...as possible for these unregenerate babies and makes the divine judge say to the condemned children: "A crime it is; therefore in bliss You may not hope...unto you I shall allow The easiest room in hell." But the better day was rapidly advancing. 1800 was the turning point and the new century was breaking...

...quality may be given by quoting the last words of the verdict upon those who have died in infancy : — " A crime it is ; therefore in bliss You may not hope...dwell ; But unto you I shall allow The easiest room in Sell." A generation which found it possible to accept such a passage without feeling it to be either...

...hlect. Rev. 21:27. Yet to compare your sin with their Jj".^ 8 who liv'da longer time, Mat- "="• I do confess yours is much less though every sin's a crime. " A crime it is, therefore in hliss The wicked you may not hope to dwell ; convinced But unto you I shall allow and put to i •...

...sinlessness. The Judge declares them under the sin of Adam and therefore out of the pale of salvation: " A crime it is, therefore in bliss you may not hope...unto you I shall allow the easiest room in hell." Yet from such rigid theological moulds was fashioned a race of men and women of whom an eminent Catholic...

...sinlessness. The Judge declares them under the sin of Adam and therefore out of the pale of salvation : " A crime it is, therefore in bliss you may not hope...unto you I shall allow the easiest room in hell." Yet from such rigid theological moulds was fashioned a race of men and women of whom an eminent Catholic...

...Doom, makes the Almighty treat unbaptized children with the same indulgence: A crime it is, therefor in bliss You may not hope to dwell; But unto you I shall allow The easiest room in hell. 8 Cf. Shakespeare: To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice....

...Wigglesworth's blazing and sulphurous poem, The Day of Doom, in which "reprobate infants" were assured that in bliss You may not hope to dwell ; But unto you I shall allow The easiest room in hell, was at the height of its long-maintained popularity. But Wigglesworth had passed away in 1705 and his...

...fruit was interdicted : Yet on us all of his sad Fall, the punishment 's inflicted. The answer is : — A Crime it is, therefore in bliss you may not hope...unto you I shall allow the easiest room in Hell. The early colonists bought this book in such numbers that it may be looked upon as America's first and...

...compare your sin, with their Who lived a longer time, I do confess yours is much less Thou' ev'ry sin 'sa crime. A crime it is, therefore in bliss You may not...But unto you, I shall allow The easiest room in Hell !" And thereafter the dreaded doom is pronounced by Master Wigglesworth. Infants and sinners all depart,...

...interdicted : Yet on us all of his sad Fall, the punishment 's inflicted. 1612-1672] The answer is : — A Crime it is, therefore in bliss you may not hope...unto you I shall allow the easiest room in Hell. The early colonists bought this book in such numbers that it may be looked upon as America's first and...