national existence. This point is too vital to be passed without careful attention. In Lev. 18 we meet with a series of crimes against moral purity――violations of the seventh commandment――culminating in sodomy and bestiality; and classed with these is the burning of children in the worship of Moloch (v. 21). Then God says――“Defile not yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you, and _the land is defiled_; therefore do I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.”――――The same sentiments are repeated (vs. 26–30). Unnatural lusts had sunk both men and women not only down to a level with beasts, but even below them. Idolatry had so far quenched the sweet humanities from the parental heart that fathers and mothers could burn their own sons and daughters to Moloch. These horrible, unnatural crimes were not only an outrage against the heart of God the Great Father; but, as he forcibly puts it, they defiled the very land itself. The earth was nauseated with these abominations and spued out such inhabitants. God’s fair and much abused world could bear them no longer. Nature herself lifted her voice of protest against such wickedness; or, as the strong figure suggests, her stomach sickened even to nausea over such unnatural lusts and such a torturing death of innocent sons and daughters. What could a holy and righteous God do with such a people but wipe them out of existence and wash the land they had defiled clean of such pollutions?――――Lev. 20 reiterates substantially the same list of abominations against which God warns his people;――“Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, _spue you not out_. And ye shall not walk in the manner of the nations which I cast out before you; for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them” (vs. 22, 23).――――Perfectly definite and explicit is the repetition of the same point in Deut. 12: 30, 31. When the Lord shall have cut off the Canaanites before thee, be not snared into their ways; inquire not after their gods and ways of worship:――“Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God, for every abomination to the Lord which he hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burnt in the fire to their gods.” No fact could be more telling; none more damning. A people so given up to devil-worship as to burn their own offspring at his supposed behest, must be too debased and corrupt to live! The earth itself cries out against them, demanding their utter extirpation! A more full description of the varieties and forms of the devil-worship and fellowship common among the Canaanites may be seen in Deut. 18: 9–14, to which it must suffice to refer the reader.