Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-08-05

tSae applause. OF an admlr1ng nation.
BaSld tliuInphalarches Swing out flags
7all over Afizpeh. Open all your doors to
tr rs tho captured treasures Through
every hall spread The banquet, Pile up
the viands. Fill high the tankarda
The nation "a redeemed. the invaders
are routed, end the national honor Is
vmdicated.
THB RDPURr IN TRIUMPH
Huoza for Jephthah, the cunquerort
Jephthah, seated Oh prancing steed.
advances amid aec1ai1ndng multitudes,
but his eye is not on the excited popu-
lace. Remembering that he had made q
solenn VOW that, returning from vao-
! torious battle, whatsoever first came out
Of the doorway OK bis homs, that should
he sacrifice as burnt Offering, be has
bis anxious look upon the door. won
der what spotless lamb, what brace Of
doves, viii be thrown upon the fires Of
the burnt Offering Oh, horrors! Pale
ness Of death blanchea his cheek De-
spair SEXES his heart His daughter. his
only child, rushes out the doorway to
throw herself In her fathers arms and
shower upon him more Kisses than there
were wounds on his breast or dents on
his shield. All the triumphal splendor
vanishea Holding back mis- child from
bis heaving breast and pushing the locks
back from the fair brow and looking In
to the eyes Of inextinguishable affection.
with choked utterance he says; "Would
God 1 lay stark on the bloody plain. Ny
daughter. my only child. Joy OF my
home. life Of my life, thou aEt the sacri-
feel"
The whole matter was explained to
her. This was no whining, hollow heart
ed girl into whose eyes the father looked.
Ali the glory OF sword and shield van
ished In the presence OF the volor OF that
girl There may have been tremor Of
the lip as rose leaftremblesin the sough
OF the. south wind, there may have been
the starting Of o tear like rafndrop
shook from the snther OF o water lily,
but with self sacrifice that man may
not reach and only womanb heart can
compass she surrenders herself to fire
aud to death She cries ont in the words
OF my text, my father, II thou hast
opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do
unto mewhatsoe1er hath psoceeded from
thy mouth. ~
THE mAIDEHs HERoIsM.
She bows to the knife, and the blood
which 30 often at the fathers voice had
rushed to the crimson cheek smokes IN
the fires Of the burnt Offering. Eoone
can tell us her name There IS no need
that we know her Dama The gariands
that Mhpeh twisted foy.9sphshah. the
warrior, had gene into the duss, bot al
ages are twisting this girls chaplek It
Is we'll that her namecams NOT to us, eoz
no ooe can wear It. They may take the
nameot Deborah o. Abigail or Miriam,
but no one In all the ages can have the
title OF this daughter Of sacrifice.
OF course this Offering was NOT pleas
ing DO. the Lord; but before you hurl
your denunciatons at Jephthah's cruelty,
remember that b. olden times, when
Vows were made, men thought they must
execute them, perform them, whether
they were wicked or good There were
two wrong things about Jephthahs VOW.
First, he.ought neyersto have made 1t.
Next, having made II, Il were better
broken than kept. But do pot take on
prctentious airs and eay, II could not
have done as Jephthsh did, II today
you were standing on the banks o. 4 i the
YOU miaht have been throwing your
children to tho crocodnea. 1t Is not be-
cause we are naturally any bettea bot
because we have more gospel hghk
sAcRIElcEs or TO-DAY.
Now, make very practical use OF tins
question when I ten you that the saori.
ice Of Jeph.hah,s daughter wes q type
Of the physical, mental and spiritual
sacrifice * 10000 children IN this day.
There are parents all unMtttlngly bring