Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-30
TIE wISDon OF CANCELLATION.


After Solomon the wise King OF Israel
had died, all Israel went TO S5echem to
make his son Rshoboam King. And
Jsroboam and ell the congregation Of
Israel said to Rehoboam, Thy father
made our yoke grievous; now therefore
make thou the grievous service o. thy
father, and his heavy yoke which he put
upon Us, ligAter, and we viii serve
thee"
RehUboam consulted with the old men
that stood before Solomon his father, and
these said to him: "If thsu wilt be a
servant unto this people this day, and
will serve them and answer them and
speak good words unto them, then they
will be thy servants for ever"
But be forsOok their counsel, and con-
suited with the young men who had
grown up with himself, and upon their
advice replied roughly to Jeroboam and
all the people, saying, My father made
your yoke heavy, and will add TO your
yoke: my father chsstised you with
whips; but I will chsstise you with
scorpions"
And sll Israel said, "What portion
have we in David ? Neither inheritance
in the son Of Jesse. To your tents, o
Israel! Now see to thine own house,
David - And so Israel departed unto
their tents, and made Jeroboam King,
and none followed the house Of David,
but the tribes Of Judah and Benjamin.
The Kingdom OF Solomon is the type
Of an united nation, ruled by wise legis-
lstioD. II became upon bis death the
type Of every kingdom and people that
permits itself TO be rent asunder by the
rivalries Of ambition, conflicting claims
TO the possession Of the crown, the AMI
TDOsities and follies Of those who imagine
themselves statesmen, when scarcely ao-
prentices to the trade, and whom the
people generally delight to honor, and
prefer to place in power. 1t is still more
peculiarly the type, to US, of people
alienated by harsh aud severe measures.
by insults and degradations, and mill
tary dsspotism, and deprivation of all
the rights Of freemen. Divided into the
two Kingdoms Of Judah and Israel, con-
tinually wraDgling with each other, and
always embroiled with the neighboripe
nations, and the restless tribes that
shared Palestine with them, they wasted
and exhausted their strength and re-
sources in wars, and were in succession
destroyed by the Kings of Assyria. The
snnihilstion Of Israel, as a monarchy
and people, was complete. The whole
OF the Ten Tribes were expatriated. and
colonies OF barbarians planted in their
country; and it is TO this day completely
unknown what became Of the Ten Tribes
judah and Benjamin continued to
maintain a frecarious existence, In q
feeble kingdom occupying a narrow ter
ritory, with a powerful kingdom on
either side, Egypt and Assyria, to each
Of which is was tributary In turn, pay.
ing the price Of safety even with the
gold torn from the doors and pillars OF
the temple, aud fighting as the tributary
ally "a OAN 1eeA4A7t AhC RlIGts ~ KEQe-
raj they worshipped the false Coos Of the
neighboring tribes, until, wearied by
their bad faith and frequent rsvolts, the
Assyfiac King destroyed Jerusalem and
the Temple, and drove most Of the peo-
pie as captives into the BabylOnian do
Tninions.
II is ptsgnsnt lesson; but in matters
Of nationes concern, mankind seem
never 70 heed such lessons, and to learn
nothing in the school Of experience. The
Temple and the Holy City are sym ols
Of that political and civil liberty which
Judah and Israel lost, and which gene
rally disappears before civil war. The
delays ia rebuilding the Temple and
the 9slls Of the city, the obstacles and
impsilRsss iateFPossd, the pause and