SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE OF
READY TO WEAR GOODS
The clearance of all house dresses and shirtwaists will begin tomorrow. As we
always keep our stock new and fresh we will not carry any
"Will cut the price in order to get rid of it, in some cases to less than half the original
Value. The goods are all new this season and there is nothing more seasonable now.
There is a good range of sizes in the shirtwaists, but you should come early, for if you
don't your size may be gone, as they will not last at these prices. Come in and see the
house dresses, as that is the
offering you.
The Shirtwaists will be divided into "The House Dresses are all fine values,
4 lots. These values are less than half and are especially seasonable. Following
the original selling price: 3 tne original selling price and the sale
63c, 75c, $1.38, Sl,90 p'""!1-29
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EAGLES FLY TO THE
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Take Their Families to Home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Vallery and
, Enjoy Their Day's Outing.
Yesterday was ICagles' day at
the pleasant farm home of Mr.
and Mrs. "Coon" 11. Vallery, on
the Four Milo crock, west of
Hattsinoutli. . The day was an
ideal one, neither too warm nor
too cool for a day's online, and in
the shade, of the huge spreading
box elder trees the Eagles and
Iheir families or sweethearts
certainly enjoyed a pleasant. time.
There were over 1(10 in attend
ance, all Kaglcs, their (food wives
hnd the numerous little Eagles.
Every rarrynll was loaded to its
fullest capacity, some carrying
nearly twenty-five people, also n
large number in privnte convey
ances. As (lie cards of invitation
stated that, each member was ex
pected lo bring a basket tilled
numerous names, racing and
the noon hour arrived there was
evidence that, this portion of the
program had been carried out in
grand style. Had there been a
prize offered for the best, basket
the ladies could nut, have prepared
a more delicious meat. Large
freezers were filled with ice
Cream, plenty of lemonade and
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refreshments of all kinds for the
inner soul.
After dinner tbe program of
entertainment consisted of
nu numerous games, racing and
resting in the shade of the large
trees. Anton Koubek proved the
swiftest winged lightweight Eagle
and O. P. Monroe in the free-for-all
corpulent race, with J. E. Mc
Daniel lighting as a close second.
This race was decided after the
second heat, the first being a tie.
In this manner they defeated the
Journal man for first honors, he
not being in good condition for
the second heat.
After supper the merry party
pulled slakes and started for
home, extending their hearty
thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Vallery
for the many kindnesses shown
them upon this and numerous
other occasions.
At the Christian Church.
At the Christian church last
evening Evangelist. Wilkinson
preached on the subject of
"I'aradise, Heaven and Hell." Miss
Daniels, a special singer, sang
the "Ninety and Nine," an illus
trated solo, with pleasing effect.
Hev. Wilkinson preached a strong
sermon, which deeply interest"!
l.-s listeners. The services wiM
c.i.iliiiue through the week.
Mrs. Philip Keil and children,
Clarence and Viola, were Omaha
passengers on the morning train
today.
We are busy this week
invoicing, preparatory to
moving into our new room,
where we will open up
one of the largest and most
complete lines of new and
up-to-date goods ever dis
played in Plattsmouth.
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of this merchandise over, so
Corner Sixth and Main Streets.
Law Has Changed.
The law governing the election
of police courts was changed at
the last term of the legislature,
and was passed with an emerg
ency clause and took effect April
8th, 1911. The oMice is a district
olllce, the, legislature having the
power under the constitution to
lix the limits of the district, and
in case of a city with the popula
tion of our own, the district is the
city and three miles of territory
surrounding the corporate limits.
The last legislature, concerning
(lie election of such officer, en
acted the following: "The elec
tion of a police magistrate filial!
take place at the next general
election to bo held on Tuesday,
Miuceeeding the llrst Monday of
November, 191 1, and on every
alternate year thereafter, and the
term of office of police magis
tiale shall begin on the first
Thursday after the llrst Tuesday
ir. January next, succeeding his
election, and he shall continue in
olllce until his successor shall he
elected and qualified." The, salary
of (he police magislrate in cities
having less than 5,000 population
shall be the fees of the o(Uch and
he shall charge the same fees a
justice of the peace may charge
for similar service.
O. C. Dovey, wife and daughter,
Miss Claire, were Omaha travelers
on the morning train today, where
business matters demanded their
rllenlion.
GEHENNA FIRE A
FIGURE OF SPEECH
Symbolizes the Second Death.
A Total Extinction,
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Patter Russell Leads an Exploration
Party of Toronto Bible Students In a
Critical Investigation of "Gehenna."
Stripped of Superstitious Accretions,
He Declares It "the Second Death."
