Show iTLM Al IT nliOMJ This week Dr Iiyman Abbott closed his series ol lectures ou The Bible as lleralure Ills last eflarl was to how thai there was no hell yet be iierled that there was no doubt of future punishment lor unrepentant Sinuses As the application of that punishment must of necessity convince con-vince the guilty suHerer that be Is something a hades like ojnJIllon here Is I 0010 much consistency between the two positions as such an mlnont scholar as Dr Abbott might be reasonably oxpectej lo exhibit Il in f chilly comfort to tell a man there li DO place of punlibmenl yet assert him them la I no doubt ot his gelling here he very nothingness of bis ties Inatlon Is appalling Dr Abbott tatej In explanation ot bis work that his otject had been to give many a better undemanding of the lilble be bad ouly tried lo open ho Hook JuJged ty the rults of his recent labor generally ho eminent divine has a rather Pit cullar Idea ot what opening meanr for the direct tendency ol the more notable part ol his efforts was lo close bo book to mauy by reson of the doubts be endeavored to throw on Its veracity as a sacred record Ills ixcerlenos In Ibo course be mape > l oul Is a very forcible Illustration ol like truth expresied by the AplI lul For what 010 knoth the thin 01 a man save the spirit DI mn Which Is I In him even so the things 01 Clod xnowetil no mo but the spirit Dr Uoi11 11 is lull eviJeat that Iter I Dr Abbott bu ndored to measure slid cmprehooJ Ibo things of Clod by the spirit 01 waD and belDg With cut the higher 10plntloD b loa 161104 |