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 2. God punishes impurity with the greatest Feverity in eternity. This we know from Holy Scripture, where God states that the impure will be excluded from the kingdom of heaven: " Do not err: neither fornicators, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate shall possess the kingdom of God" (i Cor. vi., 10). "Know ye this and understand, that no fornicator or unclean person hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God" (Eph. v. 5). By the inheritance of Christ the kingdom of heaven is understood, and of this God said: "There shall not enter into it anything defiled" (Apoc. xxi. 27). Terrible indeed are the judgments of God as regards the impure; He shuts them out from His kingdom and will not tolerate them in His presence. Nor is this all; they are cast into hell. "They shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death" (Apoc. xxi. 8). In the fire of hell they will groan forever in despair. u The smoke of their torments shall ascend for ever and ever: neither have they rest day nor night" (Apoc. xiv. 11).

Here we see the chastisements meted out to the impure. God punishes them in this life and in the next. "He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone and storms of wind shall be the portion of their cup " (Ps. x. 7). Even in this life they shall suffer for their crimes, but far more sharp will be their suffering in eternity, when the gates of eternal life shall be closed against them and the gates of death shall open to receive them. "They will descend to the place where everlasting horror dwelleth" (Job x. 22).

To-day we have considered the gravity of sins of impurity and the chastisements which