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HELL.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS SCOTT,
11 THE TERRACE, FARQUHAR ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD
LONDON, S.E.
Price Threepence.
�LONDON :
PRINTED BY C. W. BEYNELL, LITTLE PULTENEY STREET,
HAYMARKET, V.
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INTRODUCTION.
“ Dieu condamne aux enfers la plupart des
hommes.
“ L’enfer est bon et aimable comme une partie
très-considérable du palais de Dieu. Il venge
tous les mépris et toutes les injures de Dieu, ’en
quoi il lui rend un très-grand service qui fait que
quiconque aime Dieu sincèrement doit aussi
aimer l’enfer sous, ce point de vue.”—Théologie
Affective, Bail.
The work from which the above extract is
taken is long and interesting.
Founded upon the teaching of S. Thomas
Aquinas, it imparts, in five closely-printed
volumes, a considerable amount of information,
conveyed in lucid and forcible language, of which
the above quotation is a favourable specimen.
Bail thinks Hell good and amiable. Those who
love God sincerely ought, in his opinion, to love
Hell too, because in that large portion of God’s
palace he is avenged of his adversaries.
Some people may envy Bail the inward and
spiritual light which enabled him to discern the
beauty of damnation. Others may drift away
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from Hell to Calvary, and wonder of what use
the Atonement was, if, as Bail assures us, God
condemns the greater part of mankind to Hell,
and places himself under an obligation to the
Devil. But one and all may like to know where
Hell is and what sort of an existence its inmates
lead.
Availing ourselves, therefore, of the informa
tion afforded us by a contemporary writer, who
views Hell from a very practical point of view,
we will take a brief survey of the place which
“ Eternal justice had prepared for those rebel
lious.”
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N inexpensive but unusually comprehensive
little work has long been before the public, but
has not hitherto received the attention it deserve®,
though a striking quotation from it has found its
way into Lecky’s interesting pages.
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The book costs only a penny, and may be bought
of Duffy in the Row, or of any other Roman Catholic
bookseller. It is drawn up for the use of Roman
Catholic children, but it cannot fail to interest and
edify adults of all denominations. It is written by
the Rev. Father Furniss—a name in curious harmony
with its title, ‘ The Sight of Hell.’ Published like all
Roman Catholic works permissu superiorum, it has
the sanction and probably the approval of Cardinal
Manning. It is a work of considerable merit, the
result not merely of minute research, but of deep
conviction, and it needs but a few good illustrations
by the hand of some God-fearing artist to take its
rank as the best Guide to Hell before the public.
Swedenborg has written at greater length upon the
fertile theme, but his work is too mystic for the
general reader ; that of Father Furniss is adapted to
every capacity—it is a simple and soul-stirring pro
duction. There is only one point about which the
writer seems in any uncertainty, and that is the
exact locality of Hell; however, he thinks it likely
to be 4‘ in the middle of the earth just four thousand
miles off.” Bail, on the contrary, seems to consider
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it a part of Heaven, and S. John, in the unintelligible
work attributed to him, favours the supposition by
telling us that the smoke of Hell penetrates into the
region of bliss, an arrangement quite irreconcilable
with mundane notions of comfort.
All Christians are supposed to know—and all
Roman Catholic children are very distinctly taught,
that Hell was created for Lucifer the Seraph, and
about a third of the inhabitants of Heaven, who, for
one sin of thought, and without one minute’s time
for repentance, were suddenly thrust into the new
wing of what Bail is not afraid to call “ God’s
palace,” and which Father Furniss has described in
such glowing language. He tells us that “ millions on
millions” are in Hell, and that so long ago as the
time of S. Teresa, it was inconveniently crowded, for,
during the visit of that great Saint to those great
sinners, she found it “ impossible to sit or lie down,
for there was no room.” From each inmate is
emitted an odour of such a nature that if but one
body were removed and placed among us, “ in that
same moment every living creature on the earth
would die,” and Father Furniss is of opinion that
the bad smell is increasing. An incessant and
appalling noise prevails there; the poor prisoners
“ hiss, howl, wail, shriek, groan, and yell; ” but there
is a worse still, for above all you hear “ the roaring
of the thunders of God’s angerof course a good
and an amiable anger by no means at variance with
“ His tender mercies which are over all His works,”
and of which the eternal torture of the damned is an
eloquent proof.
How long the angelic host had undisturbed pos
session of Hell we are not informed. Countless ages
may have elapsed ere the monotony was broken by
the entrance of the first ill-fated human being whose
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name and crime are nowhere recorded. In the
celebrated ‘ Catéchisme de Persévérance,’ the Church
teaches that, with the exception of beauty, “les
mauvais anges n’ont rien perdu de leurs dons
naturels,” we may therefore venture to assume that
until the mundane multitude began to pour in daily,
the social condition of Hell was endurable ; for
Lucifer was one of the highest order of angels, called
Seraphim, when that horrible thought was put into
his angelic mind and caused the instantaneous damna
tion of a third of Heaven. Who put the sinful thought
into the seraphic mind has never transpired.
At that time Lucifer was handsome—now he is
hideous. S. Francis saw him. He was sitting upon
a great beam which passes right through Hell. He
is so tall that his hands can be chained to the roof
and his feet to the floor. Horns smoking like
ehimnies come out of his head. His breath is foetid
and fiery. His eyes are full of pride, anger, rage,
spite, blood, fire, and cruelty. Who made him so ?
