Daily Republican., 1883-09-22
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Moses did not desire Hobab to go wit
- him that he might swell Israel's nun
d bers and destroy the identity of IL
= Kenites. So we are jOurneying to
+ good land and invite you to come al
20 with lis.
Not that we may increase our number
| or destroy you as red men, but that "
D may do you good.
f For verify the Lord has spoke
f good concerning Israel, and it shall b
q what goodness the Lord shall do to VI
the same will we do to thee -
The bond Of amity between tn
Rechabites and the Israelites was
source of protection to the Rechabites
Amalek sought to hinder Israel whe
coming out of Egypt, but Jethro helpe'
him. Because of Amalek's conduc,
the Lord said he would have war wit
him and blot out his name. Whel
Saul was made King the Lord sent hin
to destroy Amalek. He gathered to
gether great army, two hundre'
thousand foOtmen, and laid wait in tn
valley.
| When he looked upon those whom he
was called to destroy H. saw th
kenites encamped among them. Like
many people whom we love, they wer'
in bad company: company don~cd Il
destruction, but because Of lSrael's low,
for them Sarl did not strike q blow
until they came from among tL,
Analekites. Thus they were saved.
There may bo before me those who
have been in bad company on whicl
1 hn .,f fnl l,y r,,ii
times you may have been I'D our by
the goodness of God towards you Red
men, never let your wigwam appear
with the enemies of God, but come 0u,
from among them and be ye separate
keeping ever near the Tabernacle and
the Shechinah. The R.chabtes moi
only came out from among the Amale-
kites, but united with Israel in the de.
struction of their enemy, Sisera. In the
time Of the j ud ges, Israel sinne,l. The
Lord sold them in the hands ut Jabin,
King of Canaan, to punish them. Sisera
was Jabin's captain. These two men
oppressed the Israelites tor many years,
destroying their growing crops, and
carrying off their grain and putting
their wives and children to the swo d.
They mads Israel poor and timid.
Sisera, with his nine hundred chariOts
of iron, kept them in constant dread.
trem bling seized all the men of Israel
80 that there was not man to be found
to lift up the sword against the iuva.
ders. As it always has been, when men
lose heart and backbone too, II woman
was found who had both. Deborah was
made Jddge aud took her seat under a
palm tree where ali the oppressed
might have access to her. AS her name
signifies she was only a lighted torch,
but She kinlled flame throughout all
the country. Like Joan Of Arc she in
spired her people with the highest EN-
thusiasm. She stirred up Barak. When
the Lord wants man stirred up he sets
u woman about it. Barak gathered to-
gether an army of ten thousand meD
But such was his dread of the eLeiny, his
want of seif-reliance and his contihence
in Deborah, that he would not strike a
blow iii her presence at the head Of the
army. The nest OF tie CanaaLitrs
cauped IN the plain of Iaanallu, but
Deborah and Barak lei their Amy up
on Tabor.
From Tabor they marched against
Si.era, aud Earak, stirred up by q
woman, became the hero of the ildm-
ing sword" "The Lord discounted
Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his
host with the edge of the sword before
Barak. Howbei Sisera lighted down
off his chariot and fled to the tent of
Jael, the wife of Hebtr, the kenite"
Jael met him, took him into her tent,
gave Iim buttermiik, and while ht was
asleep drove the tent pin through his
temple, so that when Barak came he
found his enemy dead. Que OF the
greatest enemies to Christianity AID the
human race is poverty, brought about
sometimes 10y pesiilence and disease
Christianity going down from Tabor in
to the valleys and plains of eve y civi-
lized country, has almost destroyed
the possibility Of Il famine III amy local
ity. BY the rapid transit of supplies
by railroad and steamboat from the IA
vored to the furnishing districts, people
are fed aud saved.
Her churches everywhere are trying
to destroy poverty by leicning Industry
and economy. Ye,, more: christianity
gives of her substance to support aims
houses and hospitals. She feeds the
hungry and clothes the naked, but we
rejoice that you red men are helping
in this most praise. worthy work. We
are glad to know when hunger, like
Sisera, enters your tent, you destroy
him at once by giving him buttermilk
and the golden wampuln. When a
brother is not able TO follow the hunt
you support him in his sickness More
han this--when his spirit takes its
Hight yon bury him decent, and ad-
to the necessities Of his widow
md orphans oh, that we had more
)aels with buttermik and tent pin;
more red men with sympathy and
more christians like Dorcas
md Zacheus.
Again, the Rechabites, lneal descend
,nts of the Kenites, in the person of
onadab, assisted J-hu in the destruc-
ion of Jezebel and the idolatry she
stablished in Israel. Ahab, the seventh
King of the separate kingdom OF Israel,
vas stirred up by Jrz"hel 10 work
before the Lold. "Jezebel
was Phenician princess, and her
marriage with Ahab was the turning
)oint in the history Of Israel. Size was
woman in whom, with the reckless
md liGentious habits of an Oriental
Jueen, were united tue sternest and
he fiprcest quail les Inherent in the
phenirian people. In her hands her
husband became mere puppet.
She established ona grand scale the
Phenician worship in the Court OF
fed at her table four hundred
md fifty prophets Of Baal and four hun.
lred prophets Of Astarte.
The prophets of Jehovah at her COM
mand were taken and slain and only
'sw saved by Obediah's hiding them 10 a
cave and secretly supplying their needs.
w hen Jezebel found her husband cast
iown because he could not secure by |t
purchase the properly of Naboth she
" rOte letters In Ahab's name and sealed
hem with his seal, proclaimed fast,
that heavy guilt lay on one
had basphpmcd God and the King,