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'''4. Shall all be equally happy? '''

No; for ' every one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor'—i.e., according to his deserts (1 Cor. iii. 8).

'''5. What will be the life of the wicked through all eternity? '''

A life without any grace or joy, a life full of pains in hell.

'''6. What is hell in the words of Christ? '''

'A place of torments' (Luke xvi. 28); 'an everlasting punishment' (Matt. xxv. 46); an 'unquenchable fire' (Mark ix. 44); 'the exterior darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth ' (Matt. viii. 12).

'''7. Who shall be condemned to the torments of hell? '''

Every one who dies an enemy of God — that is, who dies in mortal sin.

'He that committeth sin is of the devil' (1 John iii. 8); therefore, he also deserves to be punished like the devil. (Comp. Matt. xxix. 41.)

'''8. What sort of pains shall the souls of the damned suffer? '''

1. Internal torture and despair at the thought of all the evil they have done, and of the many graces they have abused (Wisd. v. 1-15; Matt. viii. 12); 2. Unspeakable sadness and misery, because they have, by their own fault, forfeited eternal happiness in Heaven (Luke xiii. 25-28); 3. Perpetual horror of the dismal