majesty and, hence, that an offence against Him is an infinite offence calling for an infinite punishment. And since I am a finite being, incapable of sustaining torments of infinite intensity and still bound to undergo an infinite punishment, therefore will my torments be infinite not in intensity but in duration. For my God is a just God, bound by His very nature to fit the punishment to the crime. He has promised explicitly to reward every man according to his works. Now, where is this promise fulfilled? On this earth? No, no, for I see around me a world of saints and sinners — the saints in poverty and misery all their lives, the sinners in affluence and happiness. In the next life? Therefore I say there must be a heaven of delights for the good and a hell of torments for the wicked! Or is it not fulfilled at all? Therefore my God is an unjust God and His promise of reward and punishment is a lie; and since a God who is unjust and untrue is no God at all, therefore, either hell exists or God is not. If I deny the existence of hell I must, to be consistent, deny the existence of God Himself. But I know that I have a God, just and true, and, therefore, reason and faith bid me receive His words as infallible when He says : " In the last day the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment, but the just into life everlasting."
Brethren, now that we feel sure there is a hell, let us try to realize what hell is. Let us go down in spirit to that gloomy cavern, that city of pain and woe, the abode of the damned; and let us pause a
