The Valley of the Shadow
Eight sermons on the doctrine of future punishment preached by Charles H. Hall, D.D. at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, February 10 to March 10, 1878.
... “In old times when men ignorantly believed in animals always existing horribly in the hottest fires: when they superstitiously explained volcanoes as the fiery prisons of Jove, who with terrible vengeance kept his enemies confined in them--it was natural to look beyond the first idea of burning, and fill the fancy with unnatural horrors of perpetuated mystery. We do not have their excuse. Can we not stand still, and listen to the words of Christ, and stay our roving theories just where he leaves us? And then, for what is beyond, in the far blue depths of eternity, God help me to accept what may be there, when I can better understand what eternity means, to him or for me.”