAX
ing toe, much. But, boss, tell you 1t
s 50 said the darky: 1 heard 1t,
and L you doesn't believe IL, come
down dar wild me and I VIII show you
When they got down TO the gate they
heard "One for you and one for me,
one for you and one for me. one for
YOU and one for me- But just about
that time the white man got through
counting and then he stopped to look
an ar his neigh hor and said Now