6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 27 “i, 1899 A VOW OF JEPHTHAH It Is Cited as a Warning Against Parental Heedlessness. Dr, Protest the of Talmage Against Lodges a the Sacrifice of Younug on the Altar Worldly Ambition, Washington, April 16 In Dr dodges a protest against the parental ambition (Copyright, 158090.) sermon to-day Falmagoe his heedlessness and worldly which are threatening the sacrifice of many American children; text, Judges 11:36: “My father, if thou has opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me ac cording to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth.” Jephthah was a freebooter. Early turned out from a home where he ought to have been cared for, he with rough men and went forth to earn he cousorted his living as best could. In those times it was considered right for a man to go out on independent military ex peditions. Jephthah was a good man according te the light of his dark age, but through a wandering and a preda tory life he became reckless and prec ipt tate. The grace of God ' heart, but temperament, the Ammonite driven out of their country, so the} Jephthah, asl mander-in-ch might h when never reverses his natural he Israelites wanted \L* ad no use for me you are ir uble you want nn but he did not say that mand of the army, the Ammoni tell the country, and, sends messeng them to getting no fav marshals his tro [ YOacats ravie res pe nse, ( i 51 Defore going makes a very Lord will give him on home, comes out of his doorway | in sacrifice battle opens the ous to solemn war vow the vic return his whats as a burnt It edges of dangers, no uslim! was no skirmishir on 0 ing of batteries C8 AWAY, the hurling of men on the point and spears the ground could no more drink the blood and the horses reared te leap over the pile of two ml but of swords until bodies of the slain. In those old times opposing forces would fight until their swords were broken and then each one would throttle his man until they both fell, teeth to teeth, grip to grip, death stare to death stare, until the plain was one tumbled corpses from which the last trace of manhood had been dashed out. Jephthah wins the Twenty cities lay captured at his feet. Sound the victory all through the mountains of Gilead. Let the trumpeters call up the survivors. Homeward to your wives and children. Homeward with your glittering treasures. Homeward to have the applause of an admiring nation Build triumphal arches. Swing out flags all over Mizpah. Open all your doors to receive the captured treasures Through every hall spread the banquet Pile up the viands. Fill high the tank The nation is redeem the iz uted and the nati i mass of day args vaders are ro nal hon or is vindicats Huzza fc Jephthah, advances tudes, bu popu made a from vic ame out f the d that offering, he h Ace us battle MOTW shot ® Racrit as his AL Xi the door. | wonder what what brace of doves, wi upon the figes of the bum Oh, horrors! blanches his cheek heart. His daughter, his only child, rushesout the deorway t« Paleness Desj » throw herself in her father's arms an him wounds 1 shower upen more kisses than there were breast or dents on his ’ on his shield. All the ishes. Holding back th reast an the trium;j al ng "1 heaving b fair of inexting | with choked utterance he says: AY stark on back fYyes thet 0 iaughter, my only e life of nn ife t hearts OO Ked ti glory « shield vanished in the pre valor of that girl. There may have tremor of the lip, as a rose leaf bies in the so wh of the south there may have been the starting of a tear like a raindrop shaken from the anther of a water lly. But with a self- merifice that man may not reach and only woman's heart can compass she surrenders herself to fire and to death Ehe eries out In the words of my text, “My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do unto me what. soever hath proceeded from thy mouth.” She bows to the knife, and the blood, which so often at the father's voice had rushed to the crimson cheek, smokes in the fires of the burnt offering. No one can tell us hor name. There is no need that we know her name. The garlands that Mizpah twisted for Jephthak the warrior have gone into the dust, bas all ages are twistiog this girl's shaplet, It is well that her name came not to us, for no one can wear it. They may take the name of Deborah or Abigail or Miriam, but no one in all the ages shall have the title of this daughter of sacri. flee, Of course this offering was not pleas ing to she Lord, especially a4 a pro vision was made in the law for such a contingency, and Jephthah might have redeemed his daughter by the payment of 30 sheckles of silver. But before you hurl your denunciations at Jephthah's trem wind | cruelty remember that in olden times, when vows were made, men thought they must execute them, perform them, whether they were wicked or good. There were two wrong things about Jephthah's vow. First, he ought never to have made it. Next, having made it, it were better broken than kept, But | do not take on pretentious alrs and say: | the scepter, and the “I could net have done as Jephthah did.” If in former days you had been standing on the banks of the Ganges born in India, you your children to It is not because better, but have more Gospel light. Now | very this question when I tell you thas the and you had been might have thrown the crocodiles naturally we we any because we ure of make priv tical sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter wos a type of