Spurgeon on Eternal Torture.
By Editor
REV C. H. Spurgeon of London, in his sermons, published 1856, says: "The angel, binding you hand and foot, holds you one single moment over the mouth of the chasm. He bids you look down, down, down! There is no bottom; and you hear coming up from the abyss, sullen moans, and hollow groans, and screams of tortured ghosts. You quiver, your bones melt like wax, and your marrow quakes within you. Where is now thy might? and where thy boasting and bragging? Ye shriek and cry, ye beg for mercy; but the angel, with one tremendous grasp, siezes you fast, and then hurls you down with the cry, 'Away, away!' And down you go to the pit that is bottomless, and roll forever downward—downward—downward—ne'er to find a resting-place for the soles of your feet." Page 313. "But in hell, there is no hope. They have not even the hope of dying—the hope of being annihilated. They are forever—forever—forever lost! On every chain in hell, there is written forever! In the fires, there blazes out the words, forever! Up above their heads, they read, forever! Their eyes are galled, and their hearts are pained with the thought that it is forever." Page 314. NOTE.—In contrast with this we have only to remind the reader that the Bible says of the wicked simply that they shall be burnt up root and branch, be destroyed, consumed, and be as though they had not been. Whether Mr. S. has not transcended the representations of the Bible, on this subject the reader can judge for himself.—ED.