The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-18

Won know the hue thereof: ep-bue-black-munlsnV
utter dark save for its lurid flare of flame thaV hcN Wv
structble beings of the ever-burnng damned hall n
That Colorado church congregation voted, anu ;+ l'
The vote if remember it Alright, was l9o 1of' 20 ~
and II non-commta He'll, as you see hau "n"' m
would term an overwhelming majority He'll won IN ""iN
and the noes and the novoting looked like blroeeo III
mid of six-pounder shot. - .. ,a4o,
Why that no-hel ballot reminds me of the laI' 's'
vote in 1912-the Utah-Vermont minority
But, all the same, hell didn't really WIN -
No. hell was not elected in fact for 1t was only s'i
vote. the rest of us who did not nave oppof'u
VOTE may clutch straws of comfort may go our
50 wled or so directed by reasoning faculties IN e nap
ner more beautiful more sousatisfying dNner ana more
Chrst-ke thought and conviction that hell would nav" SUI
fered defeat the vote had been general ana oilc"l
Of lust straw vote confined particular church eohges"
ton somewhere Colorado which place prooaoF la
away from libraries and the love of God and man
The fact that we have here doctor of divinity man
who breaches two every Sunday IN church op
dsavowng belief in that DID, ar-of but not forgotten hell
this gives and mine and perhaps you ana yours "
newed courage to carry against the supersous mShVe
pretaons of the teachings of Jesus OF Nazare le
Prophet Judea the chief onearth EXempIar OF all tns
lovely and Of good repute the the human family
Robert G. ngersoll also didn't believe in HELM that
kind of hell the imaginary spawned of unfath and Of fear
Robert G. Ingerso who many times have called one Of
the greatest Christian preachers of the nineteenth century,
hear! hear! the horrifc howl of 'Indel Indel! agam
lngerso almost killed hell but not quite Most OF his re-
gious teaching was directed against the infamous imaginary
hell of the fathers and most of the brethren OF his day.
years ago, reporter for the ST. Louis Post-Ds"
patch doing Sunday feature work interviewed several we'll
known preachers in ST. Louis putting the direct question to
each Do you believe the socaled orthodox idea OF he
And greatly to my surprise and still greatly to my oy
single solitary son of God whom interviewed tOd me
that he didn't so believe
Every those prominent pastors of ST. Louis churches
stated for publication though of them qualified their
remarks by averrng their belief in punishment for snwhch
by the way seemed to at the time and an
unnecessary appendage to candid davowa Of the hell"
horror
Of course there punishment sin! Many of us get it
here Possibly of may get hereafter don't know.
But almost know that of will get the hells fire
punishment tenacously deredapparently fell
lows for other fellows.
Hell-that old imaginary hell, mind you-is unjust GOdS
is Just.
He'll is unmercfu God is mercifu
He'll is ant-love. God is love.
got altogether rid of my hell (of the fathers)
many years ago. and rejoice that Jenkins pastor the
The Kansas City Post and of that Kansas City Christian Church.
got rid of his hell he had Of that brand and that he is
teaching the religion of love and the rregon of fear that
he has developed for himself religion hope and not SUPER
ston Of horror that he is privileged in the first column of
the first page wdeyccuated newspaper help in cast
ing out the devil of fear and letting the angel of faith.
During the fighting period of the present world war a
man said in my presence, "Ths is hell of worldly
NO. BROTHER said l. cts heaven of a wordw
And the poor pessimistic brother he-belever said
vas damphool to feel that way
And said unto him. "Your hel-of-aworld is inside Of
YOURSELF"
leave it to you. BERT LOVE
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