This.is the description given of the Devil by a great
Saint.
People have become so familiar with the word
Devil, that one would suppose it occurred very
frequently in the Bible; however, it is not to be
found at all in the Old Testament. As synonymous
with idols we see it four times in the plural number,
but of Satan we hear nothing until we come to the
book of Chronicles. Brought forward by theologians
of all persuasions,’ with what some might consider
unnecessary and injudicious prominence, we are some
times forced to consider him and his melancholy
mission, especially when such a book as the one we
are engaged upon falls into our hands.
Animated, doubtless by an excellent motive, Father
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Furaiss has produced a work of questionable utility,
more calculated, some might think, to promote con
vulsions than conversion. We will give two ex
tracts.
The children alluded to, have been previously
cursed in the following words, taken from ‘The
Terrible Judgment,’ by the same author :—
“ The curse of God the Father Almighty is upon
you ; I am God the Son, my curse is upon you ; the
curse of the Holy Ghost who sanctified you is upon
you ; the curse of every creature is upon you.”
“ THE RED-HOT OVEN.
“ ‘ Thou shalt make him as an oven of fire in the
time of thy anger ’—Psalm xx. You are going to
see again the child about which you read in the
‘ Terrible J udgment ’ that it was condemned to
Hell! See ! it is a pitiful sight. The little child is
in this red-hot oven. Hear how it screams to come
out. See how it turns and twists itself about in the
fire. It beats its head against the roof of the oven.
It stamps its little feet on the floor of the oven. You
can see on the face of this little child what you see
on the faces of all in Hell—despair, desperate and
horrible ! The same law which is for others is also
for children. If children knowingly and willingly
break God’s commandments they must be punished
like others. This child committed very bad mortal
sins knowing that Hell would be the punishment.
God was very good to this child. Very likely God
saw that this child would get worse and worse and
never repent, and so it would have to be punished
much more in Hell. So God, in his mercy, called it
out of the world in its early childhood.”
Thus ends the story of the red-hot oven which a
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merciful father prepared for his little child, and into
which he thrust her because he was so fond of her !
We will give one more extract from Father
Furniss
“What are they doing?
“ Perhaps at this moment—seven o’clock in the
evening—a child is just going into Hell. To-morrow
evening at seven o’clock go and knock at the gates
of Hell and ask what the child is doing. The devils
will go and look. Then they will come back again
and say, the child is burning. Go in a week and ask
what the child is doing; you will get the same
answer, it is burning! Go in a year and ask, the
same answer comes, it is burning! Go in a million
of years and ask the same question, the answer is
just the same, it is burning/ So if you go for ever
and ever you will always get the same answer, it is
burning in the fire”
Longer and equally horrible passages might be
chosen, but enough has been quoted to show with
what wholesome and inviting food the lambs of the
Roman Catholic fold are fed, those lambs of whom
the mild Son of Man is reported to have said t—“ It
is not the will of my father that one of these little
ones should perish.”
Sincere anxiety for the salvation of souls has,
we doubt not, urged Father Furniss to condense
into a very small compass a collection of horrors
from which adults turn away with dismay, wondering
that the “ superiors ” by whose permission the infernal
little book is printed and circulated, sanction any
thing so ill-calculated to impress the golden rule
upon the infant mind and so utterly at variance
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with the injunction attributed to Jesus, “If thine
enemy hunger feed him, and if he thirst give him
drink.”
Fortunately for the interests of what is called
religion, no little children and very few adults
“ meditate upon these things.” Those who do,
neither fear the Hell nor covet the Heaven of
theology. It is the generally received opinion
among the Fathers that Adam had been created
but a few hours when Lucifer succeeded in procuring
his ignominious dismissal from Paradise; but we have
never heard how soon after his creation Lucifer
himself was exposed to the malevolent and fatal
influence of some occult agent who, like the Satan
of the book of Job, was suffered to present himself
“ before the Lord ” and to achieve the instantaneous
transformation of angels into devils.
Accustomed from our childhood to hear much
and often about the Fall of man, the depravity of
our nature, our proneness to sin, innate tendency
to evil thoughts, etc., but wholly unaccustomed to
“meditate upon these things,” we sometimes lose
sight of the still more startling and indigestible
doctrine of the Fall of the Seraphim, the imper
fection of their nature, tlieir proneness to evil
thoughts, and their consequent liability to be pre
cipitated into Hell. How are we to know that evil
thoughts are now banished from that haven of
rest where once they wrought such disastrous and
abiding consequences ? Those who are aspiring
to that “ better land,” where “ the ways are ways
of pleasantness and all the paths peace,” may
rejoice that religion and theology are not synony
mous—that it is possible to love God sincerely
without loving Hell too, and that they can train
up their children in the way they should go, with
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out having recourse to Father Furniss’s method of
salvation by fear—a method singularly at variance
with the teaching of One who is reported to have
said, “Whoso shall offend one of these little ones
which believe in me, it were better for him that a
millstone were hanged about his neck, and that
he were drowned in the depths of the sea.” How
ever, perhaps “ the end justifies the means; ” in
which case ‘ The Sight of Hell ’ will contribute ad
majorem Dei gloriam.
PRINTED BY C. W. BEYNELL, LITTLE PULTENEY STREET, HAYMARKET.
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