warn you whom ye shall fear: fear him which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell." "But," says one, "this hell means the Valley of Hinnom near Jerusalem." But allowing this, and allowing that the body might be thrown into this valley after death, what becomes of the soul? Was the soul, the immortal mind, to be cast into the Valley of Hinnom? And are we who live in America, when we die, if we die impenitent sinners, to have our dead bodies transported across the Atlantic Ocean and carried to Jerusalem, and there be cast into the Valley of Hinnom? We suspect that the fire has gone out in the Valley of Hinnom before this time!

Again: Jesus Christ said, "the hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall come forth: they that have done good to the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation." Speaking of the judgment day, Christ said he would then say, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. "These shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal." "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of the world. The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

"And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched; where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." This fearful declaration of our Saviour is repeated three several times.

Our Saviour's parable of the rich man and Lazarus contains the doctrine of future and endless punishment. "The rich man died and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments. And he cried and said, Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." But he was denied even a drop of water. The reply which Abraham made to him was, "Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed; so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence." This is a parable, and a parable always illustrates truth. This then is the doctrine which he taught, respecting the future punishment of the wicked, who was the founder of "this sect" so much spoken against in Rome.

What did his followers teach in regard to future punishment?

Says John the Evangelist: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him."

Says John, declaring the words of Christ: "I

said therefore that ye shall die in your sins, and whither I go ye cannot come."

Says Luke, recording the testimony of our Saviour: "Strive to enter in at the strait gate, for many shall seek to enter in and shall not be able."

Says Matthew, recording the same testimony: "For what is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" "But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." "There is a sin unto death; I do not say that he shall pray for it."

Paul says: "For many walk, of whom I have told you before, and now tell you, even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction.". "When the Lord shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints." "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense saith

the Lord. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"

Was Paul a Universalist preacher? Is there any thing in these quotations that afford the least shadow of evidence that he either taught or believed in the doctrine of Universal Salvation? If Paul was not a Universalist preacher, were his converts? And if Jesus Christ and his apostles and disciples did not preach or believe in this doctrine, what an awful dilemma are the Universalist preachers and their followers of the present day in! If the Great Founder of Christianity is against them-if all the apostles are against them -if all the Christian church is against them, what secret fears and misgivings must harass them, and what a dark cloud broods over their future prospects!

"This sect," then, which were so much spoken against in ancient times, held, as one of their cardinal doctrines, the future and endless punishment of the wicked. They were the immediate disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. The sentiments which they taught, and in which they believed, they received from the very lips of the Son of God, or from those who published the Gospel under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

III. What were the reasons then, and what are the reasons now, which induce ungodly men to speak against "this sect?"

As we have examined only one of the funda

mental doctrines which "this sect" held then, and which they hold now, so we will examine only those objections which are urged against this doctrine.

1. The doctrine of future and eternal punishment which "this sect" holds, imposes too great a restraint upon the wickedness of men. This is one of the reasons why this sect is so much spoken against. This doctrine not only declares that "the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations which forget God," but it involves a moral law; -a law of infinite and changeless purity-a law extending its holy claims to the interior dominion of the heart. Over all the great empire of mind it travels with God-like authority and God-like purity, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself,” is the claim which it sets up over all the vast territory of the intellect.

This, lawless men cannot endure. To this claim they cannot yield a cheerful acquiescence. But this claim would not call forth so many hard speeches, if it were mere advice. But when "this sect" maintain and show by infallible proofs that it is law-law armed with an appropriate penalty, then they are spoken against. When this sect meets the transgressor of this law, and declares to him, that "the soul that sinneth it shall die,” then he speaks against it. Men wish to sin unmolested, unawed, unrestrained. Men wish to sin without regard to consequences. It is so in this world. The thief has no idea that a violated law will over