The New Testament Idea of Hell
Treatise supporting the concept of hell. By S. M. Merrill, D.D. Printed in 1878.
“...If the Gospel is rejected, and the divine Redeemer set at naught, the penal fires of the invisible world may also be defied, and all the reformatory agencies of Hades may prove inadequate to secure the regeneration of men, whose aggravated obstinacy, gathered in the idolatries and sensualities of earth, has gone with them into the state of the dead. With such the transition from Hades to Gehenna will not indicate improvement. Their moral affinities must be for evil, and their tendencies downward. By the operation of moral gravitation they sink forever.”