FEAR OF HELL FIRE

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 259, 3 December 1929, Page 7

FEAR OF HELL FIRE

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ADVENT SERMONS IN MOTHERLAND.

Deprecation Of Ghastly Pictures.

LONDON, Dec. 1. Two celebrated ecclesiastics, Dean Inge and tlie Bisliop of London, expressed views on liell during Advent Sunday sermons. Dean Inge, preaching at St. Paul's, deprecated tlie ghastly pictures of hell whicli filled Cliristian literature. He said tlie Roman Catholic Churcli attempted to solve the problem by the introduction of purgatory, whieh was a plausible theory. Modernist Protestants reall.v helieved in purgatory, not in hell. He would be the last to wish to revive tlie terrible symbolism. of hell torture, but thore was a great danger to-day of entirely banishing tho fear. The Bisliop of London, preaching at Westminster Abbey, said it seemed certain that there were passages in St. Matthew attributed t-o Clirist wliich He never said. Pictures of roasting souls made more atheists than anytliing clse in tlie world. When self will ceased liell ceased, because self will was hell. He added that altliougb a death occurred in London every eight minutes it was the liardest- thing in tlie world for tlie majority to realise tliat their owij end must eventually come.