Toronto, Can.,
July 10th. Pastor
Russell delivered
three addresses
here today under
the auspices of the
international Bi
ble Students Asso
ciation." By re
quest two of his ad
dresses were more
particularly to the
Hebrews, on "Zi
onism In Prophe
cy." Another was
specially to Bible Students, and it we
report Ills text was. "Where their
worm dieth not and the tire Is not
quenched" (Mark ix, 44). The speaker
said:
There ore other and much more beau
tiful topics than the one I have chosen
for this occasion. Nevertheless, "Hand
some is Uiat handsome does." This
text has stood In tbe way of God's
people for centuries, and still continues
In the way of many of them. To such
It proves the Almighty Creator to be a
most unkind one, a most un-Fatherly
one, view the matter as we will. Some
ay, lovelessly and lllogically, that God
provided from before the foundation
of the world a great gchenna of fire.
torture, suffering, and that all man
kind were doomed on account of father
Adam's transgression, but that through
Jesus' death arrangement was made
by which the small number who walk
In Ills footsteps In the "narrow way"
may escape this awful eternity.
Others say, not so; God Is lo1?,
these unquenchable fires and Immortal
worms are matters of necessity which
His love cannot overcome, because, by
ome slip of unwisdom In the begin
ning, or by some lack of power since,
the Almighty Is unable to do better
than to save the mere handful and to
allow the great mass of mankind to
Buffer endless torture In the tire that
never shall lie quenched, and where
the worm will never die.
The Great Teacher Misunderstood.
These words from tbo Hps of our
Master, the Great Teacher, have been
grievously misunderstood. The teach
ing of our Protestant childhood was
to the effect that ouly tbe saintly elect
would go to heaven and that others
would net only lose heaven, but gain
an eternal .life In torment Thus our
text was understood to portray what
practically the whole world of man
kind would be compelled to endure.
This bell was pictured to our child
hood minds from outside the Bible as
heated to a white heat. If we ex
pressed wonder or surprise that any
creature could endure such conditions
so long the answer was that God
would exercise his omnipotent power
to make us fire-proof ami paln-scnsltlve.
Some theologians of the Thomas a
Kempls school of thought went so far
as to picture the poor creatures In
their sufferings and to show that the
heat would form a kind of nn asbestos
covering which would shield them
from a measure of Its intensity. But
those deluded theologians' proceeded
to explain that these outer coverings
would crack and shell off every little
while, leaving the poor victim freshly
tender that his suffering might be the
more Intense.
Of course, these theologians of tbo
past had their dltllculty In dealing
with the worms. They could imagine
devils who would oversee the torture
as being made Immune to pain by the
chief torturer, the Almighty God. But
Just how to imagine the worms get
ting along In so great a heat and how
they would lu any wise Increase the
torture of the poor sufferers was to
many a perplexity. But patient
thoughtfulness along these cruel and
devilish lines enabled some to formu
late the theory that the worms would
bo fiery ones, living in fire, delighting
In Arc worms that would bore through
the Incrustations and add still fur
ther to the horrible sufferings of the
world of mankind.
Was This What Jesua Meant!
Did the Great Teacher Intend that
such conclusions should be drawn
from Ills language? And did lie stop
short of the description from reasons
of sympathy or modesty or shame? Is
this the general teaching of God's
Word or has a great and terrible mis
take bo made? And have we mlstak
en a figure of speech and treated it a
literal? We erred. We misunderstood.
The Great Teacher who relinked Ills
disciples, James and John, when they
desired to call fire from heaven upon
the City of Samaria, because the peo
ple thereof refused to sell them food
for the Master-the sympathetic One
who s:iUl to them. "Ye know not what
manner of spirit ye lire of; the Son of
man came not to destroy men's lives,
but to save them" could that Son of
man In nny wise Intend to tell us that
our great Heavenly Father had less
of the spin! of love and righteousness
than the tvi Impetuous disciples?
Ptd He mem to Intimate that while
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the dlsrlnlps m'bt tiifwtoonsly hare
be-n rilll-ig lo destroy the earthly life
of the Samaritans, the Heavenly Fa
ther, of Mill more demoniacal dispo
sition, would treat practically all man
kind ten million times worse than that
and use Divine Power to ull eternity
to perpetuate th- sufferings or His
earth'y i ron .ires, which His own Word
declares were born lu sin. shapeu In
Iniquity. In sin did their mothers con
ceive them earthly creatures, too,
whose environment was unfavorable
and whose Adversary, the Devil, God
neither destroyed nor bound?
"Ge'hinnom'' "Gehenna" Hell.
As we have heretofore seen, the only
Hebrew word translated hell, from
Genesis to Malacbl. Is sAcol, which Is
Indiscriminately translated grave, pit
and hrll In our Common Version of
the English Bible the greater number
of times prare -Its proper translation
Its Greek eipilxalent in the New Testa
ment, we have seen, Is had t, which
likewise is Indiscriminately translated
grate and hell, but should always be
rendered pravt. We repeat again that
no scholar In the world will claim that
there Is the slightest thought of life
or suffering or Joy connected with these
words.
