TORTURE OF HELL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17124, 3 December 1929, Page 7

TORTURE OF HELL

AN ANCIENT SYMBOLISM

"GLOOMY DEAN'S" COMMENT (Klec, Tel. Copyright—United Pipss Assn.) LONDON, Dec. 2. Two celebrated ecclesiastics. Dean Inge and the. Bishop of London, expressed views on hell during Advent .Sunday sermons. Dean Ingcy at St. Paul's, deprecated the ghastly pictures of hell which filled Christian literature. He said the Roman Catholic, Church attempted to solve the problem by the introduction of purgatory, which was a plausible theory. Modernist Protestants really believed in purgatory, not. in hell. He would be the last to wish to revive the terrible symbolism of hell torture, but tli ere was a. great danger to-day of entirely banishing fear. The Bishop of London, at Westminster Abbey, said it seemed certain there were passages in St. Matthew attributed to Our Lord which he never said. The pictures of roasting souls made more atheists than anything else in the world. When self-will ceased hell ceased, because self-will 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 eventually come. ;