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that
hoped
that the misunderstanding
would do more good than the truth
They teem to forget entirely that
only wrecking of faith of thousands
but dishonoring our Creator
hla holy
tul
by misrepresenting It and the
Divine
A Valley
I wish that those ot you who have
modern Bibles with
at the back
would turn to the map of the City of
Jerusalem and ther notice on the
Southwest side ot the
Juit outside the
the Valley of
that In brief was
hat la the
called
the Greek of which
Is
Lord's uses of
All of
stand related to
word
to get the the
the devilish Interpretation
For the sake of my larthat
true lesson of the words of the
It will be worth while
Thousands are drifting off ger
us
take
a glance backward at
to
for
Into more or less open infidelity
history of that Valley during many
because the Irrational interpretation the
Jesus'
given to the text and two or three centuries
The
first mention of this valley In
these errors have become the Bible
Is
In Joshua
found
bo fastened in our minds from childwhere It Is given as one ot the bounhood days that they have become part daries
the
accordof
tribe ot
so that
and parcel of our very
many ot us would have been Inclined ing to the lost cast of Joshua In the
of the land that had come inat one time to dispute the very exist- to possession
the
It Is
ence of
as much as to dispute such again mention ot similarly
In Joshua
slanderous misrepresentations of his
The next reference to this
glorious
Valley is found In II Kings
Entering Into
There we read of liow
the good
Let us go back to Jesus' day and In King of
Instituted a great replace
mind
ourselves wit
who form in the nation and abolished idoheard mm utter the words ot our text latry one of the most heinous forms of
and
The Teacher had Just the Idolatry having been practised In
they had offend
cut It this Valley of
which had gotIHs-I- n
off
It Is better for thee to enter into ten a new
namely
life
having two
this
the Valley of
to go into
Into the Are that never a great brass image to the heathen god
In various places they had
where their Worm
groves In which a licentious form of
not and their fire Is not
He said the same in the followworship was enacted and then they reing verses respecting the foot and the sorted to this Valley of
to reWas he speaking literally or
fer sacrifice of a most revolting kind
Does any sane person supto the heathen
Sometimes it
pose today that Jesus advised the litwas a boy and sometimes it was a
eral cutting
of a hand or a foot or girl that was placed naked in the arms
Assuredly of the great image after It had been
the plucking out of an
And the person who would fol- fired to a red heat with feul piled unlow his counsel In that way would be derneath the Image and passing
considered unbalanced in
We through It as a
The cries of
all
what he did
Infants so horribly sacrificed were
any
who desired to have drowned by the cheers ot the worshipthat if
eternal life found that they had hin- pers and various musical
All of
drances of appetite or pleasure or
Indeed everything akin
as dear to them as an
to
was strictly forbidden
what
todisqualthese
but
the Divine Law given to
ifying sins or
should be And they had been specially warned
put away no matter how precious against this very form of Idolatry
they we're no matter how highly
Deuteronomy
By way of
It is a gross mistake and
suggested that If the
of Blander of the Divine character and
these things would hinder them from Law to suppose that It ever sanctioned
entering into life they could not afAnd it Is a still worse slanford to retain them that even if they der upon God to suppose that he would
were io curry me
una mat
an
ami
suppose that in the future life they what he condemned In his fallen
would be deprived to the extent of being
to all eternity It still
The Lord declares all this through
would be preferable to them to practhe Prophet Jeremiah
now and to enter Here God particularly forewarned the
tice the
Into
Israelites that their wrong course
Be It noted that the reward here inwould eventuate In the terrible time of
dicated is in the entering into
and trouble which came upon Jerusalem In
the Intimation Is that those who fall the year A.D.
