4 LESSON TEACHES OF IST GREAT FEMINIST Deborah, Leader of Women's Movements, a Prophetess and Emancipator LED HER PEOPLE FOR YEARS Devised and Executed Master Stroke That Won Judge's Liberty The International Sunday School les son For January 10 Is ••Deborah and Barak l>Hlvcr Israel" —Judjr. 1:4-23; 3;1*2! By William T. Kills If leaders in the modern women's! movement knew their Bibles better we should hear oftener of the (Irst feminist in history, Deborah th pro phetess and emancipator. It Is true that Miriam, the sister of Moses, broke forth into song: upon one trium phant occasion, but the next emi nent ■woman who tipures in the Bible story, Deborah, really led and inspir ed lier people over a course of years, during the troubled period of the judgres. The master stroke that won them liberty was of her devising and execution, and it was she who com posed the wonderful pean of rejoic inp which celebrated the event. The husband might as well be call ed Mr. Dehorah, for Lippidoth is merely mentioned as being the hus band of the prophetess. Was it a hard | role that he had to play in being j merely the helpmate of a public wo- ] man? Perhaps our own times will evolve a code for the man placed in this now common position. Dehorah was greater than her hus band. The work to which she was called was one which could not be done through him: for not even the wisest wife can impart force of char acter. vision and the qualities of lea dership to a man. So Deborah dared, in a period when usage prescribed se questration and a secondary place for her s«x. to translate into action her great ideals for her people. Tlic Woman Who Lead Britain had her Boadicea, France her Joan of Arc, Germany her Queen Louise. America her Lucretia Mott. Susan B. Anthony and Frances Will ord. AU down the highway of his tory we see shining occasional wo men who. when men's hearts failed or their eyes were dimmed, rose to the role of leaders and deliverers. In the great emergencies of America's pioneer days, and of the war between the States, women by the hundreds proved themselves heritors of the highest traditions of womanly hero ism. What is the most characteristic quality of womanhood, if it is not in sight, "vision, idealism and a liighloy alty? Who feels a nation's wrongs so keenly as its women? Who are the flaming pioneers of all social reforms but women? Why are they foremost in the missionary and temperance en terprise? Soul-sensitiveness eplains it. That quality made Deborah a seer and a propagandist. She had greatness and fineness of spirit. Justice and patriot ism were really master passions with her. Every wrong done to her op pressed countrymen by the proud and cruel Canaanites entered her heart as a sword. Her loyalty to Jehovah, and her zeal for him, made her great. In a dark day when the ordained eccles iastical leaders proved futile, she led her people back to God. So Deborah moved from the land of Isaachar south to that of Benjamin, where she would be free to counsel and confer. Thlsh suggests a word about the geography of the story: and present world events are newly teaching peo ple the importance of geoaraphv. The scene of the battle lies back of Mt. Carmel. that long "mountain of a thousand valleys" by the sea. where the modern city of Haifa, with its German colony, its harbor and its terminus of the Damascus Railway is now situated. The scene of the de feat of Sisera is about the same as that of the slaughter of the priests of Baal, after Elijah's dramatic contest on Mt. Carmel. To the eastward, al m»st in a line with the Lake of Gali lee, rose symmetrical Mt. Tabor, which figures in the story as the resort of Barak's army. Issachar, Deborah's home, lay directly south, but she went still further southward, almost to Jerusalem, to a spot between Bethel and Bamah to establish herself as a prophetess to whom the people couid rcscrt for counsel and inspiration. There, under the palm tree by the door of her tent, Deborah sat and re ceived her people. The picture is suggc-sUve. A proud woman, of finely chiselled features, with the reserved demeanor of a greatly burdened soul, she sat day by day and received depu tations in ever-increasing .numbers, as her reputation grew. Family strife and village quarrel were adjudicated by her. The stream of victims of Canaanitish oppression brought their woes to her. The perplexed heads of communities driven desperate by in- NERVES TREATED FREE DR. FRANKLIN HI LBS. Th. Great >p.rl»lU«. 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Slowly but in evitably the time ripened to the hour' of deliverance. The arrogance and j high-handedness of the Canaanites ■ grew worse and worse. The very na-1 tional life of Israel was threatened. All the while the alliance of the Jews grew stronger. This wonderful wo- I man bound to herself, by confidence lin her judgment and patriotism, the [natural leaders of her people, i At last the hour struck for which the patriots had prayed and prepared. Deborah sent the word to brave Ba rak. up in Kedesh-Xaphtali, to rally the ten thousand true men of Naph tali and Zebulun to Mt. Tabor, and she would by means not divulged, draw forth Sisera to battle and de feat. Right here Barak proved himself a man of first grade, for he was will ing to take second place. He agreed to the plan proposed, provided only that Deborah herself would lead the Conkey Corner » CfcrirtMs frrml. There'i nothing that would please him bet- ter, and nothing that would help him more. 