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102 AEOTJND THE WORLD.
" The happiness of the elect in heaven will, in part, consist in witnessing
the torments of the damned in hell; and among these, it maybe,
their own children, parents, husband*, wives, and friends on earth." *
" When the damned have drunken down whole draughts of brimstone
one day, they must do the same another day. The eye shall be tormented
with the sight of the Devil, the ears with the hideous yellings and outcries
of the damned 'va. flames ; the nostrils shall be smothered, as it were,
with brimstone ; the tongue, the hand, the foot, and every part, shall fry
inflames.''^ f
" The God that holds you over the pit of heUmuch in the same way as
one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and
is dreadfully provoked ; his wrath towards you burns Like fire; he looks
upon you as worthy of nothing else than to be cast into the fire." %
*' The rich man, tormented in hell,
' lifted up his eyes,' and saw Lazarus
in Abraham's bosom; and to his entreaties for succor and intercession,
Abraham had replied, ' Between us and you there is a great gulf
fixed.' . . . Water boils at two hundred and twelve degrees 'Fahrenheit,
but it requires two thousand and six hundred degrees to melt rocks.
This, therefore, was the minimum of the heat of hell; whose/ron^/ers, therefore,
lie twenty-one miles below the surface of the earth. ... In these
eternal fires eveiy limb and member of our bodies, every nerve and muscle
and tendon, every part of us, in fire, over which the sense of feeling predominated,
would be for ever racked and tortured, axid yet never consumed."
§
Mr. Logan, feeding upon these sulphurous husks, longed
for fresh pasturage, and accordingly attended our lectures
upon Spiritualism. Other patrons of churches did the same.
The theological waters were troubled. Action must be
taken. The following was an ominous mutter —
:
DuxEDiN, March 19, 1873.
Mk. John Logan. Dear Sir, — I am directed to' summon you to
appear before the session at a meeting to be held in the front vestiy of
the church on Monday, the 10th instant, at half-past seven (7.30) in the
evenmg, to answer the following charges made against you; viz., That
you appeared on the platform of the theater at a public lecture, delivered
by Mr. Peebles, on the evening of the Lord's Day, 2d February last,
* Emmons's Sermons, xvi.
t Kev. Ambrose's Discoiirse on Doomsday.
t Presbyterian Tract Publication, p. 9.
§ Eev. Walworth's Sermon on Eich Man and Lazarus.