The Scripture? distinctly declare that
"there is neither wisdom, nor device,
nor knowledge lu ilieol" to which all,
both good and bad, go at death, and
where they remain until the resurrec
tion. In the New Testament the word
tartarvn occurs once ouly and is mis
translated hell, whereas It should be
rendered our earth' atmosphere. It has
no reference to humanity in any way.
but to the fallen angels. The Apostle
says that as a punishment "God cast
them down to tartams" and they are
"reserved lu chains of darkness until
the Judgment of the great Day."
But today we will examine the fourth
and last word translated hill In our
common English Bible. This word In
the Greek is gchenna. It occurs ht
twelve times, as follows: Matthew v,
22, 29. 30; x, 18; xvlli. 0; xxlil 15. 33:
Mark lx. 43. 45, 47; Luke ill, 5; James
ill. C One of the occurrences Is In con
nection with our text today. The ques
tion Is, To what does this word gchenna
refer? Is it a name for Purgatory?
Or a name for a still worse place of
unending torture, as our Protestant
creeds declare? We answer. No. II
Is a figure of speech used to symbolize
tbe Second Death the death from
which there will be no resurrection,
no resuscitation the everlasting de
struction mentioned by St Paul, and
of which St. Peter says that they
which experience It perish like the
brute beast (II Thessalonlans 1, 0; II Pe
ter 11, 12). This Is very plainly stated lu
Revelation xx, 14, where of this "lake
of fire" It Is declared, "this is the Sec
ond Death."
The Valley of Hinnom Tophet.
The Greek word gchenna Is the syn
onym for the Hebrew word Gr-hinnom,
which means "The valley of Hin
nom." This valley Is repeatedly men
tioned in the Bible. It was owned by
a family named Hinnom. The first
reference to It Is lu Joshua xv, 8.
Looking at any Bible map of tbe city
of Jerusalem, the valley will be seen
to the southwest of the city wall At
a time when the Israelites -became
sadly involved In Idolatry, this valley
was used m n sacred place. An Image
of the heathen god, Moloch, made of
brass, and hollow, was erected. It
was so constructed that the chair,
which was a part of the image, con
stituted a furnace tired from the rear,
and the html of the image was the
top of u Hue.
The image held out Its arms as
though to receive something and,
healed red iiot by the (ire, was u re
ceptacle lu whhh deluded Israelite:
placed their chlldieu as sacrifices,
while trumpets were blowu, drums
beaten and the people shouted, stilling
the cries of the tortured Infants (It
Kings xxlil, 10). When the good King
Joslah came to the throne all (his Idol
atry was abolished and the propel
worship of God in the temple was re
sumed. Then, lest the people should
ever ngalu resort to such atrocious
customs, the valley was desecrated.
It became a valley of abomination.
It was ustd as a (lumping place for
tbe filth of Jerusalem. Dead dogs and
dead cats .veto thrown there, and It
is claimed that some of the vile crim
inals, after execution, were thrown
therein Instead of being given burial
to typically Illustrate that there is no
future life for mien obnoxious bclngs
that they will be refuse.
Tbe valley of Hinnom is now filled
up uud an orchard grows there; but
originally It was quite deep. The car
casses of animals were thrown there
Intended for ties' ruction, the worms
feeding upon them. No one sought to
hinder the worms from making a com
plete destruction In the bottom of
the valley tires were kindled for the
consumption of the waste debris, aud
brimstone was added that the fumes
of it might destroy any germs of dis
ease. No one thought of quenching
that lire; it was one that was desired.
This was the g henna of our Lord's
day. He use It la a figurative or
pictorial pfisc us illustrating the Sec
Olid Death, which will be the portion
of ull wllfi I sinners. He used It also
symbolically, lu connection with other
8,vmhols, In the hook of Revelation,
where as already seen He explains It
to mean the S"coud Death.
The worms f thai valley were no
more Imimrtul than any other worms
or maggots and the fires euMudled
there are not burning now. This ex
pression, "Whew their worm dieth not
and the Ilr- l not cpiciiohed." merely
signifies I'i'U the destruction of 'lie
class repre-ented would le coinpV'v.
that nnthittf would Interfere !o save
them from destruction. Aliunde death
will bo destroyed, ns the Scriptures de-
i dare. Christ died that He might have
the rightful authority to destroy Adam-
1 1c de.oth and n?lTt H of Adam's rare-
who will accept His favor back to a I
that was lost in Adam, aud redeemed
at Calvary. But tha Second Death n
a friend to Gd and to all who lo.t
righteousness, since It will utterly ai 1
forever destroy such as have love or
sympathy for sin and refuse to re
obedient to the Divine will after fi:!t
enlightenment
The Antitypical "Gehenna." i
As the earthly Jerusalem was a fL'
ure of ilit- Jerusalem from above, the
heavenly Jerusalem, the Kingdom of
God that is lo be established in ail
ttie earlii. so gehenna and its "fire" and
'worms" prefigured the destruction of
the Second Death upon every wilful
sinner, during or shortly after tbe ter
mination of Christ's Mediatorial King
dom and reign and the delivery of the
Kingdom back to God, with righteous
Bess fully established.