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A Cowardly Cairtaln and a Cruel Woman War, our saddened hearts now real ize, Is not very different to-day from what It has always been, except that It is somewhat more deadly. The clash of man with man, in a struggle of death, is essentially the same In France and Poland to-day as it was when the host of Deborah and Barak | swept down from symmetrical Tabor upon the chariots and horsemen of Sisera in the great plain of Esdraelon below. By some providence which Is not made clear, "The Lord discomfited Sisera and all his chariots." and the Israelites were given a complete and overwhelming victory. Evidently, from the song of Deborah, the river Klshon, a thrilling stream ordinarily, overflowed its banks in a sudden storm and the chartota were engulfed or so sorely hindered that they could not fight. As for the famous captain of the Canaanitcs. Sisera proved himself somewhat less than a hero. Instead of staying by his troops to the end, and dving like a brave general, he slip ped out from the melee and sought to save his own life by ignominious flight. History is full of shameful episodes like this, of great leaders who. in a crisis, prove pusillanimous, prizing their own safety above honor and duty. Sisera's message to the youth of to-day Is to learn to die nobly, rather than to live cowardly. Had he died or been captured like ia brave soldier Sisera would have es 'caped the Ignominious end which was his, a fate like that of a wild animal. { In iiis flight, he came to a Bedouin encampment. The tents were those of a partv of neutral Kenites. The men were all absent, and the rigid etiquette of the time and the people demanded that Sisera should pass by the unprotected households. In his .unmanly terror, he committed the folly and ofTence of s«eklng to hide in the women's quarters of Heber's tent. Jael, the wife, quick of wit, re sorted to guile. She welcomed hint, fed him from the goatskin full of curdled milk, and when he fell swift ly into the sleep of utter exhaustion, she slew- him. A foul deed was Jael's. Clever commentators have tried to explain away, on the grounds of Sisera's vio lence of the desert code, and on the basis of Jaei's loyalty to Israel, her cruel and monstrous act, in driving a tent peg through the temple of the sleeping guest. We know that the Orient does not have our standards of a fair fight; I have seen men scratching, biting or kicking each other: and we also know that cruelty is commoner in the East. Neverthe less, the deed was fiendish, even if it did serve the welfare of the chosen people, and consummate the victory of Barak. Making all allowance for (the standards of the times, there are some acts that cannot be condoned; exactly as all the subtle apologists in Europe cannot explain away certain undoubted offenses against civiliza tion in the present war. The Battle Song of Victory I,ike so much of the Bible, the Song of Deborah Is best interpreted in the light of the usages of the Kast. Once, down along the Tigris river, I had put to confusion a petty Turkish official, and rnv old raftsman (I call ed him "Hamlet," because he was such a melancholy Dane) lifted up his cracked voice and in a loud and boastful recitative sang the triumph as if it had been one of Alexander's victories. That is the custom in Bible lands to-day, as for thousands of years past. Every Arab skirmish pro duces a crop of epics. Your western poet must chew a penholder for a time ere he can produce a little verse; but your Arab, with the swing and vigor and stateliness of Deborah's pfean, will improvise his poetry for every occasion. Every village and tribe has its poet laureate whose efficiency, relatively, is greater than that of Bri tain's. A stately, noble song was that of Deborah, and worthy of close study. In it she not only sounded the note of triumph, and exulted in the fall of the foe, and rehearsed the events of the battle, and derided the craven Israelites who had skulked at home in the hour of need, but she also, and chiefly, set forth the majesty and might of Jehovah, as the real victor. The poem, like all true poetry, pene trated straightway to the heart of the matter, and in lofty strain, exalt ed the (lod who gave the victory. Aside from its inherent interest, this great conquest over the Canaanites helped determine the solidarity of the Hebrew people. The event was a turning point in the history of Israel. Deborah stands, a regal figure, at a crossroads in the life of her nation; and she upholds and represents the twin truths of patriotism and rell giom FEEL YOUNG! It's Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets For You! Beware of the habit of constipation. It develops from Just a few constipated days, unless you take yourself In hand. 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