St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-03-23
ana his dealings with the children OF

Abraham.
And then as she would 60 abroad, |
as her duties often required, and she |
would see the wickedness about her, |
the worship of the idols and the in
dulgences in the heather festivities,
she would rush back so the refuge of
her own home and question her
mother about it, asking, over and
over again:
oh, mamma, how can they forget
God so? How can they be so wicked?"
And then the mother would go over
the history Of the children of Israel
again, and show her how repeatedly
they had wandered away from home,
now affection and trouble had come,
and how at last they had been brought
back to him.
Thus the years passed and Debc -ah
grew into womanhood. Still thrre
were the distorted features, but with
the development of years and the
growing near to God, there had come
a subduing influence over the irregu.
lar, harsh lines of the face No one
who looked into those deep, serious
eyes and saw them light up as she
talked concerning the things of God;
no one who heard the wonderful
depth and fullness of her resonant
voice could have failed to realize that
behind that homely face there was
some hidden power and charm which
captlvated and subdued. The great
hunger of her heart for knowledge of
God had daring the early years drawn
from her mother every vestige and
scrap of history of her people and
their God, and then she had grown
into the custom of telling them over
to her mother in her own wonderful
way. And her mother would listen
with rapt attention and when she
Was done she would lay her hand rev.
erently upon her head and exclaim:
Surely, the spirit of God resteth
upon thee, my child
One day Deborah returned home
after specially trying ordeal in the
market place. For there had come
that day a company of Canaanites to
the village and the people had given
themselves up to the festivities of the
occasion.
81 "Oh, if some one would only tell the
! people of their sin," Deborah ex.
claimed, after she had related to her
mother the sad scene.
. "And why do not you?" asked her
mother, with sudden inspiration.
! "Me, mother?" Deborah exclaimed
shrinking back at the thought. How
I could II"
Nothing more was said but hel
mothers words, why do not your
!. kept ringing in her ears, until at las
( she exclaimed to herself:
Z Il will! l will just tell them O
! Gods leading in the past. Of the pas
Z sins of the people and how God ha!
I punished them. OF the present wick
Z edness and how surely God will visit
{ affection upon them if they do no
/. turn from evil ways and serve the liV
{ ing God"
+ And Deborah kept her resolve, AM
s not many days after this her nam
! was on every ones lips as the on
& who had fearlessly stood up in tn
! market place and denounced the sin
g of the people and pleaded with then
: to turn back to God.
/. Now one of those WHO had listene
4 to Deborah's message in the marke
+ place was a man of Mount Ephrair
{ named Lapidoth. His spirit wa
! stirred within him at the words h
e heard and when the king had refuse
i to let Deborah speak further in tn
+ market place he offered her shelte
i among his people in the mountai
Z Businesses And hither it was ths
j Deborah withdrew and she becam
the wife of Lapidoth, and the plac
where she dwelt became known q
the place of the palm tree of Deboral
lie for there the beautiful great tire
Id reared it's tall head to the sky an
lie was landmark by which the peopl
re were guided to her dwelling. An
s. hither the people resorted to her fl
ST instruction and judgment, and as til
IN affection of the children of Isra
IN grew, for Jabin the king increased h
es oppression more and more, the peop
III came to cry unto their God and at la
Re through Deborah end Barak, a bray
N and mighty man of war whom 81
III called to her aid, she delivered Isra
Is. and judged them for many years.