FUTURE LIFE AND DOGMA OF HELL

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2026, 16 September 1913, Page 3

FUTURE LIFE AND DOGMA OF HELL

THEORY OF A WELL KNOWN MINISTER. ANGUISH OF SOUL THE WORST HELL. London, August 6. Is it really necessary tpat we shoul'l hold any definite views about hell toe hereafter? The point las been raise' in conversation with a Daily News representative by the Rev. U Ensor Walters, heal of t* e Wesleyan East End Mission. Mr Walters said: I cannot find any dootrine of purgatory or chance of salvation after death in t.e New Testament, bet do find in the New Testament the "octrine of the love of Go . Holding that doctrine I cannot believe that loving God wiJl 10 anything unjust; t erefore, 1 am not at all coDcerne '■ personally as to t!:e future life. I am simply content in tne belief that Go is a loving Father and will do all things well. "My t eory of the future life," Mr Walters ad ed, "'is tnat as we are in this life so we shall be essentially in the world t at is to come, an that hell really means that separation fr m God whic i commences n -w.

"If a man deliberately refuses to acknowledge t;e Divine an Infinite in this world, he makts for himself a hell, which, I believe, continues thereafter

"You ask me if I believe in future punishment. I say 'Yes,' because a man who deliberately in this life i eties God must nave anguish and remorse in the future life i n account of his neglect of God in this. There ars worse punishments than those which are simply material. The greatest anguish we suffer now is anguish of soul I know of no worso hell than that. 'I do not thi k that a minister has anything to gaiu by obscuring the doctrinaa of sin, or of n 11 or of punishment b;t at t e same time t e -reat motive w ic'i Jhfos set before the sinrvr was the infinite lovt. of the Father. Therefore the chief t eme in my own ministry is t e love of Goi. " I believe t at to be a greater to a gnon" life than the preaching of futarc torment. "