HELL the Last Day: Depart from Me, ye cursed, into the everlasting fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.” In this passage are contained the three truths about hell which have already been set down : that it involves separation from God (“Depart from me”): that it involves punishment (“fire”): that it is everlasting fire. And there is the further assertion that the souls of the damned in hell will be in the company of those angels who, like them, fixed their wills in eternal enmity with God. Apart from this passage, however. Our Lord is constantly referring to it. In the Sermon on the Mount, for instance. He reminds sinners of Hell six separate times. And this fact is worth weighing by those who would dismiss the doctrine as contradicting the Divine love. For no one would question Christ's love for men: yet the doctrine is undoubtedly His. There is, it is true, a mystery in the fact of Hell: but it is not a mystery of God's cruelty: it is a mystery of the human will with its possibility of fixing itself in evil. 137