WHERE DO BOROUGH COUNCILLORS GO?

Kumara Times, Issue 469, 28 March 1878, Page 2

WHERE DO BOROUGH COUNCILLORS GO?

The Rev. Mr Beecher's late sertnoa upon eternal punishment has aroused a great discussion in America. A reporter of the New York Herald baa interviewed the great preacher, «wid in the issue of Sunday, January 20, two columns and a half of the results are published. In a leading article on the subject, the Herald says The (jus*, tion of Eternal Damnation; Is th'eroa hell, and if so, what kind of a place is it 1 We give a large portion of our space this morning to a discussion of this: exceedingly interesting sulgect) ‘ Mr Beecher, it will be seen, breaks cleat away from the red-hot old Ga.lvini.vtic faith of bis fathers and utterly repudiates the brimstone; and the bottomless: pit, and the oceans of eternal flame. ! It has, he assures us, been a subject of anxious inquiry with him for years; and while he believes that tlierv is a spiritual hell, the old-faslioned arrangement that the ("alviuistie divines' air vividly painted some hundreds, of .years ago is all nonsense. This is pretty bold ground- for, a Congregatipnalist clergyman, but the Plymouth pastor tells the descendants of the Puritan fathers that if they, feel like making a row about it they can do so. Mr Beecher has simply plantfed.him&dfr oh the XJniversalist grouud;anddfaMehyiim * so material a point of CoUgiegaiiohil doctrine has to thateifei])/ddtiU& tJ&xgivgutipnalism. hell where in the world, do our city pollticans go after death ‘|&.. ’< & V ■