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temporal success that you are willing
to sacrifice your hearts life in order to
win it?
But though at is common custom to
regard Jephtbah as one Of the widest
characters of the Bible as Or. Blaikie
once said "a rough, needless man,
alike rash in vowing and heartlcss in
fulfilling" yet by the burning pyre
built by this mans sin we see in the
dying girls face one of the sweetest
characters in all history. The father
represents the man Of the world. the
man of ambition. and in one sense the
man Of selfish ambition and the man
Of sin The daughter represents, in Il
humble sense the type of Jesus. Ms she
died for sin in which she was not Il
participant The one character signi-
iics eternal disgrace The other char
acter represents II daughters sacrili-
cial blood flowing to wipe out that dis
grace. Upon the gloom of Jephthah :
painful history an ethereal brightness
shines. Whnt can be more beautiful. -
once said DR.. Wiscman, more wonder
full. than this pure and lovely maid,
brought up among bandits aud far
from the tabernacle Of God. thus freely
Offering herself as Il thank Offering for
the victories OF Israel: And who can
fail to see in the story of the meek and
self sacrificing maiden marvellous
and mysterious adumhratiOn Of n bet
Ter sacrifice OF another soul of an only
child. perfectly free and voluntary. and
Of virgin holiness and heavenly purity,
the sacrifice of Christ. who gave his
/ spotlcss soul to death for orr saies."
/ In This sweet story Of the lovely maid
en- dying for her fishers sins can you
/ not, o man, learn the lesson Of how
Christ died that you MIGHT live VIII
you not accept that divine sacrifice as
an atoncmcnt for your sins?
Rcuoupcc Sin
! The human ana divin" sacrifices OF
/ life who can ovcrlook them? We
glory in the fact when hero phys
1 ically dies 10 physically save mankind
When Dr. Robert Koch, the noted dis
coverer of the bnrili OF tuberculosis
advocated tn" idea that the tubcrculo
sis of cattle was not infectious for man
and II young bactcrioloYst to prove
that theory false. inoculat"d himself
with the cattle tuberculosis germ and
died as Il result Of the inoculaton. We
said: "That is glorious. that is grand
That young man died IN order that We
might physically live. He died in order
to prove the necessity of our guarding
against the tuberculosis OF the dums
brute But this young maiden OF IN!
text did more than to die in order tina
her father might live. | can ima2in,
that in the crude belief of those day,
it may have been held that the maj
who failed to fulfill his deliberate vow
would perish eternally 1t may hav,
been that JephthaliS daughter yielded
her life TO avert that dreadful fat,
from her father. If SO. how heroi,
was her sacrifice. How he must hav,
loved her for doing so. while lc lie
walled the rash vow that had made /
necessary. Have we no love for IS artist
whose death was rendered npCrSSar,
by our tranSgressions: He who die,
10 save lis from the penalty of Our Sit
asks us for our grateful love. tan W,
withhold it; Let US ever hate and rp
nounce the sin which lie died To wlp,
away, and let rs give to HIM on
hearts alteration and consccrate ON
lives TO his service
We, too with him are dead
And shall with him arise
The cross on which he hung his hen
Shall watt us 10 the skies.
copyright. 1894, by Louis klopsc-