the physical, mental and spirit- of 1 this There are parents all unwitting- ual sacrifice L000 children day ly bringing to bear upon their children a class of influences which will as cer tainly ruin them as knife and torch de stroyed Jephthah's daughter. While 1 speak, the whole nation, without emo tion and without shame, looks upon the stupendous sacrifice In st pla the system of the fir ce, I remark that m education in our i When children and two or three hours for school next much time they is 4 system of sacrifice spend six or seven hours in school n must ] spend in the how nshine and fresh air rence f th ntry a hu scrabblin Pe rishes Are roany laughter hat there h schools in the country to-day which are preparing tens of thousands of invalid so that e the child's and women for the future in many places, by the tim education is finished the child is fin ished! In many places, in many of the country, there are large priations for everything else and cl mes ful appropriations, but as soon appropriation is to be made for the cational or moral interests of the ci we are struck through with an econ the death of us In my parish in Philadelphia a little child was so pushed at school that she thrown a fever, and in her dying delirium, all night long, she was tryigg to recite the multiplication ta that is well-nigh Was into my boyhood I remember that in lad ble In our class at school there was one who kuew more than all of us put gether if fast in our arit} Wh he was ain we were metic, he extricated us en we ats nn far t ste lino up for the spelling head of t} : | } PARR is father's h ich maltreat: to fight the battle iren may get along 1 take care of them, 1 alas old or dead gh the wrong systen : hiness or force of fthemeelves' Be care ake the child's head ache I hear a great « tht and CO} ghia, and God heart fl ) : itter on ack nn rights "3 that wl ghta would rise 1 The chi rights! ce their But it no saang they a fascination and oment 1 about the styles of education speaking, but it is only laughter at the ment of sacrifice Would to Jephthah's daughter! i t) were Grol ere only one Again, there are many parents who are sacrificing their ch#tdren wrong system of diseipline—100 great rigor or wo great leniency. There are children in families who rule the house hold. The high ehair in which the in fant wits is the throne, and the rattle is other children make up the parliament where father and mother have no vote! Such ehil- dren some up to be miscreants. There is no chasee in this world for a ehild that has never learned to mind. Such people become the botheration of the church of God and the pest of the world Children that do not learn to obey hn man authority are unwilling to learn to obey divine authority. Ch#dren will net respect parents whose authority they do not respect. Who are these young men that swagger through the with | street with thelr thumbs in their vest talking about their father as “the old man,” “the governor,” “the squire,” | “the old chap,” or their mother an “the | od woman?" | youth, in childhood, never learned to They are those who in respect authority, El, baving heard that his sons had died in thelr wicked ness, fell over backward and broke his | the house of God today | elothed as you are and well fed | sehosls and churches? neek and died. Well he might! What { Ie life to a father whose sons are de- bauched? The dust of the valley is pleasant to his taste, and the driving rains that drip through the roof of the sepuicher aro sweeter than the wines of Helbon, There must be harmony between the father's government and the mother's government. The father will be te mpt- "Wie mother will Her tenderness will overcome her. Her volee Woo litte softer; her hand seen fitved to pull out a shorn and sc pang. the mother or dissolve ed to wo great rigor be tempted to too great leniency batter wothe a Children wanting anything from I hey Lope to her with tears. Dut the mo must not interfere, must hour supremacy a child's tempor. history of d whether the | the child must the chidd w the assertion of | the wsubjugnt There some every « hild an not coax ofY, on the ntal of iin the hen it rents shall rule I'hat is the If the child triumphs in that hour, then he will some day make you h It is ve witnessed it not beg for for and Come hour is test or shall I N crueial hour. ero on horrible scene—I a mether come to old » Shivering with terror in the pres- a sony her the igh too great rigor iency. The heavens and filled with the groan of the matter, seck 1, O father, Om portant other! thousands ar the daughters of Ar erificed to worldliness. They 1 tens Are to be in sympathy with all the They are in- the hollownes { nto all f what fash she had rhter and ¢ corner of society, the bh 1. an idler and a sot, the wife a ge, a slave and a Ah, #; m Jephthah on this down! I lift up my volee against the sacri fice of children I look out of my dow on a Sabbath. and I see a group of children sacrifie fro all ire your denunciations d them martyr # head and exper wholesale modern win unwashed, Who Who prays for them? them one kind word? uncombed, un caren for them? Who utters to When the city missionary, passing along the park in New York, saw a ragged lad and heard him swearing, he said to him “My son, stop swearing! Youought to go to You ought to You ought to be a Christian.” Christianized be good | The lad looked in his face and sald “Ab! It Is easy for you to talk, well fut we chaps hain't got no chanee.” Who lifts them to the altar