Show arrived at the church just i i Per WaS eternity m a fi on voice- After aDd sadly wailing the the preacher offered up a to a merciless and eternal 1 He read as a 1 lesson about tho rich I L in his groat torment in called to Lazarus for a few i of water to quench his 5 burning Then he turned It U to the Old and i that the moon was turned to and all the proud and II kicked would burn as After the singing of another unearthly song in slow 1 the preacher took the foiling will it profit a man if he gain the whole and lose his own I 2 tall never forget that sermon or k he man who preached He pictured hell to be an actual dead- He said that if he k stick his hand into the red hi stove him and hold I it there till it was burned ft the pain would be nothing as com- 1 pared to the fires' of where whole body was for a the fires kindled by God were a si times hotter than those iii by In those God- i jade fires the sinner was roasted i forever and both night and Er fey without recess or i through all and eternity was so long that if a bird S from another world should come to this earth once in a thousand ears and carry away a grain of I when it had this earth all ji eternity would have just 4 He quoted line after line the Westminster catechism and it pothers that they must bring j babies and little ones to the seat to save and j the man who was moral t thoughtful of others would be out along with the thieves if he did not come that the devil was like f that thc rain i ana the northern lights were t of My mother and and most of the audience many were 9 t 2 foid to the anxious and imploring to be Others fell prostrate on the floor and to an angry God for What an awful My sister and I were almost frightened to My father was and told us to get ready to go home while he went after the team and What a cowardly change that one hour had brought into my young and happy life When 1 got into thc sleigh and saw the northern I knew they were a reflection from the lake of lire arid and I imagined L could hear thc pitiful cry of children and the hoarse groans of older people who were being tortured I thought I could ee drops of blood on the and that old steady was an evil watching The shadows the horses cast on the snow were roaring trying to jump into the sleigh to devour I imagined that the dear old maple of flames illuminating tree was a mass a world of When Beauty Flees From is the dungeon of the superstition is a dagger with hypocrisy assassinates the my sister and I went to bed that we did not go to the window and bid old steady or look at beautiful flag in the but we asked moth-r to pull down the window curtain so that not one ray of ugly light could the After that awful night we thought that the owl and were birds of evil and that their cry was a sign of approaching we saw the we would run into the dark closet and hide for fear it would set Hip world on Our lives were filled with dread and and our childish happiness was blotted Thc world is getting There is only one church that still hangs to that frightful dogma founded by the Westminster The preacher who takes eternal woe into his pulpit today is a and does not know any The the the the Christian Scientists and a few other religious sects were never guilty of terrorizing young and many of the orthodox J churches are utterly ashamed of 1 the frightful work they did in early The coming church is the one that teaches its children I a love that out fear and i that stands on a platform of in reason and I V. S. |