The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-07

SMSIQR Rg2SElD Dark Ages. This
error, he said, still
casts a gloom over the masses and him
ders a proper appreciation of the Di-
vine character re Love and Justice.
He took a combination text: go Sheol
[helll, / will be thy destruction (Ho-
sea 1919; 10 Hades [hell1, where is
thy victory?''~1 Corinthians 1856.
Ny 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 viii ultimately gain His great
victory owe 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-
tablishment of the Messianic Kingdom.
Meantime, lit 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 We're 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
oughiy informed, who no more believe
In a hell of torture than does the Pas
tor, dodge the question and give the
impression that they believe 1t, so as
to hoodwink 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 d
hell of torture-that the words Sheoi,
Hades, Gehenna and Tartarus do not
signify a place of ~tortnre-where all
except the sanity win everlastingly
suffer. These ministers do not come
forth into the openwith 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. 10 me
IL 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-
tnolished. 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
Its just penalties are negatiyed and
made of none effect by this colossal or.
ror OF the past, whenever iii Is recog-
nized, conceded.
The Pastor did not on this occasion
attempt explanations OF 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,
Id 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 rich 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 qnenched''; and again
In Revelation, about the Devil being
cast with the beast and false prophet
into torment.
These four ngurative 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 bis sermons and
were familiar with the reasonable ex-
positions of these Scriptures, 70 9TH
ers who hare not heard and hago NOT
reed, 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. ii suck an one as every human
heart needs and Graves. He is a God
OF sympathy and love, respecting
whom III is declared psalm l02.1a. 20l,
that He locked down from Els Holy
Habitataon and beheld, and He heard
the grooming eli the prisoners. Then
His own Arm brought salvation"
kIsafah 83:ksl The grooming OF Tho
prisoners was not la soIne farsawny
hery furnace, but right here on earth
an every home. SIT. Paul declares, .Th
whole creation groaneth and ~trayaileth
lii pain together He Isl quite right.
Cur race groans because we are slaves
OF Sin. and Sin III paying Us the pre-
scribed penalty, namely deatb.
We are II 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-hoase on
Death. THAT pr~isonshouse of Death.
tie tomb, Iii the Bible hell. An the
aches ana pains which come III. us ag