Mr E. H. Tatiob's lecture on "Future. Punishment" at the Oddfellows' Hall on Snnday night was well attended.. After tha meeting | I had been opened in the usual way, the lee turer took for his text the 16th. verse of Obadiah—• And they shall be as chough they had not been." The commonly taught doctrine of eternal tprmen't for all those who did not believe in Chrirt, was;, so repulsive that it; caused them to ask if it were true, and to search tbe scriptures to find what was the doom of the ungodly. The doctrine of eternal torment was in opposition to the teachings of Scripture, a contradiction of nature, and destroyed the redemption of Christ. Nature and the Bible .taughfc thafc Q-pd was love, but orthodoxy said that He was unjust,' and capable of cruelties worse than any inflicted by barbarians. In defence of this allegation some said the hell. for the wicked would consist of their being shut out,; from G-od's presence, but that could not' bp, for He is omnipresent. Again, statistics ( showed according to general • belief, thafc nineteen but of every twenty persona who had ever lived wore now in hell's torment. Could God then permit the lives of the tortured; to be greater than the songs of the saved? If eternal torment be true, then Christ did not pay the penalty for sinners/ for He did not> suffer eternal torture. He died that they might live. Where was fchs need of a judgment day if the ungodly were seno to h'e!l as: soon as they died. The last chaper in the Old "Testament said the wicked should be. ashes under the feet of believers, and, he would ask, where must the righteous be when that took place if orthodox teaching was true. The usual Bible Class will be held on Thursday night. Next time you shiver at having a tooth pulled, think of Joseph Brooks, of Colorado. He lay still and let a bear chew his arm ofi", and thereby saved the rest of his body. Come to read the items over again, it was a wooden arm, but Joseph wasn't to blame for that. - A public lecturer, in speaking of tlie " modern physical degeneracy of women," exclaimed : " We must take good care of our grandmothers, for we shall never get any more."
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4268, 5 September 1882, Page 2
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