The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-02-03
MoLocH WORSHIP.
How Abraham's Defendants Fell Into
Idolatry--its Horrors The
Moloeh of Today

Again thou shalt say to the chill
dren Of Isrcal, whatsoever he be Of the
lchiidren OF Isreal. or OF the strangers
that sojourn in Isreai- that giyeth any
OF his seed to Moloch, he shall surely
be put to death the people Ct the
Hand shall stone him with stones.
IOur text, the words OF Moses, found
lin Leyiticus 20;9, was uttered near Mt
!Sinni about $500 years ago, and refers
to grieyous heresy-and It's punish
ment Moloch Worship"
Moloch, or Molech. is enc of the
first idols that beguiled the bolk de-
seconded from Abraham and large
numbers Of them forsook the true
land living God for the embrace OF
! his arms King Solomon. even. be-
eame an apostate to Mcloch, Il Kings
l1l.7, 992 B. CO. Moloch and Baal are
supposed TO refer TO the same deity.
!onlv under the worship Of the former
human sacrifices are offered. Young
children were the peculiar sacrifice
demanded by Moieich.
1
This God was worshipped under
1.-The form of a statue of brass, or cop
lper. erected in the valley of Hinnom,
lclose to the present site of jerusalem;
HE is pictured as a monster with the
head of an OK possessed OF human
hands. extending at such an angle
from his body that any object the
sacrifiee placed within them would
Islowly but surely pass into the awful
lintericr, where a fierce fire waited the
helpless victim.
The idol was hollow 70 drown the
cries Of the doomed child or affrighted
animal, the Syrian drum, or "toph.
was beaten. loudly; hence the deriva-
Tive, @tophet," literally. the image Of
hen itself II is almost ineoncelyable
that human beings. parents Of chill,
dren. could SO far forget the father.
lmother love, and the brute instinct 10
light to death for the preservation of
1.-THE offspring. as to offer voluntarily
an innocent baby girl or boy to Mo
llech
| However giving te Molech" was
not passing through the fire re-
lferred to in Lev 1921. And thou
shalt not let any of thy seed pass
through the fire TO Molech.' Here, the
lehiidren We're passed through, or car
Tried through. the fire in honor of the
lgod. by some process unknown to us,
lresulting not in their destruction, but
In being badly burned or severely
lscorched A writer says. incredible
as it may seem, traces of this idolatry,
passing through the fire" until quite
recently existed in certain parts of
| Ireland.
1t is certainly a horrible comment
larry on the inhumanity OF the mothers
Of Tyre and Sidon, and those OF the
Hebrews who practieed this idolatrous
worship in offering up their babes e
please the hungry god. but we have
only to recall certain practices OF
heather peoples OF today. to be con
WINGED that men and women will sub
nit TO the most horrible exactions
relative to their forms Ct worship.
What terrible sacrifices different re-
ligious zealots require of the rank and
file of those who subscribe to their
unreasonable and disgusting ay, cruel
creeds
For Illustration. the Hindoo mother
who throws her child to the crocodile
and to a horrible death sacrificing il
because her religion teaches that she
is blessed for so doing or the rite OF
"suttee" a. practiced without restraint
in India until the year 1929 (at which
time it was made unlawful by the
British goyernmentD. aud not yet
wholly obliterated: The selfimmoia-
ton Ct the Hindoo widow upon the
funeral pyre Of her dead husband an
act OF religious fanaticism. the mark
Of an obedient and true wife" Or the
practice. Of his deyotees, OF pros
trating themselves before the car OF
Juggernaut. TO be crushed into shape
less masses Of flesh and bones. as the
IDOLS place Ct residence is being
changed. or the doctrine OF Islam
the entrance to Paradise Is beneath
the crossed swords. making the Turs
a fatalist. especially If he be fighting
to propagate his religion
Tn the contemplation Of the horrible
aud disgusting features Of Moloch-
worship ones soul revcits as the hun
dreds OF infantile tragedies enacted
in the valley OF Hinnom later 10 be-
come the figure OF punishment in the
Ispirit-worll under the skillful brush Z
Of the Nazarene, pass before MS. A
sin for the Israelites to offer Their
children To the Phoenician god? Yea /
verify. or the death-penalty would not 1
have been given as its antidote. or
preventive. Bear in mind that then. /
as now. the parents were the lawful
and logical keepers and protectors Of f
their Offsprings. AMI the loving and
wise parents make the utmost exer-
tions TO provide for their children. T
Especially as relates 10 temporal al
fairs. nutritious food. warm clothins +.
mental AMI physical culture. a good /
start 10 life a munifcent Request al /
ldeath-these are a few Of the thing
That uzranfa afrfra ana uao-iErs g.. &