Milford chronicle., 1904-04-22
Talma8e
SeTnl O n
BY Rec.
Frank De 60iff
Tain age. ID. d.

Los Angeles, Cal. April lin these
uays OF eager desire for great wealth
ana social position, when multitudes
are absorbed in the struggle for world
~ successes, this sermon comes as a
wholesome and timely warning that it
is possible to pay too high price for
fortunes favors and that fame may
be too dearly bought The text is
Judges Xi, 30, Alas my daughterr'
An old trite saying declares, What
is worth getting is worth paying for"
But tie payment demanded for what |
we want is often more than mere sill |
Yer and gold. 1t may cost the pound |
of flesh near the heart of an Antonio. |
and it may mean silver or gold, Grim
soned by having been dipped and
rusted and dyed in human blood.
Yes, | Will own that land. l will
yet be master of Daylesford manor
house" These We're the words uttered
by young pauper, then being edu-
Gated in the charity school Of the little
hamlet of Churchill, in Oxfordshire,
England. That Daylesford manor house
had once been the property Of Warren
Hastings great-grandfather Warren
Hastings, for that was the pauper's
name, was then a mOtherless lad. and {
the son of a good for nothing shiftless !
father who had fled to England to {
Snd his grave ultimately in the faroff I
West Indies. Aye. Warren Hastings as II
a man fulfilled the pledge he made as b
Il boy, but he paid dearly for what 5
ne was after. He paid for Daylesford W
manor house with money purchased s.
by years of exile. years of toll years Il
Of persecution. What was worth hav- cl
ing was worth paying for, but the
price for the Hastings ancestral home
came very high
JeDhthah's Ambition. eI
Well, today we find General Jephthah ~
having a great ambition. He was not NJ
'nly seeking a noble and a legitimate on
.oal, but he WAS rashy and recklessIy cd
eady to pay any price to reach that lii
oal. Jephthah had two objects in TO
eacllinS this goal of his ambition. The an
rst was to wipe out the stigma on the oW
acod Of his birth Like Alexandra I'm
'umas, he could never mention the ina
anne of his mother without bringing me
, Jephthah wanted to drive out tlle in MS
lding Ammonitish hosts who were run
reateninS to destroy his people. So Llu
e night before the great battle open- wa
General Jephthah in his military Jaw
Mt made pledge something like this: the
God. if tomorrow thou wilt only Il
We me success, if thou wilt allow me son
atone for the awful record of nv con
'th by being a deliyerer Of my people Iatl
)m these invading herds of cut OI &
'oats, promise thee that whatsoever perS
heth forth Of the doors of my house
meet me when l return in peace ask'
IN the children of Ammon shall ing
ely be the Lords, and l will offer it mot
for burnt Offering" Mott
Iardly had tbe roar and din 90 ,,o44,. is al
sed when the messengers on swift mee'
OF horses sped everywhere. They tills
c as fast as Paul Revere galloped- t1al
ara Lexington and Concord to Doy
use the minutemen to rise and 'nat
st the invasion of the British sol meet
$, as fast as Nathan N1ayar D. ~ syste
d rode TO reocb or,Io,, a.. -, train
+ WellingtOn's trirn,,b o. W. iiresit
everywhere the hard riding cou- Snoui
shouted the news to an exulting ultars
lie: The land is free! The land is the 81
The land is free! Jephthah has
Jephthah has wonr' For
A Foolish PLEDGE great,
hen the Roman generals came stroy
from their conquests, they were would
a a triumpbont entrv into ~ with
ital of the seven hills " NJ -, acter
lsiastic ovation was eyer orrardod to give
e military chieftains Of the Cae- er say
than that which now welcomed can te
lDerator of the Israelitish people. Ois sli
haldenS came forth to dance be- d srea
hln' and to strew flowers in his WIN
ana to sing their sweetest songs. "noie
scnOOl children welcomed Lafa- ui"HJ
on his last journey through our III lhe
and. Such music and songs and teIhpor
IS as afterward welcomed King LOT III
lIter tie destruction of the Phil LLiealls
were surging over General 10 theI
nah In great tidal waves of har oe allO
us sound or snrronndino H.. of the
lule floral rainbows, dyed in the only co
OF colOrs, with this one excep- p@teuI
General Jephthah had no taunt VINO
me Of a shepherd boy to imbit- une sure
IN with jealousy. But as the that Is
fish liberator comes nearer to respecte
use we see a great cOmmotion only at
lly this mighty leader stops and .HoVeme
~ like a drunken man. for mI'' OF
coming out of his house. Ieph- Ilow
ees his beautiful daughter. his wen
ild' stepping forth to greet him. looks at
the terms of his vow she must nearing
sacrifice for his great conquest ~ come
pledge which Jephthah made to say ne
Is a very foolish one. God did 'neals'
ut General Jephthah to slay his a very p
n; neither does ba want 70 80 his uncle
1e foolish sacrifices some Of US owner {
ling to make in order TO win "nus.
Il success in life. Therefore l one OF
V I'm this sermon 70 oo+o1oo,,,, had his
the foolish sacrifices so,,o - directors,
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