“ROASTING SOULS”
CHURCHMEN DEPRECATE HELL THEORIES
LONDON DEAN AND BISHOP CONDON, Sunday. Two well-known churchmen, Dr. R. W. Inge, Dean of St. Paul's, and the Bishop of London, Dr. A. F. Winningtoil Ingram, expressed their views on hell in Advent Sunday sermons.
Dr. Inge, preaching 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, but not in hell. Pie would be the last to wish to revive the terrible symbolism of hell torture, but there was a great danger today of entirely banishing the fear of it.
The Bishop of London at Westminster Abbey said it seemed certain that there were passages in the Gospel of St. Matthew attributed to Our Lord which He had never said.
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 of persons to realise that their own end must eventually come.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 9
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