Word: hell
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps the most significant literary work done by a Harvard professor for a number of years is Professor Norton's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Hell, the first division of the poem, is as yet the only volume published, but the Purgatory and Paradise will probably be out before the winter is over...
...sermon last night to a large crowd of interested hearers. His text was the words of Christ reiterated frequently in the gospels-"follow thou Me." The common idea of Christianity is that if offers to the world the alternative of a Heaven in which all is joy and a Hell in which all is pain; Heaven is to be gained by "believing in the Lord Jesus Christ," and Hell by disbelieving. Why do not all believe? Because this idea is a pagan idea grafted upon the pure stem of Christian faith. Christ does not offer anything so easy...