Show I < tl ii f Merle sn0 hell Hell and heaven belief had their tint Irln about the y eat to D C and rote that lime there hue ben Ihound tol tempti to locate theie place the one 01 future punishment and the other of verlaitlnv happlnett The old mediae cot > l Idea ol hell U I the one which gives u ttoundertttnd that the devil and hit imp have their lurnace and their caldrons cal-drons and other articles ol I Internal utility constantly working somewhere within the bowels ol the earth One liter believes that heaven will be on a planet which will be prepared lor Ihe Inlln Ihe Last Day and another be U evet that thl earth burned over and lurlned by fire will be the final retting place ol thotc who escape the horrors ol perpetual punishment In the hell that has been prepared lor those who love In Or hIlon the frIend 01 Sir Isaac Newton and the firtt of the great race uf I speculative aitonomeri believe that hell is I located on t comet Hut the mo > curious theory we have ever investigated was that auvanced by Dt lortlmer author ol The Spirit ol God a t Fire One of the teveral tubitlilet of this remarkable book was one which gar the reader to underhand that Ihe author believed that heaven It I located on the Inner globe ol the tun This ubttltle wai The Globe Within the Sun Our Heaven According to Mot mert theory our tun It I surrounded by a i envelope of phoiphere of flame too ones mllet Itself Taken all tocether this Idea ol the phoiphere It a vast non luminous void Further on It I the great lobe ol the sun lutll Taken all together to-gether this Ideaol the sun may be aptly compared to a peach or a plum The envelope ol flame occupies Ihe I place of the kin the rest nonlumln ut void the place ol the meat ol the fruit and the central globe true sun the place ol I the teed On this sun globe inside the great fiery envelope Dr Mor tImer believed heaven to be situated Th photosphere or enveloped fire he took 10 Ir hell or the place ol future punishment for the wicked The non luminous void according to Mortimer Is I the great gull between which Ie I mentioned quite frequently In the Scrip lure |