ence to that deep and malignant love of evil, which is sometimes manifested, that, "it is pure and unmitigated evil, and has not even the poor excuse of having been done for the sake of selfish gratification." But we believe that a careful examination will show, that there lies concealed within all such evil conduct, the deepest and most intense selfishness. A form of self love, which appears to be the moving principle of many of the worst evils, is the love of rulings—that love which seeks dominion, even at the risk of rendering an immortal spirit eternally miserable; a love which, were it possible, would gladly destroy goodness itself, and would find its deepest delight in doing so. This love, when developed in all its infernal fullness and malignity, constitutes the lowest and most desperate hell; that hell which is directly opposed to the heaven which is formed by the love of goodness. Such will be the final and full-consummation of that infernal state, of the beginning of which there are very manifest indications even here in the natural world.
But there is also the hell that is formed by the love of falsity. This is the hell of those who, though not vile enough to love evil for its own sake, are nevertheless in the love and practice of those things which are false in doctrine, as well as wrong and disorderly in life; and they do this with the full consciousness, that evil is inseparably connected with falsity, as its necessary consequence. This love when fully developed, constitutes that hell of infernal falses, which is directly opposed to the heaven which is formed by the love of truth. This hell is the depository and source of all those false doctrines which result from the perversion of truth.—From hence comes that fatal perversion of the true doctrine of the Divine Trinity, which teaches that there are three Divine Persons, separate and distinct, with different attributes and powers, each having an independent conscious volition, and yet all somehow united into one. And from the same source comes the doctrine which teaches that faith and not charity, is the essential principle of religion; is the
