The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-08
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
sHtlL SERMON SUBJECT
EVANGELIST WOULD NOT ROCK
SINFUL SOULS To SLEEP
PREACHING ONLY LOVE
Takes Lesson From Parable of Rich
Man and Lazarus and Delivers
Interesting Discourse al
Evening Service.

There was a large crowd AZ tho
Baptist revival meeting Monday night
and Evangelist Hutton preached a
most interesting remon on what
We Think of He'll"
Lesson--"Parable of the rich man
4 and Lazarus
| The nature of this parable or. Ia.
deed, IT be parable, since it NAV
have been the record OF an actual
occurrence), demands that our ex-
pressions be plain and it may be. TO
some of you, distasteful There is
so much sentiment mixed with our
religion today that we have almost
| lost sight of sense. Fact has given
way TO fancy; principle has given
way to popularity; truth is lost in
theory; and faith, that virtue SO Of
ten commended by the Bible is being
swallowed up by the perversions of
human reason. Hence any distinct
enunciation of divine utterance on
this subject must be more or less
| alarming
The temptation of the pulpit today
| is to preach only the love of God az
it. is manifested in the many bless
| irgs of life. Surely this is we'll and
necessary, but it is possible by such
preaching to rock sinful souls to
sleep in the cradle OF sympathy and
gentleness when they ought first TO
| be aroused from their iniquitous
slumber by the thunder of Sinai.
There is a kind of preaching when
| quiets the conscience without convic-
! ton, and when the minister deyotes
his time preaching on infinite love
and mercy to the exclusion of in
! finite wrath and justice, then he so
| far falls short of declaring the whole
counsel of God.
| 1t is our purpose without further
| preliminary, to make close, and
trust, no less critical, study of this
!, subject as set forth in the parable
of the rich man and Lazarus.
Reality of He'll.
First, let us ask the questions
there a hell? TIE parable unques
tionably teaches there is. There are
In ba al
manuscripts of the Bible which are
translated into our Engssn word
hell. In the Old Testament we
find the Hebrew word "Sneol,
meaning the grave In the New Tes-
lament we find the word "Hades."
1t is q Greek word and means the
unseen world. This is the word than
is used in the parable of the rich
man and Lazarus. in HadeS there
are two separate places, one for the
good, where we find Lazarus, and
the other for the bad, where we find
the rich man, with an unfathomable
| gulf between. The next word VIC
find is Gehenna; this is also a Greek
| word and is translated hell. 1t re-
| fers to the valley of Hinom, d pace
near Jerusalem into which the offal
and refuse of the city were cast and
| burned. Human sacrifice were once
offered there; devoted mothers would
throw their clinging children into
the burning arms of Moloch. inns
place for dumping refuse, where the
fires burned day and night, the
smoke ascending toward Heaven ana
the mal-odors filling the air, is
stiking symbol of that place where
| we are told the wicked shall go. IL
was this place Gehenna, of when
Jesus spoke when He asked is II
profitable that one of thy members
should perish and not that thy whoie
body should be cast into hell! Iheh
found in III Peter "a. II is the
Latin word "Tartarus." The verse
| reads like this God spared not the
angels that sinned, but cast them
down 10 Tartarus. 1t meant 10 the
Greek mind a place as far below tue
earth as Heaven is above IT, In their
mythology Tartarus. Ixion was on his
ever-revolving wheel Sisyphus ron
ed the huge stone 10 the top or the
hill which rolled back again ana ne
must forever toll at his frujtless task
In Tartarus. Tantalus stood In the