is there a hell?
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Is there a Hell?
WRITTEN DURING A NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY ON THE SUBJECT.
O God! great God! answer Thou me,
If mortal may dare to question Thee,—
Is there a hell?
A place of torment where the soul,
Long as eternal ages roll,
Is doomed to dwell?
A place where, to appease Thine ire,
The souls of men must burn in fire
Unquenchable?
If mortal may dare to question Thee,—
Is there a hell?
A place of torment where the soul,
Long as eternal ages roll,
Is doomed to dwell?
A place where, to appease Thine ire,
The souls of men must burn in fire
Unquenchable?
Father! O Father, Infinite!
Would'st doom to everlasting night,
To endless pain,
Souls that repented them too late?
Is Divine wrath insatiate?
And would'st Thou gain
Aught that would serve a God like Thee
By witnessing the misery
Of suff'ring men?
Would'st doom to everlasting night,
To endless pain,
Souls that repented them too late?
Is Divine wrath insatiate?
And would'st Thou gain
Aught that would serve a God like Thee
By witnessing the misery
Of suff'ring men?
O God! great God! pity Thou me,
If, questioning thus, I anger Thee;
But we rebel
Against the thought that love like Thine
Could such a fiendish plan design
As create hell;
The thought is a monstrosity—
A slur on Thy divinity:
Is there a hell?
If, questioning thus, I anger Thee;
But we rebel
Against the thought that love like Thine
Could such a fiendish plan design
As create hell;
The thought is a monstrosity—
A slur on Thy divinity:
Is there a hell?
