The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-04-22

hooked. All the glory OF sword and
shield vanished in the presence Of the
valor Of that girl. There may have been
a tremor Of the lip. as = rose leaf trem-
hles In the sough of the south wind;
there may have been the starting Of a
tear Ike . raindrop shaken from the
Anther Of a water lily. But with . self
sacrifice that man may not reach and
only wOmAn's heart can compass she
surrenders herself to lire and to death
She cries out in the words Of nv text,
MY father, IL thou hast opened thy
mouth unto the Lord, do unto me what
soever hath proceeded from thy
mouth"
She bows to the knife, and the blood,
which 50 often at the fathers voice had
rushed to the crimson check, smokes In
the fires Of the burnt Offering. No ono
a tell us her name. There is no need
that We know her name. The garlands
that Mixpah twisted for Jephthah the
warrior have gone into the dust, but
all ages are twisting this girls chaplet.
II Is well that her name came not 10
us, for no one can yea it. They may
take the name Of Deborah or Abigail or
Miriam, but no one in all the ages shah
have the title of this daughter Of sacri-
Zee.
OF course this offering was not pleas
ing 10 the Lord. especially as q pro-
vision was made in the law for such a
contingency, and JephthAh might have
redeemed his daughter by the payment
Of 20 sheckles Of silver. But before you
hurl your denuneiStions at JephthAh's
cruelty remember that in olden times,
when vows were made, men thought
they must execute them, perform them,
whether they were wicked or good.
There wer two wrong things about
JephthAh's vow. First he ought never
to have made It, Next asving made A.
It were better broken than kept But
do not take on pretentious airs and sayt
Il could not have done as JephthAh
did" II in former days you had been
standing on the banks of the Ganges
and you had been born In India, you
might have thrown your children to
the crocodileS 1t is not because we are
naturally any better. but because we
have more Gospel Light.
Now I make very practical use Of
this question when / tell you that the
sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter was a
type Of the physical, mental and spirit
ual sacrifice of 10000 children in this
day. There are parents all unwitting-
ly bringing to bear upon their children
q class of influences which will as GER
tainly ruin them as knife and torch de-
stroyee Jephthah's daughter. While I
speak. the whole nation, without emo
ton and without shame, looks upon the
~stupendous sacrifice.
In the first place, / remark that much
Of the system Of education in our day
Ii q system Of sacrifice. When children
spend six Of seven hours In school and
then must spend two or three hours in
preparation for school the next day,
will you tell me how much time they
will have for sunshine and fresh air
wbich 1. n.c...arv Co. ,hs go -
coming liseP No o,s c.n ,s.l 49,
thankful than ! 40 tor n aaraD..m.n
Of common school education. The
printing Of books appropriate for
schools, the MULTIPLICATION OF nhilo.
soph;cal ,nra-s..s m. ..,.hu.L-.~.
Of normal scbooI. whi.h nrov;aa Co.
opr cb;ldrsr ,.achsr, =, IN"
are themes ON which every -nhIlsn,hro'
mist ought 20 he congratuis,ed Rn,
this berdin0 Of great muI,,tudss n,
children In iu-yentIla,ed schooIroom,
and poorly eouipned halls of Instruction
Ia making many Of he nlace- ., lnowi.
edge In his country a hinge boIoc.ns,
Politics In many az he cite. Oct. int
educational atfsIrs and whus m. ,wo
political parties are scrahhllno for Al.
honor. J~ephthah,s aapohter nrr,shes
IA ia 50 much 40 that shere are many
schools in the country TO-DAY wh,ch are
preparing tens of thousands OF invalid
men and women for the future; 50 that
in many places. by the time the chjld,s
education is finished the child IL An
ished! In many places, In many e~ities
of the country. there are large auuro.
pr~iations for everything else and cheer
full appropriations, but as soon as the
appropriation is to be made for the edu-