Don’t be deceived about Hell! Hell is not the grave, or the cessation of man’s being, or a myth, or a byword. It is a real place —the only place for lost sinners. There is no purgatory near Hell where men appease the anger of God by their sufferings. There is no limbo where infants who die without having received the sacrament go. There is only one place—the Hell prepared by God—for all unsaved people.

The word “Hell” occurs 11 times in the New Testament. Five of these times it came from the lips of Jesus Christ. Our Lord was what the religious world of today would have called “a Hell-fire preacher.” Jesus Christ was constantly warning men about the reality of Hell-fire. It was to Him a grim fact. No minister can follow Christ without preaching on the subject of Hell.

Eddy, Armstrong, and Russellism deny the existence of a literal, burning Hell. Liberal ministers speak of it as a figure of speech, not a literal fact. Professional preachers seldom if ever speak to their worldly-minded members about this subject. Unsaved people seek to somehow remove the doctrine of Hell from the minds of people by making it no more than a byword. Beware of anyone who denies the reality of Hell. The denial of this truth is the most attractive form of infidelity. Those who do not believe in a literal, burning Hell will when they lift up their eyes in it.