HOT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1204, 7 June 1872, Page 3

HOT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

The Manchester Examiner calls attention to an interesting little book entitled " The Sight of Hell." It is by the Rev. Father Fumiss, 0.5.5. R., is printed "permism miperiorum" and is recommended to be used along with the Catechism in Sunday Schools as part of a t ct>ttn6 of religious instruction. It is one of a aeries of " Books for children and young persons." From the following ex* tracts it will be seen that the work is not of an inspiriting character. The rev. father is supposed to be taking his young charges on a little tour of inspection, daring which he acts as cicerone. , Among many things too disagreeable to mention he points out the Striking Devil i — little child, if yon go to hell there will be • devil at your side to strike you. He will go on striking you every minute for ever and 4«ver without stopping. The first stroke will make your body as bad as tbe body of Job, covered - from head to foot with sores and ulcers, The second stroke will make your body twice as bad as the body of Job. The third stroke will make your body three times as bad as the body of Job. The fourth stroke will make your body four times as bad as the body of Job. How, then, will your body be . after the devil has Been striking it every moment for a hundred millions of years without stopping ? He then shows them "A Dress of JTire' 1 — ijbb x^xviji — Are not thy garments hot I Come into this room. You see it is very small . But see in the midst of it there is a girl, perhaps about eighteen years old. What a terrible dress she has on— her dress is made of fire ) On her head she wears a bonnet of fire. It is pressed down all over her head ; it burns her head ; it burns into the skin ; it scorches the bone of the skull and makes it smoke. Tbe red-hot fiery heat goes into the brain and melts it. Ezek xxii.— l will born yon in the fire of my wrath ; yon shall be melted in the midst thereof as silver is melted in the fire. You dp nofc perhaps, l&e a headache. Think what a headache that girl must nave. But see more. She is wrapped up in flames, for her frock is on fire. If she were on earth she would be burned to a cinder in a moment. But Bhe is in hell, where fire barns everything, but burns nothing away. There she stands burning and scorched ; there she will stand for ever burning and scorched. She counts with her fingers the moments as they pass away slowly, for each, moment seems to her like a hundred years. As she counts tbe moments she remembers that she will have to count them for ever and ever. The children are favored with Bight of a boiling boy. "But listen, there ib a sound jost like that of a kettle boiling. Is it really a kettle which is boiling 1 No. Then what is it 1 Hear what it is. The blood is boiling in the scalded veins of that boy, The brain is boiling and bubbling in his head. The marrow is boiling in his bones." This child is supposed to be boiling in accordance with. Amos iv.|: "The days shall come when they shall ' lift you up on pikes, and what remains of you in boiling pots." They have also a peep at a baby in a red -hot oven \ AI Hear now it screams to come out ! See how it turns and twists itself about in the fire ! It beats its head against the roof of the oven. It stamps its little feet on the floor of the oven. You can see on the face of this little child what you see on the faces of all in hell — despair, desperate and horrible." The compassionate face of Father Furniss looking through the bars at what he calls " this pitiful sight" is the only cheerful part of the picture.