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It used to be a favorite method of illustrating the eternity of torment to suppose that after a million of years one grain of soil were taken from the earth; then after another million of years, another grain; then after another million of years, another grain; and so on until the whole of the earth had disappeared; then repeat the proceeding ten thousand millions of times; and then eternity would be only beginning!
I was therefore anxious and grieved, until I brought her an image of our blessed father, and I said mass for the sick woman, and when I returned she was able to speak, and made a good confession; but utterance again failed her, and she died in peace. "When I returned the second time, I was called in haste to visit a sick woman, great with child, who was suffering violent pains and torment.
Whatever reforms have in special instances ameliorated them, have in so far only gone to show that the whole system is vicious and irrational. My friend and I looked at our new masters with curiosity; they looked at us with what might be termed arch amusement. With such a look do small boys regard the beetles, kittens, or other animals, power to torment whom has been given them.
Jealousy is an indelible sentiment in the female breast. Thus thwarted in all their hopes, forced to deny themselves the natural development of their natures, old maids endure an inward torment to which they never grow accustomed.
Now all was calm and sunset peace, and dew on the deck among the blood stains. And how beautiful it was, this strange twilight quiet, after the howl and torment of battle! Warily the boy opened eyes and ears. He was not dead then, not even wounded, only horribly parched, and how his head ached! Before him the cliff fell sheer and blank a white curtain dropped from heaven.
There is considerable emptiness in all this: he praises Laura's chastity, then grows impatient, then praises her again; adores her, calls her cruel, his goddess, his joy, his torment; he does not really want her, but in the vacuity of his feeling, thinks he does; calls her alternately the flat, abusive, and eulogistic names which mean nothing.
And now, instead of the torment to his nerves of seeing her fondle and kiss a brute of Charlie's, he had the not disagreeable spectacle of her pressing to her warm and rosy face an animal that related her caresses, even if loosely and distantly, to a less unworthy object. Sour and sad, dried up and done with women, a man still has feelings.
Of facts against the Law, done to private men, the greater Crime, is that, where the dammage in the common opinion of men, is most sensible. And therefore To kill against the Law, is a greater Crime, that any other injury, life preserved. And to kill with Torment, greater, than simply to kill. And Mutilation of a limbe, greater, than the spoyling a man of his goods.
That the advocates of eternal torment have no really deep conviction of its truth, let me also give a quotation that I have just met with: "That its advocates themselves have little or no faith in it is very manifest from the fact that it has no power over their course of action.
Yet the speaker is a Presbyterian minister who professes to believe in eternal torment. But not a word did he say on that topic. Surely, he might have found the supreme incentive there. It strikes me that a few earnest words along that line would have had more effect than his entire address. That is, if the doctrine of eternal torment is true, and if the preacher believes it.
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