Peace be to you.

In this lesson we are going to give you hell.

I mean the subject of hell.

Few today believe in either the devil or in hell.

Why do they not believe in the devil when there are so many devilish

things about? The communists have tried to convince us that there is no God. Actually, they have not convinced us of that, but they have convinced

us that there is a devil. We cannot explain all the evil in the world today.

If we are going to deny the evil one?

And that was the kind of question

that trench proposed in a very interesting little poem.

Men don't believe in a devil now, as their fathers used to do.

They force the door of the broadest creed to let his majesty through.

There isn't a print of his cloven foot or a fiery dart from his bow,

to be found in earth or air today,

for the world has voted so.

But who is mixing the fatal draught

that palsy's heart and brain,

and loads the earth of each passing year with ten hundred thousand

slain.

Who blights the bloom of the land today with the fiery breath of hell?

If the devil isn't and never was, won't somebody rise and tell?

Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint and digs the pit for his feet. Who sows the tears in the field of

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