SACRIFICES TO THE GOD MOLOCH.
PROFESSOR A. H. SAYCE, in the Biblical World of some months ago, tells us that at the time when Israel was in the land of Canaan Babylonian culture was very prevalent there, that while Babylonian power had ceased, Babylonian civilization still remained. The remains of the Amorite cities' foundations clearly demonstrate the truth of what the spies reported to Moses, that the walls were built "up to heaven." Some of them were fourteen feet in thickness and provided with towers twenty-four feet in diameter. Underneath some of these ruins are great jars filled with the bodies of children which had been burned. These were at the "high places" in the city, showing one of the plain reasons why it was that God enjoined the destruction of the high places. It was this custom which was followed by the children of Israel, tho not to the extent that the Amorites followed it.