The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-08-30
OCCts-ss-e-s-s-s-.-s-.-s
PGJ LPL I. .
Immortal Worms
and
Unquenchable Fire
Where their worm dieth not and
their FIRE is not quenched' (Mark tx.
Az.

ed" He said The same in the follow
ing verses respecting the foot and the
eye. Was he speaking literally or fig
uratively? Does any sane person sup
pose today that Jesus advised literal
cutting off of a hand or foot or the
plucking out of an eye? Assuredly
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 IL 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 II 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 1t 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 tho Second Death.
The word hell in our text is from the
Greek word 0ehenna which, in turn,
was corruption of the Hebrew word
0eI-hinnon, which signifies valley of
death. There are two other words in
the New Testament Greek translated
hell In our common version. One OF
these, tdrtdrus. has no reference to hui
manity whatever, but merely signifies
our earth's atmosphere-the place
where Satan and the fallen angels are
restrained In chains of darkness QI
Peter II, ~. The other Greek word
rendered hell in the New Testament is
hddes, which corresponds exactly to
the word rendered hell in the Old Tes-
lament, namely SheOl. And all scholars
know that both of these words signify
the same thing. They are used inter
changeably I'm the Scriptures to desig-
nate the state or condition of death
the tomb. No person, of even slight
education, would for moment at
tempt to claim that eternal torment is
taught by Shcol, hades or tartarus The
great stress of all who teach eternal
torment falls, therefore, upon the word
he'll found In our teXt-in the original
Greek, 0ehennG.
What we have TO say respecting 1t
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 land,
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 cd
ucated ministers, however, and why,
as pastors, they have kept the sheep
OF their flock In the dark on the sub
Iect 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
dishonorlng our Creator disappearing
his holy name, his holy character, by
mlsreprescnting 1t and the Divine
Plan.
a Valley Outside Jerusalem.
! wish that those of you who have
modern Bibles with maps at the back
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 Geh-hinnon, the Greek of which
Is gchcnna, All Of our Lords uses OF
the word gchenna stand related t
that Valley. For the sake OF my lar
ger congregation II will be worth while
for us TO take glance backward nj
the/history Of that Valley during many
| centuries before Jesus day
The first mention of this Valley II
the Bible IL found in Joshua (Xv, 81
whore 1t is given ms one of the boun
darles of the tribe of Judah, accord
Ing to the lot cast by Joshua in tn,
division of the land that had come In
10 possession OF the lsraclltes. II Il
again mentioned similarly In Joshul
XVIII. 10, The next reference TO thl
Valley IL found In ii Kings XXiii, lC
rhcre we read of how Josiah, the goo,
King OF Judah, instituted great re
form In the nation and abolished idol
airy. one of the most helnous forms o
the ldolatry having been practised Il
this Valley of Hinnom, which had got
/