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gloom over the masses and binders
proper appreciation of the Divine char
acter re Love and Justice. He took
combination text: 0 Sheol HE'LL, 1
will be thy destruction!' CHosea 13:14)
20 Hades [helll, where is thy victory?"
Il Corinthians 1856.
My text said the Pastor, teaches that
Jesus will destroy the hell Of the BIZ
ble-the state of death. He will do this
by delivering all mankind from death
by the resurrection. Thus ultimately
He will gain His great victory over
sin and death, and deliver humanity
from their power No one but Jesus
can do this Hence we must wait for
the appointed tme-the establishment
Of the Messianic Kingdom. Meantime,
it is ours to batter down the hell OF
torment which for centuries has trou-9
bled Gods saints, and turned the
hearts Of many from their Creator.
The Pastor dealt some vigorous blows
at the doctrine he condemned. They
were not blows Of anger nor Of senti--
ment, but of logic and Of Scripture.
His opponents are comparatively few,
he said, and of two classes: Some are
good and honest, but ignorant Others,
thoroughly Informed, no more believe
in hell Of torture than does the Pas
tor, but dodge the question and give
the impression that they believe it, so
as to hoodwink the people, and keep
them in darkness on subject Of most
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now and throughout eternity.
The masses of Christian ministers are
educated. Preachers in general know
well that the Bible does not teach q,
hell of torture that the words Sheol,
Hades, Gehenna and Tartarus do not,
signify a place Of torture, where
except the sanity will eternally suffe
These ministers do not come forth In
the open with me to battle the error
presumably because they do not real
ize, with us, that this terrible blast
phemy against the Divine character
lies at the bottom Of nearly all the god
lessness and the growing unbelief in.
the Divine Word now prevalent. To
me it is evident, said the Pastor, that.
reverence toward God and faith in the
Bible cannot be restored until this
great Moioch of false teaching be de-,
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exposing the errors Of the past, and
for the revealment of the truth on the:
subject of future punishment.
The Pastor did not en- this occasion
attempt explanations of the three or:
four parallels, which, by mistransla-
| tons, misunderstanding and interpola-.
tons, have been made to support the
God-dishonoring doctrine that eternal
torture Is the wages of sin, in contra
diction of the Bible statement, 'The
| wages Of sin is DEATH" He contented
himself with reminding his hearers
that he had already preached on the
parable Of 1.-THE Rich Man and Laza-
rus" of 1.-THE Sheep and the Goats" "
and the Lords statement, where their
worm dieth not and their fire is not
quenched;" and from the Revelation,
| about the devil. the beast and the false
| prophet being cast into torment. To
those who have neither heard nor read
his sermons on these subjects, he offer
ed to send his views in printed form,
free upon postcard application.
The God of All Grace.
The God of the Bible. said the Pas
heart needs and Graves. He is God
of sympathy and love. respecting
whom it is declared that He looked
down from His holy habltation and be-
held, and heard the grooming of the
prisoners. psalm 102:19, 2O) Then
His own Arm brought salvation" lisa
iah 63:5J The grooming of the pris-
oners was not in some far-away fur
mace, but here on earth-in every
home. Our race groans because we
are slaves Of sin, and sin is paying US
the prescribed penalty-death.
Jesus work at the First Advent was
only preparatory. His death was nee
essary as the corresponding price for
the sin of Adam. Only by paying that
penalty could He obtain the right to
destroy the prison-house of death and
deliver the prisoners by a resurrection
from the dead. His work was salts
factory. He assembled to the right
hand of God. where He awaits the
hour when He shall take His great
| power and reign.
Then the light of the knowledge of
God shall fill the earth. All will have
fullest opportunity for return to God.
and only the willingly disobedient will
die the Second Death.