PULPIT MUST PREACH HELL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19529, 11 July 1925, Page 17

PULPIT MUST PREACH HELL.

A BISHOP’S BELIEF. Modern preachers have lost their punch and must get back to the doctrine of hell fire and damnation in order to keep their flocks in the green pastures of salvation, according to the Bishop of Lincoln. “ Hell is real.” the Bishop assorts, in attacking modern methods of soul-saving, "hut modern religion fails to remind people of it. " In a little more than a generation the Christian pulpit has lost the note of seventy. Preachers of the old guard lived and taught in awful apprehension of the judgment to come. It is worthy of consideration whether tho milder message of our own generation is not out of harmony with tho actual world in which wo live and the facts of human experience. “In the lower world of Nature consequence reigns supnyne. It is a grave matter to violate the low of Nature, for Nature knows nothing of forgiveness. When we pass it to tho higher level, wo find that sin leads to unhappiness and misery. Bitterness, hatred, and selfishness breed sorrow. In this sense the Christian doctrine of hc!l is not so much an article of faith as a fact of experience. " Whether tho misery which is tho outcome of an evil will is endless is another question, but if the same moral law prevails in tho world beyond the grave as prevails here and now—and it is unthinkable that there can be two moral laws—then beyond the grave, ein unrepented must bring misery.”