Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-08-03
TABERNACLE PULPIT
TALMACE breaches ON THE
RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
My Father, " Thou Hast Opened Thy
Mouth Unto the Lord, do to NJ.
According to That Which Hath Fro
ceeded Out OF Thy Mouth"

BRookLyN, n, ", July 30, The Rev, DR.,
ralmage, who Is now ON his vacation tour
In the west has chosen for topic for this
morning, "Children's Rights"
lephthah was q freebooter. Early
turned out from home where he
ought to have been cared for, he con-
sorted with rough men, and went forth
TO earn his living as best he could. In
those times il was considered right for
man to 20 out ON independent mill
tary expe itions, Jephthah was u
good man according To the light of his
dark age, but through wandering
and n predatory life he became restless
and precip,tute. The grace Of tod
changes II mans heart, but never re-
verses his natural temperament
The lsrdclites wanted the Ammon.
ties driven cut of their country, So
they sent u delegation toJepht nh. rsk-
ing him To become commander ia chief
of all the forces lie might have said,
"Nou drovS me out when you had no
use for me, u Il now YOU are III 'rouble
you want me back tut he did not
say that lie ialSes command of the
army, sends messengers To the Nmmon-
ties to varate the country, and, getting
no favorable response, marshals his
troops for battle,
Before going ont to the war, Jcph.
thah makes u very solemn vow, that II
the Lord will give him the victory,
then, on his return home, whats oevcr
first comes out of his doorway he will
offer in sacrifice rs u burnt Offering,
The battle opens. IL was no skirmlsh-
ing on the edge Of danger, no I'M
limbering of batteries two cs away,
but the hurting of men IN the point
of swords and spears until the ground
could no more drink the blood, aud
, the horses reared To leap over the
piles of bodies OF the slain. In those
| old times, opposing forces would hght
until their sN ords were broken, and
| then each one would throttle his man
| until they both fell, teeth to teeth,
| grip 10 grin, death stare to deaf stare,
until the plain was one tumblcd
mass of corpscs from which the last
trace of manhood had been dashed out
,Icphtnah wins the day, Twenty
cities lay captured at his feet Sound
| the victory all through the mountains
| of Gilead. Let the trumpeters call up
| the survivors. llomcNard To your
| wives and children, llomewnrd with
YOUR glittcring trea' ures. llomeNnrd
| to have the applause of IN ndmiring
| nation, Build triumphnl arches
Swing out iags ali over Milpeh, Open
| all vorr doors u receive the captured
| treasures Through every hall spread
| the banquet. Pile up the rnnds iill
| high the tankardS, The nation IS nc
| deemed, the invaders are routed and
| the national honor + vindicntcd,
Iluzza for Jephthnh the con incror
| ,Jephthah, seated on II prancing stced,
| advances amid ace aiming multitudeSf
| but his eye is not on the excited popu
! lace. Remembering that he had made
| Il solemn vow that returning from
| victorious battle, whatsoever first
came out Of the doorway of his home
| that should be sacrificed rs a burnt
| offering, no h rs his anxious look upon
| the door. wonder what spotlcss
! lamb, what brace of doves will bt
thrown upon the fires of the burnt
| offering. oh horrors laleness ol
! dca IN blanrhcs his cheek, DesEnii
seizcs his hca t. Ills daughter, his
| only child. PUSHES out the doorway to
throw herself in her fathers arms ant
shower upon him more kisses than
| there were wounds on his breast oI
| dents on his shield. All the tri-
| umphal spcndor vuni>hes. Holding
| back this child from his hcaviDg breast
and pushing the locks back from tn,
| fair brow. and looking into the eye;
! of inextinCuishablc affection, Will
chol<ed utterancc he says, "Woult
| God Law stark on the bloody plain
NV daughter, my only child, JOY of my
nome, life Of my life, thou art the sac
rificc,"
The whole matter was explained t.
her. This was no whining, hollow
hearted girl into whose eyes the father
looked. All the glory of sword and
| shield vanished in the presence OF TIL,
yalor OF that girl, Theirs may have
been a trcmor of the lip as rose lea
trembles in the sough or the soutl
wind: there may have been the starting
OF II te like II rain-drop shook from
| the anther OF II waterlily; but with n
selfsacritice that man may not reach
! and only woman's heart can compass
| she surrcnders herself TO fire anC
! death. She cries out in the words Of
my text, MY father, ~ thou has
o gened thy IN nth unto the Lord, dc
unto me whatsoever hath proceeded
from thy mouth.
! She bows to the knife, and TIN
f, blood, which so often at the father
voice had rushed 10 the crimson cheek
| smokes in the fires OF the burnt-oifer
| ing No one can tell us her name
| here no need that we know hel
name, The garlands that Mizepl
twisted for .lcphthah the warrior ha,
gone into the dust; but all ages arr
twisting this girls chaplct IL is wei
that her name came not to MS, for No
one can wear it. They may take thu
| name OF Deborah, or Abigail, OF
| Miriam, but no one in all the ages car
have the title OF this daughter of sac
| rifice.
| OF cou SO this offering was MOI
| pleasing to the Lord; but before Y ,
! hurl your denunciatlons at Jepthah's
! cruelty, remember that in olden time
when VOWS were made, men thought
| they must execute them, perform
| them, whether they were wicked OF
| good. There were two wrong thing
| about Jephthah's vow. First, he ough
never to have made It, Next HAVING
| made il. it were better broken than
| kept But do not take on pretentiou,
airs and say, II could not have don,
| as .Jephthah did" III to-day you wcr,
| standing on the banks OF the Gange!
and YOU II "a been born in India, you
might have been throwing your chill
| drcn to the crocodiles. IL is not be
! cause we are natura ly any better
out because we have more gospc
light.
Now. ! make very practical use %
this question when tell you that thu
sacrifice of Jcphthah's daughter was {
type of the physical, mental, anc
spiritual sacrifice of ten thousand chill
drcn in this day. There are parents
all unwittingly bringing TO bear upon
their children class of influences
which will as certainly ruin them ~
knife and torch destroyed Jephthah''
daughter While ! speak, the whole
nation, without emotion and without
shame looks upon the stupendous sac
ri6ce.
I'm the first place. ! remark thai
much Of the system OF education in oui
day is system of sacrifice. When
hildren spend six or seven hours Q
daY n sch oil, and then must spend
two or three hours in preparation fol
school the next day, will YOU tell me
| how much time they will have for sun
| Trash My and the Qbt Ia mi mo