when It was estiwill not have life at all that they will mated that over a million died at the
fall to attain
they
siege
of
will have
In
of
that
no eternal
either in pain or in this prophecy the Jews
the dead
Let us examine our text bodies over the wall of Jerusalem Into this very
Thus we
further and see
the day Is
saith the
Typed the Second Death
more be called
no
shall
that
it
The word hell in our text is from the
The Valley of the son of
Greek word
In
The Valley of
was the corruption of the Hebrew word for they
bury In
shall
till
which signifies valley of there
And the carcasses
be no
There are two other words In of
people
shall be meat for the
this
the New Testament Greek translated fowls
and for the beasts
hell In our common
One of of the of the
has no reference to huAfter the reformation made by King
manity
but merely signifies Josiah
Valley of
was deseour earth's atmosphere
the place crated the
to the Intent that It might never
where Satan and the fallen angels are
any
afterward be considered fit
restrained In chains ot darkness
or
The other Greek word kind of religiousbecame tho sacrifice
Peter
valley
of
It
rendered hell in the New Testament Is
It was used at certain
which corresponds exactly to times
ofthe offal and
for the burning
the word rendered hell In the Old
rubbish of the
It became the
namely
And all
dumping
place
cats
of
dead
and
know that both of these words signify
If any ot these fell upon the
They are used Interthe same
ledges
no
thought
one
of
the
changeably In the Scriptures to desig- worth while to
and the magnate the state or condition of deuth
gots and worms destroyed
Fires
No
the
of ven slight also
were lighted occasionally to burn
atwould for a moment
the
combustible
brimstone
and
tempt to claim that eternal torment Is was added so
that the fumes might
taught by
hades or
The
in the
malarial
great stress of all who teach eternal destroy any
the
of
interest
health of the
upon the word
torment
The
Jesus
Lessons
hell found In our text In the original
We have before our minds now the
What we have to say respecting It
Are which no one ever atwill undoubtedly be news to but few tempted to
but which was designed
consume utterly everything
of this
But since this
sermon will be reported In more than cast Into It We have in mind also the
worms of which he
Beven hundred newspapers of the
worms
our explanation will probably eventuwhich were permitted to feed on the
ally reach ten million
to whom carcasses undisturbed until the carcasses were consumed and the worms
the Truth op the subject will be
What we have to say Is not new to ed- themselves
Another Item here
should be
ucated
and
that a say- as
they have kept the sheep Ing among the Jews
Whosoever
of their flock in the dark on the subcommits such a misdemeanor will be
ject Is for them to
They cerIn danger of going from bad to worse
tainly cannot plead
At very until ho will be brought before the
me
ui our
Thae oras
havo been
the Great
grievously
Hie teaching of our
i
was to
the effect that onU the saintly elect
heaven
others
would ko to
would not
but gain
hem
an eternal life in toino ni
Thus our
portray what
ti st vim understood
practically the whole world of mankind
This
would be compelled to
hell was pictured to our childhood
as heated
minds from outside the
If we expressed wonto a white
human creader or surprise that
conditions to
ture could endure
long the answer was that God would
exercise his omnipotent power to make
Some
US
and
theologians of the
ent so far as to
school of thought
sufIn
picture the poor
ferings and to hou that the heat
would form a kind of asbestos covering which would shield them from a
Hut those
measure of its
deluded theologians proceeded to excoverings
would
plain that these outer
crack and shell off every little
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leaving the poor victim
tender
that his suffering might be the more
intense
Of i
these theologians of the
past had their difficulty in dealing with
the worms They could Imagine devils
who would oversee the torture as being
made Immune to pain by the chief
But Just how
the Almighty
to Imagine the worm getting along In
so great a heat and how they would In
any wise Increase the torture of the
sufferers was to many a perplex
along
But patient
these cruel and devilish lines enabled
theory
that the
tome to formulate the
living In
worms would be
delighting in fire worms that
would bore through the incrustations
and add still further to the horrible
sufferings of the world of
i
In
whose
and whose
God neither de-t- r
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nor
h an
d
the
my dear
is not
ht
We must
some
of the
s words more consistent with his
un
and with the Heavenly
and more
v ith our own conception
of what
Wise and Powerful
a ir would
It does not
as so many
the purpose to
do not discuss such a mater
Nobody now believes such
This one scripture repudiate d would shake our confidence In the
whole
But rightly explained
nd understood It would settle and
e our faith In the Scriptures as a
Divine
Thief
must be
or object not merely to cast from us
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Did the Great Teacher Intend that
such conclusions should be drawn from
his
And did he atop short
of the description from reasons of symIn this
pathy or modesty or
general teaching erf God's Word
great
a
haa
and
terrible mistake
ir
And have we mistaken
a
of speech and treated it as
We misunderWe
literal
The Great Teacher who
stood
d his
when
Jano s and
desired to call fire from heaven
because the
the City of
e
thereof refused to sell them
d lor the Master the sympathetic
who
know not
ine
said to
hat manner of spirit ye are
the
man came not to destroy men's
to
save
could that
hut
a of man in any wise intend to tell
is that our great Heavenly Father had
the spirit of love and
s than the two Impetuous
Did he mean to Intimate that while the
disi
Impetuously might have been
u Using to
the earthly life of
he
the Heavenly
HtiU
more demoniacal
io J treat practically all man
en million times worse than that and
s.