As the New Jerusalem will not be a
literal city, with literal streets of gold
and gates of pearls and walls of jew
els, neither the valley of Hinnom nor
the lake of fire outside the city of
Jerusalem will be literal both are
symbolical The one represents har
mony with God, the Divine blessing aud
everlasting life; the other represents
separation from God, everlasting d-i-structlon,
the Second Death.
Fire is never used as a symbol of
preservation, far from it It is alwa.vj
a symbol of destruction. The addi
tion of brimstone Intensifies the ligur,
because burning brimstone is one of
the most deadly Influences known ia
the world. It Is uot ouly deadly to
humanity and the larger animals b it
also to insects and microbes and every
thing that has life.
An Old Testament Reference.
This same lesson of the destructi a
of wilful transgressors, as represented
in the destructlveness of the valley of
Hinnom (Gehenna), is furnished by the
Prophet Isaiah tlxvl, 22-24). A famil
iar sight in Isaiah's day was the lit
eral valley of Hinnom. used as a figure
by tbe Holy Spirit speaking through
him. pointing to the antitype and tell
ing of the New Heavens and New
Earth the new religious and secular
organizations of mankind which wilt
be accomplished by Messiah's reign
and that then evil doers shall not es
cape but shall be completely, utterly
destroyed. "They shall go forth and
look upon tbe carcasses of the men
who have transgressed against Me, for
their worm shall not die, neither shall
their fire be quenched; and they shall
be an abhorrence unto all flesh." Noth
ing Is said about looking at living be
ings suffering torture, nor is this the
thought God never approved of tor
ture, but always condemned It A car
cass is a dead body.
How glad we should be to realize
that God's great Plnn will not include
a great torture chamber containing
countless myriads of nis creatures but.
as the Scriptures declare, "Every crea
ture In heaven and In earth and nndcr
the earth will he heard saying. Praise
and glory and honor and dominion and
might be unto ill in that sitteth upon
the throne and unto the Lamb forever"-
Let Honesty and Truth Prevail.
naving demonstrated that neither
the Bible nor reason offers the slight
est support to the doctrine that eter
nal torment is the penalty for sin, w
note-the fact that the various church
creeds, and confessions, and hymn
books, and theological treatises, arc its
only supports; aud that under the In
creasing light of our day, aud the con
sequent emancipation of reason, belief
in this horrible, fiendish doctrine of the
Dark Ages is fast dying out But alus!
this Is not because Christian people
generally are zealous for the truth of
God's Word and for His character, and
willing to destroy their grim eroeil
idols. Ah no! they still bow before
their admitted falsities; they still
pledge themselves to their defense, and
spend time and money for their. sup
port, though nt heart ashamed of them,,
and privately denying them.
The general influence of all this I
to cause tho honest-hearted of the
world to despise Christianity and the
Bible; nnd to make hypocrites and
seml-lnfldels of nominal Christians.
Because the nominal church clings to
this old blasphemy, and falsely pre
sents fts own error as the teaching of
the Bible, the Word of God. though
still nominally reverenced, Is being
practically repudiated. Thus the Bible
the great anchor of truth nnd liberty.
Is being cut loos from by the very
ones who. if not deceived regarding
Its teachings, would bo held and bless
ed by It.
The general effect, not far distant
will be, first open Infidelity, then an
archy. For much, very much of this,
lukewarm Christians, both In pulpits
and ews. who know better, are re
sponsible. Many such are willing to
compromise the truth, to Blunder God's
character, and to stultify and deceive
themselves, for the sake of peace, or
ease, or present earthly advantage.
And any minister, who, by uttering a
word for an unpopular truth, will risk
the loss of Ids stipend nnd his reputa
tion for Mng "established" ?n the beg
ot error. U considered a bold mau.
even though he lgnomlnlousty with
hold his name from his published pro
tests. If professed Christians would he
honest with themselves and true to
God, they would soon learn that "their
fear toward God Is taught by the pre
cepts of men" (Isaiah xxlx, 13). If all
would decide to let God be true,
though It should prove every man i
liar (I'om.ins III, 4), and show all ha-Si.-.P
cecils to be Imperfect and mis
leading, there would le a great creed
smashing work done very shortly.
Then the I'.IMe would be studied and
appreciated as never before; and Its
testimony that the wages of sin Is
denth (extinction), would be recognized
as a "J:t recompense of reward."