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An abridged 2nd Edition of Henry Constable's "The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment" with a foreword by C.L.Ives.
TO THE AMERI...
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An abridged 2nd Edition of Henry Constable's "The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment" with a foreword by C.L.Ives.
TO THE AMERICAN READER:
Taught from childhood, as doubtless you also have been, that all souls are possessed of immortality, and that, for the wicked ones, hell is a place of eternal torment, I ever accepted he belief, and for years have earnestly enforced it upon others.
But, during a recent journey in Europe, my faith in that doctrine was staggered by the sight of the multitudes there, and at the thought of the outlying millions still of Asia and Africa, all hurrying on to God’s tribunal. Can it be, that in their heedlessness and ignorance, or in their delusive strivings after pardon, they are to meet a doom such as, in its infinity of torture, the human mind could neither conceive nor endure the thought? I had learned to know somewhat of the love of God, the Creator and upholder of these lost millions; how could I redoncile that with the accepted doctrine of unending suffering? I did try, faithfully; even, in these struggles of the mind, writing home to a doubting Christian brother to confirm him in this belief, which I feared was slipping from under me.
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