AN EVIL HERESY
THE BELIEF IN HELL PREACHINGS ATTACKED RESPONSIBLE FOR CRUELTY (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, October 4. An attack on preaching the fear of hell was made by the Bishop Liverpool, presiding at The Church Congress. He declared it could be understood once when everybody took it for granted that an eternity of physical suffering urns the probable fate of many. That old symbol Mas now gone. It was questionable whether the Church did well by adhering to it. Jerome K. Jerome, speaking at the commemoration of St. Francis, advised ihe ecclesiastical authorities of all denominations to clear hell out of flic way. “We do not believe in hell nowadays,” he said. “It is the. belief in bell that is largely responsible for the spirit of cruelty abroad among men. There is no authority for the Church preaching a God- cf cruelty and revenge. It is au evil heresy, stultifying Christ’s teachings, and until it is openly and authoritatively recanted the Church remains the advocate and apologist of cruelty.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 7
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