IS THERE A HELL?

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1929, Page 7

IS THERE A HELL?

ANGLICANLEADERS’ VIEWS MATTER OF SELF WILL (By Cable-Press Assn—Copyright.) LONDON, December 2. Dean. Inge and the Bishop of London, expressed their views dn Hell, during their Advent Sunday sermons. Dean Inge, at Saint Paul’s, deprecated the ghastly pictures of Hell, which filled Christian literature. He said that the Roman Catholic Church had’ attempted to solve the problem by the introduction of Purgatory, which was a plausible theory. Dean Inge declared that the Modernist Protestants really believed in Purgatory. They did not believe in Hell. He would be the last, he added to wish to revive the terrible symbolism of Hell torture, but there was a great danger to-day of entirely banishing fear. , The Bishop of London, at Westminster Abbey, said :—lt seemed certain that there were passages in St. Matthew’s Gospel that were attributed to Our Lord, but which He never said. Pictures of roasting souls made more atheists than anything else in the world. Dr. Ingram declared that when selfwill ceased, Hell ceased, because selfwill was Hell. He added that, although a death occurred in London every eight minutes, it was the hardest thing in the world for the majority to realise that their own end must also eventually come.