ANGLICAN VIEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1929, Page 1

ANGLICAN VIEWS

DEAN INGE PREFERS PURGATORY.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, Dec. 2.

Two celebrated ecclesiastics, Dean Inge and Bishop Ingram o| London, have expressed their views on Hell, doing so during their Advent Sunday sermons.

Dean Inge, at St Paul’s, depreciated the ghastly pictures of Hell, which he said, filled Christian literature. He sard that the Roman Catholic Church had attempted to solve the problem by the introduction of Pugatory, which was a plausible theory. Dean Inge declared that the Modernist Protestants really believed in Pugatory. They did not believe in Hell. He would be the last, }ie 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, Dr Ingram, at Westminster Abbey, said: —lt seemed certain that there were passages in St. Matthew that were attributed to Our Lord, but which lie never said. He said that pictures of roasting souls made more Atheists than anything else in the world. ■>

i Dr Ingram declared that .when , selfwill ceased, Hell ceased, because selfwill was Hell. He added that, although a death occurred ip London every eight minutes, it was the hardest thing in the world for the m.ajorb ity to realise that their own end must also eventually' come.