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SERMON AT UNION
————— CHURCH,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY.
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "Hongkong
Talegraph."]-
A BOXING CHALLENGE.
Sir,-Kindly allow me a little space in your valuable columns to issue the following challenge on behalf of Kid Danding, of Manila, who is now in the Colony. He challenges any Feather or Light- weight boxer in the Colony (no- one barred), Teddy Neal (Young English) preferred. Danding has a big following in Manila, having fought Big Cortaz, Jack Dalton. Young Probasco etc. Dalton is considered the best American Lightweight in the Phillippines, but Danding took his measure.
Yours etc.
"FIGHT FAN."
- Hongkong, September 3, 1919.
body." are at least as definite as. any of our Lord's about eternal fire.
Those who believe in a material Eell are apt to be censorious with those of us who do not. They make pretty free with charges that one is undermining the faith. Well I would invite them, with entire respect, to con- They shall look upon the car sider what serious disservice to cases of the men who have trans the faith they commit by insist- gressed against me, for their ing upón a form of future worm shall not die, neither shall punishment which better befits their fire be quenched." Our Mohammedanism or Bhuddism- Saviour adopted these expressions both very definite about their as He did .50 many seven and nine horrible hells- Notes of a sermon by the Rev.Jout of the Old Testament. Most than Christianity. Their intent- J. Kirk Maconachie at Union obviously He used themfigurative-ions may be ever so good but Church on Sunday evening: ly, as He did with the whole well- they may take it as certain that I am pressed by enquirers to known imagery of His time upon they are turning other people preach upon the subject of hell, the subject-Abraham's bosom.way from the truth and fostering and the fact that it is not an great gulf. "torment in this flame." the impression that the gospel of agreeable one is not sufficient Most unfortunately, the figure the grace of God is an outworn reason for refusing. The word is of unquenched fire has been taken superstition fit only to frighten one to be avoided whenever literally and the result is that the ignorant. I feel this is what possible. not from meresqueamish-Christian theology has become I am up against. People want to ness, but because it has become involved, in the popular mind, know if they are expected to be- debased into a piece of vile pro- with a hell of hopeless material lieve in a place where the souls fanity expressive. of all hatred torment. It has not been so of men are handed over, to the and ill-will instead of the reluctant understood always and universal-devil to torment for ever in a fiery but just judgment which they. Up to at least the third furnace. I feel ashamed that at reality it indicates stands for in century we find illustrious names this time of day such questions the purposes of God.
among the Fathers who taught a should have to be put. Yet I cannot Unfortunately in our English less revolting doctrine. But in deny the need, particularly in Bibles the word "bell" is used to the fifth century it was pronounc-China, where there are Mission translate quite a number of jed a heresy to hold that the fires agencies-not all of them by any different words in Hebrew and of hell meant anything else that means-which teach this kind of Greek-Sheol, Hades. Gehenna, real brimstone. To interpret it Tartarus.
as referring to the remorse of conscience or anything else upon the spiritual plane was an error to be condemned.
the
crudity to the Chinese, and fur- ther take upon them to censure or suspect those who offer a more scriptural and reasonable gospel I respectfully invite any such who may hear or read my words seriously to do two things;-
1. To conceive it possible that they may be mistaken.
This gives rise to much con- fusion of thought. It is not enough that scholars should be able to see their way among these We cannot, however, take our various terms; the ordinary orders from the fifth century, a reader who knows no "language time of great darkness, shadow- but his own ought to be able to ing the Church from the half see at 3 giance whether converted pagan world. During 2. To ponder their responsibili- word in any particular the middle ages the conception of a ty in teaching Young China, a instance means the abode of the material hell prevailed with little view of the gospel which will "lost or simply that of the depart-exception, and the genius of have to be unlearnt in part where- ed. Oftener than not it means Dante unfortunately did much ever modern education makes its the latter, but, except in the to stereotype it through his way. On the latter point I speak Revised Version, no one wouldInferno. After the Reformation, from direct experience of some- suspect it. People imagine that both Catholic and Protestant what wide range among universi-
Sheol," from the Old Testament teaching was on the same lines. ty students. and Hades," from the New Many of the sermons of those Testament are only more polite days were such as no congrega- and less forcible ways of saying tion now could endure, though the same thing which the shorter that is not to say they may not word expresses. But it is not so have been suited to their times at all. Sheol means sometimes and served them well. little more than the grave, aud
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Do I then mean to convey that there is no such thing as future in the tram I heard American chestisment and that no appeal visitors discussing Union Church. based upon the fear of it is ever: One had visited it in the evening this weather try Pinkettes, the to be made? Certainly not.
little and liked it greatly, another had dainty
gentle-as-nature entertain no doubt that if all fear been in the morning and "did not regulators, for the liver and There are discourses giver of consequences were removed care about the sermon." I should bowels. forth still on this subject which evil would go on unimpeded by like to have told that hearer that some of us would refuse to listen one of its most potent checks. he could not have “cared about " to for the honour of the gospel I grant: also it is possible that the sermon less than I who and our Lord's good name. There some of us say less than preached it, adding very reverent- are sections of the Church still we
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again the undefined abode of all departed spirits beyond the grave, oftenest conceived as a bloodless, disembodied world of shadows and dust for good and bad alike.
