Father Furniss' "Books For Children"

This is the sick story of the English priest Father John Furniss, 1809 - 1865, the so-called "Children's Apostle" of the Catholic Church, and his "Books for Children" in which he describes in graphic detail how an unmerciful God and Jesus will judge children without pity and send them to hell to be burned and tortured forever should they die having committed an unrepented mortal sin. His sick books are still available from Catholic Way Publishing (and Amazon.com). Here's one called "The Sight of Hell" which describes how a child is condemned to hell and then led down into the torture chambers once he realizes no pity from God or Jesus will be forthcoming. Baud2Bits also does a good youtube video on the subject. The video at this point, is especially horrible. Baud2Bits reads from Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner's book[1] "The Christian Hell; From the First to the Twentieth Centuries" in that series of videos (Furniss is covered in the 11th part of the series).

This website has several of Father Furniss' books online to read. Now for a few more excerpts about the dungeons of hell:

XXVIII. The Fifth Dungeon

The Red Hot Oven

Ps. xx. Thou shalt make him as an oven of fire in the time of thy anger. You are going to see again the child about which you read in the Terrible Judgement, that it was condemned to hell. See! It is a pitiful sight. The little child is in this red hot oven. Hear how it screams to come out. See how it turns and twists itself about in the fire. It beats its head against the roof of the oven. It stamps its little feet on the floor of the oven. You can see on the face of this little child what you see on the faces of all in hell -- despair, desperate and horrible! The same law which is for others is also for children. If children, knowingly and willingly, break God's commandments, they must also be punished like others. This child committed very bad mortal sins, knowing well the harm of what it was doing, and knowing that hell would be the punishment. God was very good to this child. Very likely God saw that this child would get worse and worse, and would never repent, and so it would have to be punished much more in hell. So God, in His mercy, called it out of the world in its early childhood.

XXVI. The Third Dungeon

The Red Hot Floor

Look into this room. What a dreadful place it is! The roof is red hot; the floor is like a thick sheet of red hot iron. See, on the middle of that red hot floor stands a girl. She looks about sixteen years old. Her feet are bare, she has neither shoes nor stockings on her feet; her bare feet stand on the red hot burning floor. The door of this room has never been opened before since she first set her foot on the red hot floor. Now she sees that the door is opening. She rushes forward. She has gone down on her knees on the red hot floor. Listen, she speaks! She says; "I have been standing with my feet on this red hot floor for years. Day and night my only standing place has been this red hot floor. Sleep never came on me for a moment, that I might forget this horrible burning floor. Look," she says, "at my burnt and bleeding feet. Let me go off this burning floor for one moment, only for one single, short moment. Oh, that in the endless eternity of years, I might forget the pain only for one single, short moment." The devil answers her question: "Do you ask," he says, "for a moment, for one moment to forget your pain. No, not for one single moment during the never-ending eternity of years shall you ever leave this red hot floor!" "Is it so?" the girl asks with a sigh, that seems to break her heart; "then, at least, let somebody go to my little brothers and sisters, who are alive, and tell them not to do the bad things which I did, so they will never have to come and stand on the red hot floor." The devil answers her again: "Your little brothers and sisters have the priests to tell them these things. If they will not listen to the priests, neither would they listen even if somebody should go to them from the dead."

Oh, that you could hear the horrible, the fearful scream of that girl when she saw the door shutting, never to be opened any more. The history of this girl is short. Her feet first led her into sin, so it is her feet which, most of all, are tormented. While yet a very little child, she began to go into bad company. The more she grew up, the more she went into bad company against the bidding of her parents. She used to walk around the streets at night, and do very wicked things. She died early. Her death was brought on by the bad life she led.


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Notes:
[1] Thanks to "Tomp" for pointing out Hypatia Bonner's book available for download online. 


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Dan Courtney documents a more modern version of this going on at so called "Good News Clubs" which are for children as young as five years old, run after hours at public school campuses. These clubs are run by something called the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) and their material is disgraceful: 
http://tinyurl.com/nrha7vr 

Herer's one of their sick "children's activities":

1. Prepare two envelopes. In one place a slip of paper with the word DEATH.

2. Have a child stand with you in front of the class, and tell him or her "I've got something for you, (child's name). You've earned this. Just like you can earn what's in this envelope. Do you know what you've done? (Let child respond.). You've done something we've all done - you've sinned."

3. Tell the child, "Let's see what you've earned by sinning. (Have child open envelope and read slip of paper with the word DEATH on it.)... You have earned death - separation from God forever in a terrible place of punishment..."

Life of Christ, Book 1, p28.

Christian propaganda about hell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yItJpd0VeAU