Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-07

casts gloom over the masses and him
ders a proper appreciation Of the Di-
vine character re Love and Justice.
He took a combination text: 20 Sheol
HE'LL. will be thy destruction" (Ho-
sea 1910; 20 Hades HE'LL. where Ia
thy victoryT'-1 Corinthians 1855
My text, said the Pastor, teaches
that Jesus will destroy the hell Of the
Bible, the tomb-the state Of death.
He will do It by delivering all man.
kind from death by the resurrection.
Thus He will ultimately gain His great
victory over sin and death, and deliver
humanity from their power No one
but Jesus can do this, Hence we must
walt for the appointed time-the es-
tablishment Of the Messianlc Kingdom.
Meantime, II Is ours to batter down
the hell Of torment which for centuries
has troubled Gods saints. and turned
the hearts Of the masses from their
Creator.
The Pastor dealt some vigorous
blows at the doctrine he condemned.
They were not blows Of anger nor Of
sentiment, but blows Of logic and Of
Scripture. He urged his hearers not to
think that the cultured and intelligent
ministers oppose him His opponents
are comparatively few. he said, and
they are Of two classes. Some good,
and honest, but ignorant; others thor.
Oughly informed who no more believe
in hell Of torture than does the Pas
tor dodge the question and give the
impression that they believe It, so as
to hoodwink the people, and keep them
In darkness on a subject Of the most
,svltal Importance TO human happiness,
now and throughout eternity
The masses OF Christian ministers are
educated, Preachers in general know
well that the Bible does not teach
he'll of torture-that the words Sheol
Hndcs. Gehenna and Tartarus do not
signify place Of torture-where all
except the sanity will everlastlngly
suffer, These ministers do not come
forth into the open with me to combat
the error, presumably because they do
not realize that this terrible blasphemy
against the Divine character lies at
the bottom Of nearly all the goddess
ness and the growing unbelief In the
Divine Word now prevalent To me
II Is evident, said the Pastor, that rev.
erence for God and faith in the Bible
can never be restored until this great
Mooch Of false teaching shall be de
molished This explains my zeal for
the exposing OF error Of the past, and
for the revealment Of truth on the sub
ject OF future punishment All the
precious promises Of the Bible and all
It's Just penalties are negntlved and
mnde Of none effect by this colossal er-
ror Ut the past whenever II Is recog-
nized conceded.
The Pastor did not on this occasion
attempt explanations OF some OF the
three or four parallels. which by mis-
trNnsntlons, Misunderstanding .nnd
interpretations have been made to sup
port the Goddlshonoring doctrine that
everlasting torture Ia the wages OF sin,
IN contradiction Of the Bible statement,
THE wages Of sin Is death" He con.
tented himself with reminding his
heHrers that he had already preached
on the parable OF the "Rlch Man and
Lazarus" the parable OF the "sheep
and the Gonts," and the Lords state
inent. where their worm dleth not and
their Ore Ia not quenched"; and again
IN Revelation. about the Devil being
cast with the beast and false prophet
into torment
These four Ggurative statements, the
Pastor declared, nre the whole basis.
40 fur as the Bible Is concerned, Of the
doctrine OF eternal torment He had
preached upon all OF them. Many OF
his hearers had read his sermons and
were familiar with the reasonable ex.
positions Of these Scriptures To 9th.
ers who have not heard and hare not
read. he offered to send his Views In
printed form, free upon postcard appll.
rntion
The God OF All Grace.
The God " the Bible, said the Pas.
tor. is such an one as every human
heart needs and Graves. He Is God
~ sympathy and love. respecting
whom Il Is declared psalm l02l0, 20),
that Tie looked down from His Holy
Hnhltation and beheld, and Tie heard
the groaning OF the prisoners, Then
His own Arm brought salvation"
isaiah 03.5l The groaning Of the
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