Tower to all eternity to
tho sufferings of his earthly
his own word declares
v i
try the delt
ca
a culprit
tribunal of the
r
Jesus took the tiame line of
violating
and declared thai
Golden Rule to the extent of
his brother a fool
be In
eventually
a digression
righteousness as to bring him under
sentence of the greater tribunal of
Messiah's
shall say unto his
i hou art
a
shall
in danger of
they had always
simply and yet
with
good to be
where there's
no toadying to
George told
still think I'm as poor
as I was when I left here five yearB
It's certainly good to get away
from the toadying with which everyone tries to ingratiate himself with
the people here find out how w
am they'll chance toward me
As George Eat on the step
his
uncle's home
about
thin
part of the
tin station
wandered up and
himself on the
beside
The fatter told
elf that he knew
Just how the station master's
would
when he told him
the
about
atInstead of
At his uncle's house the letter's
torneys read the will to
to George sot the surprise of his lin
livi
don't suppose
acre
he found
intense
now that
got all that mi
suggested the station master
my urn le
know about
Rasped Grorge
the station master replied
knew when he made It ui a
lucky strike In some mining
k
m
about four years
and he
to leae
he
to
I
nothing
heard
vou didn't mu
about It
u got
anyone
glad
We're
with
her mine we like
It when I
in
the village
h
we all knew It that
nu
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the lawyers wrote for
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where are you going to
Going to
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cried
on your
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at
true fH
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THE
Tribune's Daily
Short Story
THE FORTUNE
Frank
What the Great Teacher meant was
that the earthly Jerusalem was a piccalled from railroad
Forest
ture or type of the heaVenly
by the
Texas
construction
which represents the Divine Government or Kingdom the New Jeru- death of
stepped from the
by and
salem
will come train ot to the platform of the little
down too earth when
will shall
Brampton
be done on earth as It Is done in
good to be home
he
As
lay outside of the wall told
I've hardly
so our Lord Intimated
of
been here two weeks In the past five
there would be an
Still it's
the only real
outside the new
As the
trash and offal of the typical city were home I've ever
and I'm glad
consumed In the Valley of
so to get
the offal and trash of
who
old station masThe pleasant-face- d
will refuse all of God's
and
will be ter hurried up to him and
treated as disgraceful wretches and be him heartily on the
destroyed In the
to see you
the
which
the Second
Concerning this
station master
don't
we are defi- suppose you're going to be here
the Second
nitely Informed ot the characters which I sympathize with you In your Uncle
will there be destroyed
as Pe- Crawford's
he
as natural brute
ter
We have a description of this symthe young man
bolical New Jerusalem or Divine Kingknow Uncle Tim Craw-tor- u
Attractive Suburban Home
dom
composed primarily of the
and secondarily
of all from the word
during Mewill enter In through
ssiah's
Its gates and enjoy the
of
life
Divine favor
And
we
then
verBe
the
and the
and
and
and
and
and
and
all
shall have their part In the
lake which
with fire and
which is the Second
Note that this lake of Are and brimstone into which all the
of
humanity will be cast Is a
and
symbol
Is
meaning
of the
the
is the
stated in the
Second
The first death
upon all malkind on account of father
Adam's
Our Lord Jesus
was appointed
savior of Adam ana
his race and gave his life a ransom for
to give
to rescue all from
to each and every member of Adam's
race one
fair opportunity for a
of loyalty to God and righteous- ness and to secure life eternal In the
New
Contrariwise all who
will reject that full opportunity will
die the Second
from which
no
there will be no
no recovery of any
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verv well
and i never got
and I must confess that I
heard of his death without a twinge
of
I'm only here now because I'm his only living
and
he ought to have a relation at the
his lawDON'T
SUPPOSE
yers seemed to want me
As
YOU'VE
I only wish I could LIVE HERE NOW THAT
to
here
SUGTHAT
ALL
GOT
you
This Is my
STATION
GESTED
THE
and there's nothing I'd like better than
to settle right
glad to hear
to hear
that his uncle was millionaire and had
the station master
As George walked slowly up the deeded his entire property to
wan a
numerous many Georgewealthier
main street ot the
than he ever
times
other of his boyhood friends and hoped
to
acquaintances met him and told him
means goodby to my home
heartily that they were glad to see
Everyone greeted
he told himself
as
him
O SELF CURE NO FICTION
NOW
NO SUFFERER
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Constable Takes Insane Man on
Lonely Journay
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this denim is
There is a pretty reception
and kitchen are conveniently
of
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precarious
The lad Is In
but there Is good hope or
saving the wounded
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Constable T. R. Folkes arrived from
the T. C. R. construction north oi
bringing with him over n lone
ly trail and water route of more than
who
two hundred miles Tony
is suffering from a violent form of insanity prompting him to make conon
tinued attempts at suicide
down he tried to
the boat and in other
Ha w.-to kill
as
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Off
the
son of Henry Hender- living south of
met with a
The
most painful accident last
fellow undertook to
the binder while his father did the s too
It became necessary to clear the cutting bar of weeds and while the lad
was In front of the machine the team
started forward and Harold was
by the right leg half way between
The knife cut
knee and
In struggling
the bone and
escape the lad became
cut slightsevere
and received another
When
ly higher up on tho same
extricated he was brought to town for
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