Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-09
JEPHTHAH.
On His Return From Victory He
Kept His Promise.
He Must Sacrifice tho Person Seen IA uIs
DOor-Tt Was His Da1chter- Being.
Alan OF His Word the beautiful
Girl Was slain Taimaf.e's
sermon.

DOor-It Was His Daughter Being
Alan Of his Word the beautiful
Girl Was slain Taima.e's
| sermon.
Rev. DR.. Talmage, who is now on his
vacation tour of the west. chose for
topic Sunday morning. "Childreu's
| Rights the text being Judges XII, 30:
'My father, II thou hast opened thy
mouth unto the Lord. do to me accord
! ing to that which hath proceeded out
of thy mouth"
Jephthah was freebooter. Early
turned out from n home where he ought
TO have been cared for. he consorted
with rough men. and went forth 70
earn his living as best he could. In
those times it was considered right for
man 10 go out on independent mill,
tary expeditions. Jephthah was
good man according 20 the light OF his
dark age, but through a wandering
and predatory life he became reckless
and precipitate. The grace of God
changes a mans heart but never re-
verses his natural temperament
The lsraclites wanted the Ammon-
ties driven out OF the country, 50 they
sent delegation to Jephthah. asking
him TO become commander-in-chief of
all the forces He might have said.
/ You drove me ont when you had no
use for me. and now you are in trouble
you want me back" but nc did not saw
that. He takes command of the army.
eends messengers 20 the Ammonites to
/ tell them to yacate the country, and.
| getting no favorable response, marshals
his troops for battle.
! Before going out TO the war Jcph-
thah makes a very solemn vow that il
the Lord will give him the victory then
on his return home whatsoever first
comes out OF his doorway he will offer
in sacrifice as burnt Offering. The
battle opens. IL was no skirmishing
on the edges OF danger, no unlimbering
OF batteries two miles away, but the
hurting of men on the point OF swords
and spears until the ground could no
more drink the blood and the horses
reared 20 leap over the pile OF bodies of
/ the slain. In those old times opposing
forces would fight until their swords
were broken, and then each one would
I throttle his man until they both fell
/ teeth TO teeth, grip TO grip. death-staie
10 death-stare, until the plain was one
tumblcd mass OF corpses from which the
last trace of manhood had been dashed
Jephthah 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. 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 Mizpeh. Open
all your doors 10 receive the captured
treasures. Through every hall spread
the banquet Pile up the viands Fill
/ high the tanlSards The nation is re-
deemed, the invaders are routed and
the national honor is indicated.
| tluzza for Jcphthah the conqueror!
Jephthah, seated on a prancing steed,
advances amid acclaiming multitudes.
but his eye is not on the excited popu-
lace Remembering that he made n
solemn vow that, returning from vic
torious battle Whatsoever first came
on the doorway OF his home. that
should be sacrificed as a burnt Offering.
he had his anxious look upon the door.
wonder what spotless lamb, what
brace OF doves viii be thrown upon the
] a. GO Vi AAAt nuAAN-OAtIlu2. TN. nor
. rors. PaleneSs of death balances his
! cheek Despair selves his heart. His
daughter. his only child, rushcs out the
/ doorway TO throw herself i'm her fathers
arms and shower upon him more kisses
than there were wounds on his brenst
or dents on his shield. All the
triumphal splcndor vanishes. Holding
back this child from his heaving breast
and pushing the locks back from the
fair brow, and looking into the eyes OF
ineNtinguishablea affection, with cholled
utterance he says, Would God ] Law
stark on the bloody plain. My daugh-
ter, my only child joy of my home, life
OF my life, thou art the sacrifcer'
The whole matter was explained &c
her. This was no whining. hollow
hearted girl into whose eyes the father
looked. An the glory Of sword and
shield vanished in the presence of the
valor of chat girl There may have
been tremor OF the lip as rose-leai
trembles in the sough Of the south
wind; there may have been the start
ing Of q tear like q raindrop shook from
the anther of water-lilly; but with a
self-sacrihcc that man may not reach
and only womau's heart can compass
she surrendcrs herself TO fire and death
She cries out in the words of my text
"My father II thou hast opened thy
mouth unto the Lord do unto me what
socvcr hath proceeded from thy mouth.
She bows 20 the knife. and the blood
which So often at the fathers voice had
rushed 10 the crimson chce< smokes in
the fires of The burnt Offering No one
can tell ~ her name. There is mo- need
that we know her namc The gar
lands that Mizpch twisted for Jcphthal
the warrior had gone into the dust
but au ages are twisting this girl,
chaplct 10 is well that her nam,
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 al
the ages can have the title of thi
I daughter of sacrifice
of course This Offering was not pleas
ing to thc Lord: but before you hur
your dcuunciations ut Jephthuhr
cruelty. remember that iu oldcn times
wilton vows were made men thcugh
thcF must execute them. performing
them whether they were wicked o
rood There were also wrong thing
about Jcphthah's vow First hc ough
never to bavc made a. Nest. haviu,