Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-30

of the great image after it had been
fired to a red heat with fuel piled I'M
derneath the image and passing
through it as flue. The cries of these
infants SO horribly sacrificed were
drowned by the cheers of the worship
pers and various musical instruments.
All of this, indeed everything akin
to suffering, was strictly forbidden
by the Divine Law given to Israel.
And they had been specially warned
against this very form of idolatry
leviticus xviii, d. Deuteronomy
xviii, 1G). 1t is a gross mistake and
SANDER of the Divine character and
Law to suppose that it ever sanctioned
torture And it is a still worse SLAM
der upon God to suppose that he would
himself do, and that for all eternity,
what he condemned in his fallen crea-
lures.
The Lord declares all this through
the Prophet jeremiah (vii. 31-34). Here
God particularly forewarned the Israel
ties that their wrong course would
eyentuate in the terrible time Of trou-
BILE which came upon Jerusalem in the
year A. d. 40, when it was estimated
that over a million died at the siege
of Jerusalem. In fulfillment of this
prophecy the Jews cast the dead bodies
over the wall of Jerusalem into this
very Valley Thus we read, Behold,
the day is come, saith the Lord, that it
shall no more he called Topheth, nor,
The Valley of the son of Hinnom, but,
The Valley of Slaughter; for they shall
bury in Topheth till there be no place.
And the carcasses of this people shall
be meat for The fowls of the heaven,
and for the beasts of the earth"
After the reformation made by King
Josiah the Valley of Hinnom was desc
Grated to the intent that it might never
afterward be considered fit for any
kind of religious worship, sacrifice or
ceremony. 1t became the valley Of
defilement 1t was used at certain
| times for the burning of the offal and
rubbish of the city. 1t became the
dumping place of dead cats and dogs,
etc. If any of these fell upon the
| lodges of the rock, no one thought
worth while to interfere, and the mag
COTS and worms destroyed them. Fires
| also We're lighted occasionally TO burn
the combustible rubbish, and birthstone
| was added so that the fumes might
| destroy any malarial tendency, in the
interest of the health of the city
The Lesson Jesus Taught.
We have before our minds now the
gehenna fire which no one ever at
| tempted to quench, but which was de-
| signed to consume utterly everything
cast into it. We have in mind also the
worms of which he spake-worms
which were permitted to feed on the
| carcasSes undisturbed until the car
| cases were consumed and the worms
themselves died. Another item here
| should be noticed, namely, that a say
| ing amongst the Jews was, Whosoever
commits such a misdemeanor will be
| in danger of going from bad to worse
| until he will be brought before the
| tribunal of the Sanhedrin, a culprit
| Jesus took the same line of proverbs
| and declared that anyone violating the
| Golden Rule to the extent of calling
| his brother a fool would be i. danger
eventually Of such DEPRESSION from
| righteousness as to bring him under
sentence of the greater tribunal of
Messiah's Kingdom, and whatsoever
shall say unto his brother, Thou art
| a fool. shall be in danger of gehenna
fire" Matthew V, 22).
What the Great Teacher meant was
that the earthly Jerusalem was a pic
ture or type of the heavenly Jerusa-
| lem, which represents the Divine Gov
eminent or KingdOm-the New Jeru-
| salem which, by and by, will come
| down to earth-when Gods will shall
be done on earth as it is done in
| heaven.
As gehenna lay outside of the wall
| of Jerusalem, so our Lord intimated
there would be an antitypical gehenna
outside the New Jerusalem. AS the
trash and offal of the typical city were
consumed in the Valley Of Hinnom, so
| the offal and trash of humanity who
will refuse all of Gods favors, mercies,
blessings and opportunities, will be
treated as disgraceful wretches and be
consumed, destroyed. in the antityp-
| ical gehenna-which is the Second
Death Concerning this antitypical ge-
henna, the Second Death, we are def
| nitely informed of the characters which
will there be destroyed utterly, as Pc
ter says, "as natural brute beasts"
We have a description of this sym
bolical New Jerusalem or Divine King
dom Revelation xxi, composed pri-
marily of the Church, and secohdarily
of all from the world who, during
Messiah's reign, will enter in through
its gates and enjoy the blessings of
Divine favor and life eternal And
then we read, verse s, '"But the fear
full, and unbelieving, and the abomina
BILE, and murderers, and whoremong-
ers, and SOrcerers, and idolaters, and
all liars, shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire and brim-
stone. viii 4 is the Second Death"
Note that this lake of fire and brim-
stone into which all the offscouring of
humanity will be cast is a symbol, and
the meaning of the symbol is plainly
stated in the words. (Which is the Sec
ond Death" The first death passed
upon all mankind on account Of father
Adams disobedience. Our Lord Jesus
was appointed the Savior Of Adam and
his race and gave his life a ransom for
all, TO rescue all from death. to give
TO each and every member of Adams
race one full, fair opportunity for a
test of loyalty to God and righteous
ness and t. secure life eternal in the
New JerusG lem. Contrariwise all who
will reject hat fun opportunity win die
the Second Death, from which there
VIII be no redemption. no resurrection,
no recovery of any kind.