"HELL DOES EXISTS"

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1861, 22 September 1913, Page 7

"HELL DOES EXISTS"

faOW MEN PLAY WITH SHADOWS,

■ "Some who would deny in one particular the revelation of God would in their puny folly pull the Almighty from his Throne,", remarked the Rev. Father Ecoloton-in the course of a sermon at the Buokle Street. Roman Catholio Church on Sunday morning. "We are told," he added, 1 that there are men in tho world who objeot to the name of Hell." .

It may be here stated that it.was pabled from London on September 15 that Dr. Walter Walsh, of the Theistic Church (minister of the Gilfillan Memorial Church at Dundee since 1897, and tl woll-known student of municipal questions), advocates tho elimination or the word "hell" from tho Bible. American rovisers, he says, havo already expunged it from tho Old Testament, and British revisorß had explained that it did not mean a placo of torment. Of twenty-three cases in the New Testament,, ten represented mistranslation of the word "Hades." If future revisers refused to translate "Gehenna" as hell, a hideous word would bo swept out of the Bible,

"Call ii) what you like," proceeded the Rev. Father Eccleton, who, by the way, did not mention tho above cable message. "Call It what you like, you can't alter the faot. It is perfectly extraordinary how men will play with shadows, play with names, and altogether forget the reality. We were carefully told by a congress of Bible students in ■'America (the land of religious shams) that hell does not exist. Such people are in the position of convicts who would fcav that the Terrace Gaol deed not ; fexlst. , . , Hell does exist."