The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-04-25
HE'LL

The average man believes in hell,
but thinks few people go there and that
nobody knows much about it. The
Bible is the only authority on the sub
ject, and no one can know anything
about l., aside from the Bible. When
we consider Christ's statement that
unless a man loves Him more than
'father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and bretheren, and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he cannot
be my disciple" luke 1926, and re-
fleet that probably not one professed
Christian in a hundred has reached
either this standard of the other one
which He set in the same chapter, that
"Whosoever he be of you that for3ak-
eth not all that he hath, he cannot be
my disciple" luke 1889, it should
make us willing to consider carefully
what is to become of the 1899 out of
every 10000 of earth's population that
do not meet these conditions.
We all know that "The wicked shall
be turned into hell, and all the ma
ton that forgot God" (Psa. 9:1O;
but how many of US know that they
will be returned there; that the pas
sage, correctly translated, reads,
"The wicked shall be returned into
hell all the nations that forgot God"
showing that there are nations that
go into hell once, come out of hell,
learn of God, forget him and are re-
turned there? We all know dude
~ that Koran, or Core, went to hell;
but how many of US know that he was
accompanied to this place by his house,
with all his household goods, and two
other establishments similarly equip
ped? Mum. 16:32,33) We all know
that the Sodomites went into hell
(Gen. 19), but how many know that
they were accompanied by the city
in which they lived and that there
are other cities there? Matt 1929
We may suppose that many heather
warriors Of long ago went to hell but
how many of US know that they took
with them their weapons of war, and
that their swords are there now, I'M
der their heads, with what is left of
their bones? (Ezek 32:27) We may
understand that the wealthy go to
hell, but how many know that in the
place are sheep, gray hairs, worms,
dust, trees, and water Psa. 49:l4,
Gen. 44:31, Job 1916; Eek. 31:16.)
We may all know that bad men go
to hell, but how many of US know that
the Ancient Worthless, Jacob and He
zekiah, fully expected to go there,
and that faithful Job prayed to go
there? Gen. 37:35; Job 14:13) We
may all wish to keep out of hell, but
how many of us know that David said
there is not a man that liveth shall
deliver his soul from its power, and
that Solomon says, thou goest there,
whosoever thou art? (Psa. 89:4S; Eccl.
.910) We may think that those who
go to hell go there to stay forever, but
how many of US know that Samuel said
"The Lord killeth and maketh alive;
He brngcth down to hell and bring
eth up" out of hell, and that David
said, God has the same power to aid
those in hell that he has to bless those
in heaven? Il Sam. 2:6; Psa. 1899
We may think that those who go to
hell never come out, and that there
is no record that any have come out
yet there are at least two persons in
history who have been in hell and come
out of hell. One is Jonah who pray
ed in hell and was delivered from hell
Jonah 2:2), and the other is Christ,
whose soul went to hell, but "His soul
was not left in hell" for God raised
him up out of it. (Act. 2:31 And when
Christ came out of hell he brought
with him 1.-THE keys of hell" and now
has the power and right to set all the
captives free. (Rev. 1879. We may
suppose that hell is to last forever, but
the Prophet speaks of its coming de-
struction, and John the Revealor says
that it is to be made to "deliver up the
dead' which are in it, and it, itself,
is to be destroyed. Hosea 1914; Rev
20:13) The last passage cited affords
the explanation of the whole subject
for in the margin opposite Rev. 20:13
the translators have explained that the
word "hell" means grave. Revers-
ely, in the margin opposite Cor. IT,
55, the translators have explained that
grave" means "hell". The terms are
interchangeable and the meaning is
the same. In every place foregoing
in which the citations appear in italic
type the translators have rendered
Sheol or Hades by "grave" or "pit" in
stead of "hell".