should as to they that it is not to be supposed dispel constipation, promote daily The same is true in general of which would doubtless refuse me deadly consequences to soul the Master Himself "enjoyed." regularity, cure biliousness, sick the Greek Hades, but gradually communion for what I have been and body of unrepented sin. as people say, the parable when headaches, torpid liver, pimples, these conceptions became more saying so far. There are well- All reactions may go too far and He thought it right to speak it. coated tongue, ill-smelling breath. definite and distinctions came to meaning people who do endless in reaction from the terrorism of Dr. L. Moody was once asked (Of chemists everywhere or 60 be developed. A sphere of pun mischief by insisting on literal the past the supposition seems to why during 2 misssion incants the vial, post free, from the ishment for the bad and one of interpretations of things in the have got about that no matter Birmingham he had not once Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 96 Paradise for the good, with some Bible which a child at school how men may live here, God is spoken about hell. Said be, "I Szechuen Road, Shanghai sort of purgatorial existence for might see should be treated too good-natured to make them have
conscious of those midway, became the more otherwise. They say the Lord feel it much hereafter. I have enough love to
my fellow- or less definite conceptions enter said fire and He must have meant little doubt that we are afflicted creatures while in Birmingham conception of a material hell it is tained throughtout the ancient fire and we have no right to make at the present time with just this to warrant me in preaching to not that I think the penalties of world amongst people of all types Him mean anything else. Very moral flabbiness. The heart of them
about hell A deep rapented wrong are lightened. of religion. These conceptions good. Let 113 talk about man is always, prone to it.
And saying that, and I commend it to Try to think them out on the are general still, indeed it is hard this for a moment or two. If the yet as life passes on it is con- those who seemto think evange-plane of mind and spirit and you to see how they can ever coase principle is to be applied in tinusily writing up in large letters lical preachers enjoy dealing will find that consuming fire is to be so if mankind is this case it is but fair to apply it one sure truth amid many uncer- out damnation to other people. not too strong a figure of speech. to have national ideas of all round. But to do that is im- tainties; "God is not mocked: It nearly breaks my heart to have I did it once in sermon form. The a future existence at all.possible. There are people who whatsoever a
was never preached. I man sows, that to appeal to the terrors of the law, sermon The latest pronouncements of the clafin, that they take the Bible shall he also reap." That this I had rather a thousand times could not preach it. I felt like the spiritualistic school are very con-literally in every jot and tittle, principle, at work in the present appeal to men's reason and con-painter who put on canvas his fident,not to say dogmatic, on the but in point of fact they do not, life, must continue in any ex- science and whatever good may imagination of Satan's wife, fled subject.
for they cannot. For instance, istence which lies beyond, we be in them. In the end, too, it is from the house, and locked the Differing considerably from the lot of the wicked is often must believe if we think ration only through that higher appeal door never again to open it. general Christian teaching in spoken of in the Bible as death. ally. Our Saviour used figurative that any soul of man can be truly Those sheets of mine were never some respects, they are at one on Take that literally and what language, but it was not meaning reconciled to God. Still many a "pened again, sheets on which certain broad lines, viz. that the becomes of everlasting torment! less, and it is as certain as any-soul has been arrested and made was imagined the lot of the soul soul does certainly survive the Again it is "outer darkness," but thing can be that He warned the to listen through a realisation of finally abandoned to itself "with- death of the body, and that its lot how can it be dark in a lake of impenitent of a destiny of loss the fact that God is angry without hope and without God." After in the beyond is bettered or wor-fire? Every day of our lives we and woe beyond the
all, that is pushing grave, the wicked and if he will not turn sened by the use made of the speak about being consumed by though His
farther than has been revealed. warnings were there lies before him a judgment opportunities of life in the body.fires of love, hote, zeal, ambition, rarely addressed to the expected which no man can escape.
In The final things and the secret "By the time of Christ, Jewish and never dream of stopping to quarters. People for the most his book "The War and After things belong unto God." Let us theology had evolved a place of explain that we are using figur-part do not like to be Sir O. Lodge speaks of the folls be content to know that the punishment for sinners, and had lative speech. We speak also of reminded of this. Much of of going to extremes in imagining Judge of all the earth will do given to it the name of Gehenua."gnawing conscience," but should the popular religion of the that sin can be overlooked because right. The name was taken, as is wall be amazed if anyone thought we day is excessively easy-going, God is good and seeks the good of known, by analogy from the alluded to an actual worm biting picking out all the hopeful and sil men.
"There is no laxness. valley on west or south-west of at an actual brain. All this may consoling elements and ignoring anywhere to be found in the uni- Jerusalem, where after its defile-sound absurd; I am aware it does, whatever makes any demand verse," he writes, "evil may he ment by Josiah on account of but I mean it seriously, for I upon us. ***--
allowed to accumulate, but sooner sacrifices having been offered to should greatly like some excellent A few months ago I had occa or later Nemesis arrives." And Moloch, fires were kept burning people to Bee where day and night for the destruction literalism will land them, if they Dives and Lazarus. I said some leniently
their sion to preach on the parable of again.Peilis not treated in this universe. of the city refuse, including dead stick to it; which they do not, thing about the war and the The punishment of sin ia animals and the bodies of whatever they may claim. For wickedness accompanying it awful I believe that. Our criminals.
one thing it will commit having vivified the belief in the Lord declared it, and tour This is alluded to in the last them to. transubstantiation, side of the gulf which is not rest reason confirms it. If I have sentence of the book of Isaiah; for 'the words, "This is my in Abraham's bosom. Next day protested against the CORTES
matters
It filled me with the fear of
bell, And thought it was the fear of
God;
I did not seek to love Him well,
I only quailed beneath His rod.
Oh blessed Christ, Oh blessed
-Gross, eve
Oh blessed Spirit that showed
to me
That terror is eternal loss, And trust is inmortality!"
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