5 oo THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



" the worm which never dies " — i. e., by the anguish of remorse ; 

 they are doomed to endure the society of others reprobate like 

 themselves, and they know that all hope is over. After the resur- 

 rection the body also is subject to torment. It is certain that hell 

 is a definite place, but uncertain where. Many of the fathers and 

 theologians have held that it is in the center of the earth. Origen 

 and some who followed him have thought that the punishment 

 of the wicked would not be eternal, but a council has defined that 

 the punishment of hell lasts forever. 



Mr. C. H. Spurgeon, the celebrated English Baptist, says, in a 

 sermon on The Resurrection of the Dead : 



There is a real fire in hell — a fire exactly like that which we have on earth, 

 except that it will torture without consuming. When thou diest thy soul will be 

 tormented alone in hell ; but at the day of judgment thy body shall join thy 

 soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, body and soul together, each brimful of 

 pain ; thy soul sweating in its inmost pores drops of blood, and thy body, from 

 head to foot, suffused with agony; not only conscience, judgment, memory, all 

 tormented, but thy head tormented with racking pain, thine eyes starting from 

 their sockets with sights of blood and woe; thine ears tormented with horrid 

 noises ; thy heart beating high with fever ; thy pulse rattling at an enormous rate 

 in agony; thy limbs cracking in the fire, and yet unburned; thyself put in a 

 vessel of hot oil, pained, yet undestroyed. 



Heine's Reisebilder contains a witty caricature of the ortho- 

 dox hell, in which his satirical genius has free play. 



The Presbyterian Confession of Faith teaches that the punish- 

 ment of sin shall be separation from God, " and most grievous 

 torments of soul and body, without intermission, in hell-fire for- 

 ever." 



That Unknown Country, a large octavo volume published in 

 1889, contains fifty chapters, each contributed by a living theo- 

 logian as his views concerning punishment after death. These 

 statements contain little description of the torments of hell ; they 

 are devoted mainly to discussing whether or no any of the con- 

 demned can shorten their term of punishment by repentance after 

 death, and whether hell may not end with either the final salva- 

 tion or annihilation of all the wicked. In this book Bishop Fow- 

 ler, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, says that the popular 

 conception of hell should be freed from the physical flames to be 

 correct. Rev. Chauncey Giles (Swedenborgian) compares hell to 

 an asylum for the incurably insane. Rev. Edward Everett Hale 

 says, " No Unitarian supposes that life after death is limited in 

 any way, so that one place in the universe can be mapped off as 

 heaven, and another place mapped off as hell." Dr. A. A. Miner 

 (Universalist) maintains that "punishment after death for the 

 sins of this life is not taught in the Word of God." C. W. Pritch- 

 ard, minister in the Friends' Church, Chicago, says, " Heaven is 



