Article January 3, 1901 Issue

Religious Items

The Boston Post publishes the statement that the Rev. William S. Fritch, recently resigned from the pastorate of the Second Congregational Church of Attleboro, Mass., because his religious convictions were no longer in harmony with the Church doctrines. The following declarations of belief, which he is said to have made from his pulpit, show his position:—

"Evil is error, delusion, a mere negation. It is to goodness what cold is to heat. Cold is simply the absence of heat. All life is lived under eternal principles. Doing good brings its immediate reward, and doing evil its penalty. The penalty is corrective. An absolutely evil being would be an impossibility, for absolute wickedness means absolute death.

"A hell of everlasting torment is therefore impossible.

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