for baptism? | Who goes forth to snatch them up from | erime and death and woe? Who today will go forth and bring them into No: heap them up, great piles of rags and wretchedness and filth, Put underneath them the | fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put | on more fagots, and, while we sit In the churches with folded arms and In difference, crime and disease and death will go on with the agonizing sacrifice, Love of trees and plants is safe; you do not run risks in your affections Alex Bmith, 4 Divine of | erica | Are A SOCIETY GIRL. Miss Thornby was a veritable butter. fly (sp every one sald), with a fortune at the command of her own capricious fancy, Judson had never seen her, but he had heard of her, for the humble cottage that treasured all he had in the world belonged to her, The usual kindly light had long since died out of Judson's and the sparkle that ever came from them glanced from a slle tear, The yet over, but the 4 funds were exhausted, work to be had; help; and three valid ife to cure One the stove in. Juson wife I'h eyes, only winter was not commissioners There to poor WAS no to for no one look tiny babes and for had ju Aor { y GOOr ant Pp looked away from met in = last stick ith thinki 1d, John,” said of ng of it his wif verse. It Was and they were be “Never faint, broken v i come gruff w be 1d for you." Was overwhelmed with grate He did not know how the A ! knew by Mise Af manner that it was m out of his trouble Miss Thornby was scarcely conscious of having conferred a favor, the effort had been so slight, until she saw the man's trembling hand as he took the paper from her, and listened to his tearful voice as he thanked her again and again Judson went hurriedly street in the effort electric light the number Judsor ful surprise check rea Thornby's gener he enough to help hi down the to reach the first Then he stopped to read on the check. He read it once, and then looked closely and care fully at it again. His heart gave a» sudden bound. There was no mistake it read “one hundred dollars Judson's angry thoughts of a few moments before flashed over him and struck him to the heart. His eyes filled with God bless her.” sald he prayerfully she has saved me from something worse than death" and so she had, for Judson had twade up hie mind not to let his little ones live to suffer starvation. tears A German Indastry, The manufacture of straw Is one of the most important industries of Ger. many, giving thousands means of sup. port. | | HUMORS OF DIVORCE, Bome Heasons for Untying the Marriage Knot Are Ludicreus, Although Is is happily not possible in every country to dissolve the war ringe tie because a husband has an aversion to soup or becunuse a wife has fa tongue more petive than her fingers there Is a ludicrous facility in many lands for getting rid of an undesirable wife or husband In Greece a wife position, must propriety and Or race meeting friend thout he mn nd io n very pintain the } if sie goes to the or even ber hus! her ay there und | be dines wit muds san back to Le HO Was when a app f 0 5 . Why Fishes Are 5) M ' ppery Ter pper) Pm riness exuded the gre erent perament Msapnearine | islands in Ches by fix The ented orm in China no regular standard nese mile may be an English mile Todinn Tu ome Tar, [he socome tax 12 India is levied on cn of £105 end upward, and ane man la 700 comes with. "ik : Spier, «lik spider has Le ounces, juarters, according | all Sick ali we Many persons have their good day and their bad day. Others are about half sick all the time. They have headache, backache, and are restless and nervous. Food does not taste good, and the digestion is poor; the skin is dry and sallow and disfigured with pimples eruptions; sleep brings no rest and work is a burden, What is the cause of all this? Impure blood. And the remedy? or IroOwsy wre Bb Write fo our Doctor. ex sive pervie THE PENNA, STATE COLLEGE By ATED in one of the most beautiful ane health! pot the A liegheny Region both sexes expenses very Undenominat Tultion free ; Board low LEADING DEPARTMENTS of STUDY Il. AGRICULTURE and AGRICULTURF CHEMISTRY 2 BIOLOGY 4. BOTANY and HORTICUIL CHEMISTRY CIVIL ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING bf. {MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MINING ENGINEERING 6. HISTORY and POLITICAL SCIENCR INDUSTRIAL AKT AND DESIGN LANGUAGE and LITERATURE Spanish and Italia pions German and Eng MATHEMATICS a MECHANICAL na and (Orrwer pen other Latin French required i ASTRONOMY ARTS; combining shop RAL SCIENCE NCE theoretical and prac sl M FREFPARATORY DEPARTMENT tw 0. Regular other in president § . | 3 | 3 3 2 ino L 'SONIQTING MUVI ¥N0X ‘sum JHNSNI L.NOa SEEEEEE EEE Es EE EEwws 13UOSOJ(« [HAOOH LXVIUYH hss | Ll ARMAN HOUNE, High Street. opposite the Court House Entirely new New Purniture, Steam Heat Kiectrie Liglt, and all the modern improve ments © & CC. BGAEMAN } Froprietors BOARDING AND LODGING. No. 117 East Hicn STREET. I wish to announce to the public that I have located at the above address, and am prepared to furnish Lodging and | Boarding. Single meals, by the day or | week, as desired. Rates: Meals 20 | cents ; 60 cents per day ; $3.50 per week x 20 I. S. BICKLE, Opposite County Jail, Bellefonte, Pa Garman’s Empire House, MAIN STREET, TYRONE, PA. AL. 8. GARMAN, Proprietor. Everything new, clean and in. viting. Special pains will be taken to entertain Centre county peopl when traveling in that section,
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