The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-06-10

the hell Of the
'5s Bible totally diff
ferent one from
M the hell of the
ilkASl2k kQ2SklllI Dark Ages. This
error, he said. still
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
[hell], will be thy destruction" QHo-
sea 1919; 20 Hades HE'LL, where Is
thy victory ?"-1 Corinthians 1885.
My text, said the Pastor, teaches
that Jesus will destroy the hell of the
Bible, the tomb-the state Of death.
He will do 1t 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
wait for the appointed time-the es-
adjustment of the Messianic Kingdom.
Meantime, 1t 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 hoodwtnk the people, and keep them
in darkness on a subject Of the most
vital 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
hell Of torture-that the words Sheol,
Hades, Gehenna and Tartarus do not
signify a place Of torture-where all
except the sanity will everlastingly
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
it is evident, said the Pastor, that rev.
erence for God and faith in the Bible
can never be restored until this great
Moloch 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 negatived and
made of none effect by this colossal er-
ror Of the past, whenever it is recog-
nized, conceded
The Pastor did not on this occasion
attempt explanations of some of the
three or four parallels, which by mis-
TRANSACTIONS, misunderstanding and
interpretations have been made to sup
port the God-dishonoring doctrine that
everlasting torture is the wages of sin,
in contradiction of the Bible statement,
"The wages Of sin is death" He con-
tented himself with reminding his
hearers that he had already preached
on the parable of the Erich Man and
Lazarus" the parable of the "Sheep
and the Coats" and the Lords state
ment, where their worm dieth not and
their fire is not quenched"; and again
in Revelation, about the Devil being
cast with the beast and false prophet
into torment.
These four figurative statements, the
Pastor declared, are the whole basis.
so far 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 appli-
cation.
The God of All Grace.
The God of the Bible, said the Pas
tor, is such an one as every human
heart needs and Graves. He is a God
of sympathy and love, respecting
whom 1t is declared psalm 1O2:19, 20),
that He looked down from His Holy
Habitation and beheld, and He heard
the groaning Of the prisoners. Then
His own Arm brought salvation"
Qsaiah $3.50 The groaning of the
prisoners was not In some far-away
fiery furnace, but right here on earth
In every home. st. Paul declares, 1.-THE
whole creation groaneth and travaileth
in pain together" He is quite right
Our race groans because we are slaves
OF Sin, and Sin Is paying US the pre-
ecrtbed penalty, namely, DEATH
We are dying race, mentally, NOR
ally and physically. We are more and
more disappointing to ourselves and to
others, and we hasten toward the
tomb, slaves and prisoners = going
down into the great prison-house of
Death. That prison-house of Death
the tomb. is the Bible hell All the
aches and pains which come to us as
we approach and enter the prison are
incidental parts of the penalty. But
There's Wilderness in Gods Mercy,
Like the Wilderness of the sea-"
He has purposed a blessing upon ev-
cry member of the race, all of whom
have suffered the loss Of Eden hap
piness and of life itself through the
disobedience of the first man, Father
Adam. The Second Adam is to COM
pletely undo the work of the first and
is to give to every member of the race
fullest opportunity for reconciliation
and return to the Fathers House.
The work of Jesus at the First Ad-
vent was only preparatory one His
death was necessary as the correspond
ing price for the sin Of the First Adam.
Only by paying that penalty could He
ever have the right to destroy the great
prison house-the tomb, Hades-and to
deliver the prisoners by resurrection
from the dead. His work was salts
factory He has been received up into
glory where He was before" only
with added dignity at the Fathers
right hand There He waits. the
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