| Some will ask: is there then no hell?—No!The mercy of God tends as
                       greatly towards the principle of GOOD as “the inhumanity of man”
                       towards cruelty, so that he would consign his brother men to flames of hell during eternity
                       for the puerile mistakes committed during a few years, or perhaps for a slight difference in
                       belief. The writer has heard of a minister who wished to impress his “flock” with the reality of an eternity of hell flames, and to
                       demonstrate the fallacy of a heretical notion entertained by some of his parishioners that
                       when sinners come to hell they burn to ashes and that is the end. He took with him an alcohol lamp and some asbestos into the
                       pulpit and told his audience that God would turn their souls into a substance resembling
                       asbestos. He showed them that though the asbestos were heated red hot it did not decompose
                       into ashes. Fortunately the day of the hell preacher has gone by, and if we believe the
                       Bible which says that “in God we live and move and have our
                       being,” we can readily understand that a lost soul would be an impossibility, for were one single
                       soul lost, then[pg 118]logically a part of God Himself would be lost. No matter what our color,
                       our race or our creed, we are all equally the children of God and in our various ways we
                       shall obtain satisfaction. Let us therefore rather look to Christ and forget Creed. |