Preach the Word, Not Eternal Torment
By Editor
The Christian Endeavor World thinks hell is not preached enough. It gives four reasons: (1) It exists, and men ought to know it; (2) because millions are going there; (3) because men ought to be taught to fear God; (4) Christians should be reminded of the peril of hell. Under the third it says, "Sinners must be made to feel the terrors of the law, before they will appreciate the graces of the Gospel." True; but the only way to do that is to preach it as God has given it. He who preaches a changeable and changed law can never hope to obtain permanent results. God is One; His law is one. And if the one law is set forth aright, as God gave it, as Christ lived it, the one Spirit will arouse the sinner. He will see that death is the inevitable fruit of transgression. But the preaching of the dogma of an ever-burning hell is unscriptural, abhorrent to every just conception of God, and unfruitful of everything save the developing of superstition, the making of tyrants, and the spread of infidelity. The sinner will meet his final doom where he committed his sins—on this earth. Here also the righteous will, after sin is forever banished, reap his eternal reward. God's commission to His servants is, "Preach the Word," "preach Christ."