Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-22
FOR SUNDAY E.l DIN 6.
All sorts or Opinions.
ANCIENT AND MODERN WAR

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ANCIENT AND MODERN WAR
FARE.
Read the daily papers for accounts Of
the latter and holy writ for I he former.
Accordingly Aosee proceeded to dee
stroy the Aiidisnitss. u;Sssr the eona
lmand of God. as reported Ii, the 2afh
chapter Of Numbers, TO .s.4ss the Mid
8Iian:tes and sln!te them. !" =. he horrible
4 metaod by which he accomplished
their destruction was not coEtrarJ to
the usages Of warfare in those ,layS and
! it was not unlike that now pursued by
the Chinese toward Christians and for
eigners. tho it outrages ell modern
civilized sensibilities. The story is told
thus in the 32st chapter OF Numbers:
And the Lord spake unto Moses,
Saying: r..
.Avenge the children of Israel Of the
4 'Middanites; afterwards shalt thou be
4 gathered unto thy people.
And Moses spake unto the people,
i saying: Arm some Of yourselves unto
4 the war, and let them go against the
Midianites and avenge the Lord Of
i INDIAN.
A OF every tribe thousand, turnout
4 the war.
thousands of Israel, a thousand Of
every tribe, twelve thousand armed for
4 war.
4 And Moses sent them to the war, a
4 thouand of every tribe, them and Phin-
4 ehas,. the son Of Eleazar, the priest. to
& the war, with the holy Instruments, and
A.. Ill, l.s q
And they warred against the Mid
ianites, as the Lord commanded Moses |;
!. and they slew all the males.
And they slew the kings OF INDIAN,
beside the rest Of them that We're slain:
namely, Evi and Rekem and Zur and
Hur and Reba, five kings of indian;
\ Ralaam, also the son OF Beor, they slew
a with the sword
And the children Of Israel took all
the women of the Minian captives and
their little sons and took the spoil5of all
their cattle and all their focks and all
"A their goods.
And they burned all their cities
d castles with fire.
And they took all the spoils and all
4 the prey, both of men and beasts.
= la3la Anu llSy Drought TIE Cd pllNcS e11lO
the prey and the spoil unto Moses and
Eleazar, the priest, and unto the con-
gregation of the children of Israel, unto
]; the camp at the plains of Moab, which
are by Jordan near Jericho.
I, And Moses and Eleazar. the priest,
4 and all the princes of the congrega-
ton, went forth to meet them without
ii the camp.
And Moses was wroth with the Off
!. GERS of the host, with the captains over
thousands, and captains over hum
Il dreds. which came from the battle.
(, And Moses said unto them, Have ye
Il saved all the women alive?
| Behold these caused the children of
II Israel, thru the counsel of Balaam, to
n commit trespass against the Lord in
a the matter of Peor, and there was
plague among the congregation OF the
Lord.
Now therefore kill every male
Z among the. little ones and kill every
:iswith him.
:. have not known man by lying with him
keep for yourselves. Z
4
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a Hartford Courant:l
II One OF the older clergymen of Bishop
81 Potters diocese hasn't doubt on the
!, subject. We do not recall his name
4 just now, but We remem Der Very well
some of his public utterances. He is
Sconvinced that the Sunday schoo as at
Il present managed is a monumental mis-
-l5take and is doing the church harm
al rather than good. His idea is that the
III catechizing Of the children was origin
t ally and should now be the work of the
t parish priest-as much so as the adj
+ ministering of the sacraments CT the
u preaching of sermons tosthe SroWn-ups.
81 The sooner the church harks back28tc
81 the primitive Gus tom in this respect, he
4 says. the better it will be for her.
J Now a Chicago Methodist preacher
" the Rev. John Clayton Youker, is talk
7 ing out in meeting about the sunday
s school. 1t is the weakness of Protes-
tantism." he says. 1t should be Prot.
y estantisn's strength, but it never vii
). be lin his opinion) until radical reforms
n are planned and effected. As things are
+ now the teachers are of all grades OF
i intelligence and piety: the teaching Is
"A fragmentary and haphazard when It if
: not ..wishy-washy::" a great deal o.
! time wasted on trivial matters; there
/ is a lot of :vapid moralizing:" thu
boys do not study their lessons. ane
their years in sunday school some.
times leaves them as densely ignorani
. of the Bibie as of true religion. Here
Ills one part of the Rev. Mr.. Youker's
:. Arrangements:
Place a shorthand reporter in each
) lclass of the most renowned Sunday
school in America on any Sabbath ant
!, I venture 10 say that a comparison o.
: the transcripts afterwards would prove
a sad astonishment. One of ths
!. most attractive Bible classes in Chi
) cago consumed great share of it:
& lesson time with the question: Art
: there more evil spirits in the world nov
than in the time of CHRISTI? Another
magnificent class few years agt
used its lesson hour in debating
whether God or Satan sent the dogs t,
y lick Lazarus sores. When that elias!
: studies Job it will no doubt discuss hi
Z folly in using potsherd on his boil
n instead of a police.
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