torment for any--were made generally known, the effect upon the world
would be to increase its wickedness, to make life and property less
secure than now, and to fill the world still more than now with
blasphemies.

"(2) They fear also that a certain amount of discredit would come to
themselves because, knowing that the Bible does not teach eternal
torment according to the Hebrew and Greek original, they secreted the
knowledge from the people. They fear that this would forever discredit
them with their hearers. Hence, they still outwardly lend their
influence to the doctrine of eternal torture, which they do not believe,
and feel angry with us because we teach the people the Truth upon the
subject, which they know will bring to them hundreds of questions
difficult to answer or dodge."

But it is not often that orthodox ministers emphatically present the
horrors in which they profess to believe. Take, for instance, Dr.
Torrey. In a late sermon, when warning sinners, he is reported to have
said: "You will go out into eternity disgraced forever." Is that all?
Only disgraced? Why does he not present the horrors of eternal fire in
which he professes to believe?

Another minister, whom I know, spoke lately of wicked men as "going out
into the darkness, miserable failures." Such trimming fails to command
the respect of sensible, honest men.

Those who hold the larger view have no need for such evasions. I have
just had a letter from one of the most eminent English theologians, in
which he states his view thus: