East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-24
Many Respond TO Invitation to Con-
fess Belief at Revival Services last
Night-Evangelist Takes for Sub
ject "Hcll"-Declarcs Such a Place
Has Been Prepared for "Sinners."
(By Rev. J. NJ. Cornclison.)


Sixty-one persons. mostly of mature
years, "hit the sawdust trail' at the
union tabernacle meeting last night
at the close of a most masterful ad-
dress by DR.. Bulgin.
After giving a running exegesis of
several passages of scripture bearing
on Christs teachings and parallels Of
hell. DR. BuIgin launched into his
subject, saying: II approach this
subject with reverence and fear and
with love in my heart for all men.
just as our Father did when he wrote
the book and putting the teachings
there. / would rather preach OF
Gods love. but this is Gods letter to
us and I would be recreant in my du-
ty did I not preach to you the whole
will of God"
The evangelist took as his text Acts
1925. Judas fell and went to his own
company" The speaker did not mince
words. "If the Bible is true, then
hell is true If the eternal God is
meant when the Greek-aeonian--
used, then eternal hell is meant when
Christ uses the same term 56 times in
describing hell: If language means
anything, and Christ was always care
full to distinguish the terms" he said.
Bulgin answered some ones ques-
ton why he was a preacher and go
ing about the country.
"Men are out OF Christ and are lost
and / feel 1t more my duty to do this
than to practice law. and / had a lu-
crative practice too" he said. II
ask YOU again. If there is no hell why
the monstrous price paid to re-
deem men from it. for 1t took the
death of the sor OF God to do it. and
| If there is no hell then God is not just
| to ask such a price. He could not be
God Of love and justice and do 9th
| erwise."
The speaker declared there are two
| kinds of death. Those born only once
die twice. The psysical death when
| the soul leaves this body, the spiritual
| death when the soul is separated from
God in hell. Those born twice, the
birth into this world. and the birth
I
cept and follow Christ, die only once
when the soul leaves this body, bu
! Is never separated from God an,
more throughout eternity. because
the atoneinent of Christ is fact. no
a theory. Jesus Christ died twice. hi!
physical death and his separation from
God when he cried, My God. my God
| e.. H. tpn
he died this death for you and me w
need never be separated from God"
The rest of the speakers time wa
devoted to show that hell was express
" made for the devil and his angels
but that il was the sinners own place
like that of Judas. first by his owl
preference. second by his fitness, thir,
by his wages. fourth by birthrigh'
and fifth that he must be born agail
to stay out of hell.
Bulgin said: "Finny and Jonathan
Edwards preached hell and damnatio,
sermons and they built up the church
Few preachers mention 1t today an
the church is low because of its lack
The Universalist church is passing
|
er no-heil churches. because the dew
is on the job day and night tellin
people that there is no hell. But hel
is compatiable with Christianity an
the Bible. for If no hell. there is n
use trying to save people"
DR.. Bulgin was told by an old ma
that he must be a mossback, that tn
hell idea was long outgrown. Sal
Bulgin. "That man In Pendleto
who told me that reminds me OF
very small boy who was going to kic
the stuffing out Of Jumbo. the bi
elephant, for squirting water on hin
Think of a man telling God how t
run his own business. But tell yo
men are free moral agents and no
monkeys and must 60 to hell Of thei
own accord when they fit themselve
for It. II men by their lives here hav
neither justice. goodness. holiness o
truth they cannot and will not asso
ciate with such a God in eternity
they demand a separate place, a hell
God is not going to wet-blanket Vol
and stick you into hell. You choos
such life away from him. Nor will
he force any one to heaven. He call
you home, and you must prepare 70
It,
Man starts with innocence, faitl
ia God and a good mother. He tram
Piles these gifts. and works hard 70
the devil for wages. Sin is monste
never satisfied. Your money goes
mothers go to the grave brokenheart
ed, your diseased filled bodies tormen
YOU. Oh, the result of unclean live
in homes and wife and children! Ev
cry girl has a right to demand tina
the man she marries Is a clean man
But this monster sin still demand
your immortal soul. He'll is the sin
ner's place by birthdight, for he ha
within his soul propensities to go t
hell, and he need only to fold hi
arms and not to try the tide of wick
edness. Beyond certain point abov
Niagara one never returns yet som
deliberately 60 there.
"If eye hath not seen nor ca
heard what God has in store for thos
who love him. then the same mus
be true of those who hate him an
turn away from him ana by life an
confession must forever live apar
from him in hell that eye hath nc
seen nor ear heard"