The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-29

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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 IL any who desired to have
eternal life found that they had hin
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 IL the retaining OF
these things would hinder them from
entering into life they could not ar
ford to retain them that even II 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 II still
would he preferable TO them to prac-
into life.
BE It noted that the reward here In.
dicatcd Is In the entering into llfe and
the intlmatlon 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.
Gehsnns Typed the Second Death.
The word he'll in our text is from the
Greek word gchennd, which, in turn,
was n corruption of the Hebrew word
geh-hnnOn. which signifies rdiieU Of
death. There are two other words in
, the New Testament Greek translated
| he'll In our common version. one OF
| these, idrfdrHS. has no reference to In.
manlty whatever, but merely signifies
| our earths atmosphere place
where Satan and the fallen angels are
restrained In chains OF darkness III
Peter II. ~. The other Greek word
rendered he'll In the New Testament Is
hddeS. which corresponds exactly TO
the word rendered hel IN the Old les
lament. namely sheet. And all scholars
know that both or 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 moment at
tempt To claim that eternal torment is
taught by Sheol. hades or fartdrus. The
great stress OF all who teach eternal
torment falls. therefore, upon the word
heH found In our text-in the original
Greek, 0ehennd.
What we have TO say respecting It
VIII 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 il not new TO ed.
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
| ialnly 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
BILE misunderstanding Is not only
wrecking the faith of thousands, but
dlshonoring our Crentor-blasphemln
his holy name, his holy character, by
! 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 IIinnom
That Is the Valley that In brief was
called Geh-hinnOn, the Greek OF which
Is gehenna. All of our Lords uses Of
the word gchenna stand related to
that Valley. For the sake of my lar.
ger congregation II will he worth while
for us 10 take Al glance backward mt
the history Of that Valley during many
centuries before Jesus day.
The first mention OF this Valley In
| the Bible Is found In Joshua txv, 81,
where II Is given as one OF the bOun.
daries of the tribe Of Judah, accord
Ing to the lot cast by Joshua In the
division OF the land that had come ln-
to possession Of the Israclltes. II IL
again mentioned similarly In Joshua
XVIII. H. The next reference TO this
Valley Is found In II Kings xxlii. 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 hein0us forms OF
the idolatry having been practlsed In
this Valley Of Iinnom. which had got
ten a new name, namely Topheth. His
tory tells us that the lsraelltes built
r. this Iopheth the Valley Of Hlnnom,
n great brass Image 10 the heather god
MolOch. In various places they had
groves In which n licentious form OF
worship was enacBd aud then they re-
sorted to this Valley Of Illnsom TO of-
fer sacrifice OF most revolving kind
| 10 the hanthen dpitN Sometimes IL