The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-09-02

Where their worm dieth not and |:
their FIRE is not quenched" MARX tx. /
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not. And the person who would fol-
low his counsel in that way would be
considered unbalanced in mind. We
all recognize what he did mean, name
ly. that if any who desired to have
eternal life found that they had him
ORANGES Of appetite or pleasure or
what not. as dear to them as an eye
foot. hand, these precious. but disqual-
flying sins or wrong -doings. should be
put away-no matter how precious
they were-no matter how highly es-
teemed. BY way of contrast. the Mas
ter suggested that if the retaining Of
these things would hinder them from
entering into life they could not af-
ford to retain them-that even if they
were to carry the figure further and
suppose that In the future life they
would be deprived to the extent of be-
ing MANNED to all eternity it still
would be preferable to them to prac-
tice the self-denial now and to enter
into life
Be it noted that the reward here in
dicated is in the entering into life. and
the intimation is that those who fail
will not have life at all--that they will
fail to attain life: that they will have
no eternal life. either in pain or in
pleasure. Let us examine our text
further and see this.
Gehenna Typed the Second Death.
The word hell in our text is from the
Greek word gehenna. which, in turn,
was corruption of the Hebrew word
geh-hianOn. which signifies ralley of
death. There are two other words in
the New Testament Greek translated
he'll in our common version. One Of
these. tarfaruS. has no reference to hui
mainly whatever. but merely signifies
our earths atmosphere-the place
where Satan and the fallen angels are
! restrained in chains of darkness Oil
! Peter ii. d. The other Greek word
rendered hell in the New Testament is
hades. which corresponds exactly to
the word rendered he'll in the Old les
lament. namely sheol. And all scholars
know that both of these words signify
the same thing. They are used inter
changeably in the Scriptures to desig-
nate the state or condition of death
the tomb. No person. of even slight
education, would for a moment at
taught by heol. hades or tattdr'ns. The
great stress of all who teach eternal
( torment falls. therefore. upon the word
he'll found in our text-in the original
Greek, gehennd.
What we have to say respecting it
will undoubtedly be news to but few
of this congregation. But since this
sermon will be reported in more than
seven hundred newspapers of the lan0.
our explanation will probably eventu-
ally reach ten million people, to whom
the Truth on the subject will be new
! What we have to say is not new to ed
i ucated ministers. however, and why,
as pastors, they have kept the sheep
of their flock in the dark on the sub
! ject is for them to explain. They GER
tainly cannot plead ignorance. At very
most they can apologize that they
/ hoped that the misunderstanding would
! do more good than the truth. They
seem to forget entirely that this terri
bic misunderstanding is not only
wrecking the faith of thousands, but
dishonoring OUR Notwithstanding
his holy name. bis holy character. by
misrepresenting it and the Divine
Plan
A Valley Outside Jerusalem.
| wish that those of you who have
modern Bibles with maps at the back
i would turn to the map of the City of
Jerusalem and there notice on the
Southwest side of the City. just out
side the wall. the Valley of Hinnom
That is the Valley that in brief was
/ called Gehhinnon. the Greek of which
is gehenna. All Of our Lords uses of
/ the word gehenna stand related to
1 that Valley. For the sake of my lar
ger congregation it will be worth while
for us to take a glance backward at
the history of that Valley during many
centuries before Jesus day.
The first mention of this Valley in
the Bible is found in Joshua XIV. g,
where it is given as one of the boun-
I diaries of the tribe of Judah. accord
ing to the lot cast by Joshua in the
division of the land that had come in
! to possession of the Israelites 1t is
again mentioned similarly in Joshua
xviii. 16. The next reference to this
! Valley is found in II Kings xiii 10.
/ There we read of how Josiah. the good
| King Of Judah, instituted great re-
| form in the nation and abolished idol
airy, one Of the most heinous forms of
/ the idolatry having been practised in
/ this Valley Of Hinnom, which had got
ten new name. namely Topheth. His
| tory tells us that the Israelites built
in this Topheth. the Valley of Hinnom,
great brass image to the heather god
Moloch. In various places they had
/ groves in which a licentious form of
worship was enacted and then they re-
sorted to This Valley of Hinnom to Of
| fer sacrifice of most revolving KIND
/ to the heather deity Sometimes 1t
was boy and some times 1t was a
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