Southern Christian Advocate

LOCALITY OF HELL.

Cavillers often ask where hell is. An answer to the question may be difficult. The question is a foolish one, to be sure, but fools must sometimes be answered according to their folly.— And so we might say that hell is in any place where God chooses to have it; or where sinners choose to have it; or where the devil makes it. Or it may be in some planet—or between the planets; or it may be in no particular place. It may be everywhere but in heaven!

Now all this depends on what hell is. And when this is determined, the question may be discussed. Hell is infinite misery. Wherever infinite misery is endured, is hell. If, to produce this, it is necessary to put all wicked men into one pit, they will be put there; if not, they may have more room.

"Misery loves company." No one pretends that sin can produce happiness. Solitary sin is therefore more miserable than social sin. Of course, then, they who deny that there is any such locality as hell, gain nothing by the denial. They make the matter worse. They deprive the sinner of the satisfaction even of social misery. It is therefore plain that if there be such a place as hell, all the wicked will be gathered there; if not, each sinner will have a hell wherever he goes with an unholy heart.

"Me miserable!
Which way I fly is hell—myself am hell!"
N. Y. Observer.
IRENEUS.