The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-08

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rot satisfy his hunger. Between
fartarus and earth there vas a vide
stretch Of the most impenctrable
d-TEaess
have gwen you the four original
words. which are translated into our
English word hell. This interpre-
iation Is in perfect accord with the
ripest and richest Greek, Latin and
Hebrew scholarships OF the axe.
Now what IS the inevitable eonclu-
sion2 What does Jesus mean by
using these Words Can il be pos
siele that lie would have used such
ianguage 20 express only state Of
isolation from God. OF that hell in
which many sentimental people be-
lieve2 can il be poahible that Christ
would have employed such express
sions to signify only a mental state
Does il look reasonable that our LORD
would have designed TO brighten US
poor creature. with the vain shadow
OF things that have no real exist
ence? Oh, let not any man impute
such folly 10 the Most High God
Our Savior certainly meant that
however mistaken the people OF His
tine were in their conceptions OF
God, truth and righteousness, they
they were right in their views as To
the horrors of hell Indeed the uni
yersal conscience of mankind is on
this side of the question. There IS
nto and there never has ben a people
who did not believe in future punish
ment. Their notions may have been
crude. their symbols exaggerated and
their standards of morality low. but
as to the fact, that the righteous
shall be rewarded and the wicked
punished. there never has ben any
difference of opinion. This con-
seriousness of future punishment in a
specific place called hell is as uni
yersal as the consciousness of i'm
mortality and when the Scriptures
used these words TO signify hell, they
simply confirm the truthfulness of
the universal consciousness of man.
kind
Punishment of He'll.
But it may be that some of you
are anxiously waiting to ask a ques-
ton as TO the punishment OF hell.
You would like TO know whether
there is actual fire and birthstone
there. Without giving you my opin-
ion l ask you simply to listen to the
reading of the word. Our parable in
speaking of the rich man says: "In
hell he lifted up his eyes being in
torments." Then in Matt. 1850, we
read, And He shall cast them into
the furnace of fire" Rev. 1910,
"He shall be tormented with fire
and brim-stone.' Rev. 1920,
These were cast alive into lake OF
fire burning with birthstone. lisa.
l64:24, Neither shall their fire be
Quenched. Matt. 15:41, Depart
from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire" Rev. 21:S, "All liars shall
have their part in the lake that bum
eth with fire and birthstone" Mark
9:45, Better than have two feet,
| to be cast into hell, into the fire that
shall never be quenched."
"Ah," but you say. "are not those
references symbolical? Is not that
| figurative language?" Then | say.
If you symbolic this language with
reference to hell consistency de-
nands you symbolic the language
with reference to Heaven and who
believes in a symbolic Heaven? If
the language which attributes spe-
cific joys in Heaven is also figura-
tive; and if you take away the tan
gible and specific joys of Heaven
then it is NOT place worthy OF that
bloody atonement on Calvary. II
If you viii only take the time and
trouble to carry your denial of future
and everlasting punishment TO its
last analysis. you will readily see
how utterly falacious your POSITION
| is. | like best TO put II like this.
II hell is not place of literal fire
and birthstone then it is place Just
as bad as fire and birthstone; and
If it is a place just as bad as IRE
and birthstone then 1t had just as
we'll be fire and birthstone. But
such a material conception OF hell is
by no means necessary 10 prove that
IL is place of terrible and endless
torment No one can observe the
enormity of sins retribuuon in this
life without trembling at the thought
of future punishment. Talk about
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