world, such as the scientific origin of the earth, the length of the seven days of creation, the truth about the flood, etc., etc. The WATCH TOWER and Herald of Christ's Presence This journal, founded by the author of SCRIPTURE STUDIES, should regularly visit all who have the slightest interest in the topics discussed in this and the other treatises of the SCRIPTURE STUDIES series, booklets, etc. It is issued twice a month, 16 pages, at $1.00 a year in advance for the United States, or $1.50 a year to Canada and foreign countries. That none of the interested may be without it, the arrangement is that those who need may have it on credit on application while those too poor to pay may receive it regularly free by stating the facts and making request each year. Published by: WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY BRANCHES: LONDON, W., MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, TORONTO, OREBRO, BARMEN, ZURICH, BERNE, ETC. This Society never solicits donations, but it uses voluntary contributions as wisely and economically as possible in the propagation of Christian knowledge along the lines presented in SCRIPTURE STUDIES. It yearly circulates tons of tracts and papers free, through the mails and through voluntary agents. It justifies that portion of its name which relates to the Bible (not by publishing Bibles, nor by circulating them gratuitiously, but) by supplying Bibles and Bible-study helps at wholesale prices; and often below the usual wholesale rates. We mention a few of these on accompanying pages, of course ranking SCRIPTURE STUDIES as the most important helps or "Bible Keys", and THE WATCH TOWER, semi-monthly, their efficient supplement. What Say the Scriptures About Hell? AN EXAMINATION OF EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE IN WHICH THE WORD "HELL" IS FOUND. CORRECT understanding of the subject of this booklet is almost a necessity to Christian stead of "orthodoxy", of all shades, that God, before creating man, had created a great abyss of fire and terrors, capable of containing all the billions of the human family which he purposed to bring into being; that this abyss he had named "hell"; and that all of the promises and threatenings of the Bible were designed to deter as many as possible (a "little flock") from such wrong-doing as would make this awful place their perpetual home. While glad to see superstitions fall, and truer ideas of the great, and wise, and just, and loving Creator prevail, we are alarmed to notice that the tendency with all who abandon this long revered doctrine is toward doubt, scepticism, infidelity. Why should this be the case, when the mind is merely being delivered from an error?-do you ask? Because Christian people have so long been taught that the foundation for this awful blasphemy against God's character and government is deeplaid and firmly fixed in the Word of God-the Bible and consequently, to whatever degree their belief in "hell" is shaken, to that extent their faith in the Bible, as the revelation of the true God, is shaken also;-so that those who have dropped their belief in a "hell", of some kind of endless torment, are often open infidels, and scoffers at God's Word. Guided by the Lord's providence to a realization that the Bible has been slandered, as well as its divine Author, and that, rightly understood, it teaches nothing on this subject derogatory to God's character nor to an intelligent reason, we have attempted in this booklet to lay bare the Scripture teaching on this subject that thereby faith in God and his Word may be reëstablished, on a better, a reasonable foundation. Indeed, it is our opinion that whoever shall hereby find that his false view rested upon human misconceptions and misinterpretations will, at the same time, learn to trust hereafter less to his own and other men's imaginations, and, by faith, to grasp more firmly the Word of God, which is able to make wise unto salvation; and on this mission, under God's providence, it is sent forth. PRICE 15 CENTS PER COPY-88 PAGES Special wholesale rates to colporteurs and those who desire to aid in circulating these booklets widely. ADDRESS: INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, BROOKLYN, N. Y., U. S. A. |