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 prudential considerations—from an enlightened regard to their own temporal interests, or through fear of disgrace, punishment, or worldly loss of some sort. So from like considerations, and under the rigid discipline to which the devils are subjected and which I have here hastily outlined, the universal hell may ultimately be brought into such complete subjection to the angelic heaven, (whose numbers and influence, it is believed, are continually increasing), that the violent commotions and outbreaks which are now so frequent, will entirely cease. When this takes place, we can easily see that, although the hells will still remain unchanged as to their essential nature, they will be like the tamed tiger—submissive, and therefore harmless. We can see, too, that, by their subjection to the heaven of angels, or to the emanating and controlling sphere of law and order, their own peace and comfort will be increased, and the welfare of the moral universe promoted to an extent beyond the power of imagination to conceive.

Such is a brief outline of the New Doctrine of Hell;—a doctrine which builds itself impregnably upon the constitution and laws of the human soul, which accords with the teaching of sound philosophy, with the dictates of reason, with the facts of history, with the record of human experience, and with the teachings of Scripture rationally and spiritually interpreted.

How different this doctrine is from the one taught in