Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-10
Questions and Answers.

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Question by Mrs. G. c. Bell,
Stone Hill, Mo-: .Who first used the
expression, Government of the people,
for the people, and by the people'?"
-Answer-Abraham Lincoln, at the
laying of the corner stone of the Get
tysburg monument, referring to the
dead Union soldiers said, 1.-The world
will soon forget what we say here, but
it will never forget what they did
here, when they gave their lives that
government of the people, for the peo-
Pile, and by the people might not perish
from the earth"
Question BY the same person:
.What Vice-Presldent took his oath OF
Office before the President took bis?"
-Answer-History shows that General
Washington took the oath of office as
President April 80, 1889. But it also
shows that organization of Congress
took place some days previously.
Now, as the Senate could not organ
ize until the Vice-President had taken
his seat as President of the Senate, and
as he must first take the oath of Office,
it follows that John Adams took his
oath before General Washington took
his.
Question 3-By Miss Edie Wester-
man, Edge Hill, Mo-: sDid Jephthah
offer his daughter as a burnt sacrifice
to the Lord?'
AnsWer-Dr. Talmage says he did.
But close logical Biblical thought is
not his best hold. DR.. Talmage is in
the habit of taking one or two drops
of what he calls religious thought,
beating them into bushels of bubbles,
and throwing them in rainbows round
him.
And as to-day the spirit of the age
leads to the discussion of religious mat
ters in evory voice, mode and tense,
except the present Indicative active,
and inasmuch as the average mind is
most impressed by what it understands
least, DIR. Talmage is very popular.
But in this case the facts are stub
born, and are all against DIR. Talmage.
Among the worst crimes charged
against the Canaanites was, that they
made their children pass through the
fire to Moloch.
Now, if Jephthah offered his daugh-
ter burnt offering he made her pass
through the fire to the Almighty, thus
placing God and Moloch on an equali-
ty. This insult God would never have
forgiven. 1t would have been an ex-
ample of the worst form of the SIN
against the Holy Ghost.
And yet Jephthah gained place in
Gods sight among the notable ones
(Heb. XII 32.) This place he would
never have reached if the crowning
act of his life had been an insult to the
Almighty.
But the blunder of DIR. Talmage is
utterly inexcusable, because the Ian
guage in the case is clear Judges XII.
34-40). She lamented not her violent
and untimely death, but her unmarried
state. She new no man.
It may be we'll to notice all that this
involved. She was her fathers only
child. By booming her to cilibacy his
house was blotted out of Israel.
Until prophecy located the Messiah
every woman in Israel hoped to be in
the line of his coming. With this
woman this hope died.
But to come to every day facts. This
was evidently a really good woman.
In the ears of such one no other
words are sweeter than the word wife,
mother and home. These words she
never heard. Such woman knows
no sweeter joy than when her child
nestles in her bosom, calls her moth
er, and holds its lips up for her to
kiss. This joy she could never know.
This penalty OF her fathers rash VOW
it took her whole lifetime to pay.
As an expositor of Scripture DIR.
Talmage is not inspired. He is only
inflated by the breath of the unthink-
ing moo, and is liable to burst.