Show II SEXTON DISCUSSES HELL HELLIN HEllIN IN lECTURE AT THEATRE Declares Death and Not T Torment Torment Tor Tor- or- or ment Is Lot of f Those I Who Sin I Where Are the Dead Dea Dead 1 was as the thc topic of a sermon delivered ellered at tho Salt Lake theatre yc yesterday by E. E B D. D Sexton of or Los Angeles ng under tho auspices of or tho the International Bible Dible Students association tion The theatre was well filled Mr oIl Sexton Is to dell deliver r another address Unit hall hail Hope next Sunday Sunda at Unity on oil for tho tile I Living and the Dead In his lecture yesterday day he lIe said in iii part For FoI man to declare himself uninterested uninterested in this subject would bo be to proclaim himself l Idiotic idiotic thoughtless If the tho ordinary affairs of or this present life food oo raiment finance politics loll tics etc which concern us but for a low few I years eals arc deemed worthy of thought stu study 1 how much more moro concern should I we have 0 in respect to the tho eternal fu- fu 1 luro turo of ours ourselves lv s an and 1 neighbors ant and mankind in general I From the man many creeds formulated during the dark ages ases wo we hare havo been taught ht that d death ath is a n farce that the tho I dead aro are not dead but that the oo g-oo good 1 I aro arc already in heaven hea without waiting for the resurrection and md that all aU the thc fearful and unbelieving an and abominable I HaLle and sorcerers ond iid l Idolaters aldI and d andall andall I all liars In short all except tho tue little little lit tle the flock Clock havo ha been enjo enjoying a a. hot limo lime in eternal torment Improperly called hell heU Thinking ing Christians o of toda today howe however hower r are arc studying their Bibles BillIes more carefully and are arc coming coining to see that this terrible doctrine of or eternal torture is both and blasphemous to Gods God's character which is the emlio embodiment of oC justice and love lovo The Tue Bible gives death and not torI torture tor tor- I tur ture eternal an as the wa wages es of or sin gin In Eden it was God who declared to our first parents Yo Ye shall sUIe surely die It was waH Satan who declared Yo 10 shall not surely s die tle Notice that the tho heathen I as well veli as the tIle Christians have havo accepted ac ac- ac- ac Satans Satan's lie He and correspondingly rejected Gods God's truth Do the they not all nil claim that the tho dead aro are much all much more moro than before they died Thus This dear friends has ilas been our common common cornmon com corn mon point of mistake The Tile Old Testament refers to hell sixty six Ix times bu but t the hell which they teach us IS is ItS the tho grave gra the tomb tho the state of or death From first to last all mankind both good and bad go to hell hool tho the tomb Abraham L and Jacob Jacol antI and all tho the prophets died without giving the slightest intimation intimation tion of ot purgatorial suffering sUfferIng- for tor au any anybody anybody bOd body or a hell of or eternal torture The rue writers sHer of or the New cw Testament were also Jews and it ml might ht here hero be noted nowhere did thc they tiley describe the tho lieu hen helland and conjured conjure up during the tho dark a ages e The New Testament written written writ writ- ritt t ten 11 in iii Greek Is In full rull accord with the Ol Old Testament written In tn Hebrew w tile lh the shed of or tho the latter hatter is ts the hades of o the former Unfortunately our translators tranSlators translators trans trans- have havo In ill tho 1110 English Bible mixed things up Ull giving u us hell and pit and grave u as s synonymous Interpretation Interpretations interpretations tation of or and liades Orthodoxy Orthodoxy Ortho doxy dozy made mad hell fler fiery and thus our eyes of or understanding have been darkened dark dark- ened cued through the machinations of or our great roat adversary the prince of or dark darl ness neISs |