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O Church of Christ, what wilt thou say
When in the awful judgment day,
They charge thee with their doom,
They charge thee with their doom.
Refrain:
Theyre passing, passing fast away
In thousands day by day;
Theyre passing to their doom,
They,re passing to their doom.
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The points to note especially are Simpsons sensitivity to the stark tragedy of the masses headed
for eternal punishment and the urgency of motivating Christians to endeavor to put a stop to it by
means of large scale evangelistic and missionary ministry.

D. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Introduction
The Tours of Hell as a literary genre seems to have virtually disappeared after the
medieval period. Yet the imagery used in picturing Hell did recur in the more fiery Hellfire
preachers during the next century (e.g. Jonathan Edwards). But even this imagery largely faded
out during the twentieth century as most of the relatively few remaining preachers who still
stressed Hell softened their language when addressing more sophisticated audiences.
Nevertheless, in the second half of the twentieth century, glimmers of this genre began to
reappear, though not necessarily conforming entirely to the ancient Tours.
2. Jimmy Hatlo
Hatlo was a cartoonist with a flair for humor, perceptive insights into annoying human
foibles, and clever imaginative ideas for appropriately (?) punishing them. Evidently not writing
from a Christian perspective, he called his cartoons Hatlo's Inferno. Originally published in
newspapers, many of them were later collected and republished in book form,
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As his title,
Inferno, may suggest, his pictures of Hades (or Hell) were more like those of Dante than of the
Bible.
In several of his cartoons Hatlo drew a tour vehicle or place for observation where a
demonic tour guide was with a group of people who were looking at demons inflicting
punishments upon the residents in Hades (or Hell). Either the tour guide or another demon would
explain the significance of the punishment which they saw being inflicted.

Cartoon 1 pictures the punishment placed upon the man who regularly drove his car through mud
puddles, splashing anyone nearby.

Cartoon 2 portrays the fate of the golfer who only yelled ,,fore after his ball had hit someone.