A Warm Subject.
»■ . - [Rationalist.'] We have received a long and (to us) j ■intensely interesting letter from a gentle- ' man who signs himself "John Duff, L.| -Philosopher," on the subject of hell/ •■ As far as we are concerned, we should have liked to have published Mr Duffs : letter, for hell is a place that we have always been most curious about, and naturally : Bp, ; regarding it as the locale of our future residence, and hoping 1 to meet; their all the good fellows and true men ! who have gone before. But thcusjh per < sonally the subject is pleasant; to us, j there is no disguising the. fact, ; that the topic of . eternal torment has., ceased rto ' interest the general public. No one ap- ; pears to care a brass button about the locality now, or to- have the faintest fear of it. The Freethinkers and the revisers of the Bible have between them shut'thfe Slace up, and- destroyed .poor Satan's usiness. Mr. Duff asserts,, that hell may f— faean the roof of a house. /Precisely — especially if it happens to cover a niother-in-lawv He also contends that hell may ; mean w any covered spot." 'Just so 1 . The cover ison— why take it off? >:: ''
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1644, 25 February 1886, Page 3
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203A Warm Subject. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1644, 25 February 1886, Page 3
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