The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-29

When God, creating out Of nought
| ms world into existence brought .
This universe by wisdom planned,
and 1 framed by His Almighty hand
Whose order, beauty, harmony,
We everywhere can plainly see;
Whose every part, below, above,
The impress bears of gracious love.
| The shophar's voice does first record
| The coronation of the Lord.
Thus, from it's first mention up to
the present period, has the shophar
been given the most profound and
grave consideration.
Besides the sounding of the horn in
the hour of religious and joyous festi-
val it was brought into use in time of
war to summon and assemble the
army, and in this respect it is first
mentioned in Judges, iii:27:
And it came to pass when he was come,
that he blew trumpet in the mountain
of Ephraim, and the children of Israel
went down with him from the mount,
and he before them.
Subsequent verses relate the defeat
of 10000 lusty men and the downfall
of Moab, much resembling the bloody
conflicts of later centuries, sans ma
Cutlery Oh IuOueTu warfare.
And here we find the horn brought
into military use, which is long step
from it's initial requirements, when it
served to bring the people together to
hear the law read amid the laundering
and lightning and darkness which
after prevailed and filled the assem-
bled multitude with awe and fear.
After all, in comparing the past
with the present there seems but the
difference in the manufacture, design
and manipulation of material and the
in these times of having
more powerful and more scientific i'm
plements with which to annihilate a
foe. Indeed, it is doubtful whether
could be more effective on a
modern battlefield than the Staying of
10000 valiant men, as was done by the
Tsraelites who answered the sbophars
call to arms.
The shophar has been utilized in
other than times of law-giving and
war, for it is told in Isaiah xxvii:13:
And it shall come to pass in that dav.
that the great trumpet, shall be blown |
and they shall come which were ready |
to perish in the land of Assyria, and the |
outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall |
worship the Lord in the holy mount at
Jerusalem.
The prophet foretold that the sho-
)har should announce the recall of the
people from exile. Therefore it is
seen how, stride by stride, the sho-
'har, the horn or trumpet grew in use
Ind favor and need in the worlds
earliest period.
It's sounds were welcomed by those
0 whom the law was handed down,
is notes were and are maintained by
me denomination to voice the ami
'ersary Of Gods coronation.
BY that same people it's sound is re- ,
orted to IS an alarm or warming of
he approach If the day of atonement
nd that they should review the &C.
ions Of the past year and prepare to
ecome reconciled to God by means of
onfession to him Of their sins and
romise of amendment.
One other reason for the blowing
f the shophar, even at this period,
, to emphasize to the Jewish CON-
lunity the conviction that the time
ill come when the shophar will an
ounce, according to the word of the
rophet, universal freedom when all
ppression and tyranny shall vanish
nd the reign of absolute liberty will J
Q manifested throughout, the world.