The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

fires Of loyalty to the dream or AGRA
ham and to the cOVenant-keeplng Je-
hovah. BY lifting aloft the common
ideals, she created once more some
thing akin to d / NATIONAL seht-
ment.
When The Hour Struck.
Long Deborah had been firing some
hearts and restraining others. PATRIOTS
must have patience. Slowly but newt
ably the time ripened to he Our or
deliverance. The and high
| handedness of the Canaanites grew
| worse and worse. The very national
life OF Israel was threatened. All the
while the alliance Of the Jews grew
stronger. n wonderful woman
bound to herself, by confidence III her
judgment and patriotism, the natural
leaders Of her people.
AT last the hour struck for which
the patriots had prayed and prepared.
Deborah sent the word to brave Barak.
up in keGesh-Naphtali, TO rally the
ten thousand true men Of Naphtaii
II Sebulun to Mt. Tabor, and she
would by means not divulged, draw
forth Sisera TO battle and defeat.
Right here Barak proved himself q
man Of first grade, for he was willing
to take second place. He agreed TO
the plan proposed, provided only that
Deborah herself would lead the host
lillO Ddllic. lIlS u1edIt ltSISLt11lS IL
glory Of the defeat Of Sisera into q
p, woman's hand. But Barak was that
> sort Of true patriot who puts the COM
, mon cause above personal glory.
Barak realized that the host would
follow famous Deborah whom they
knew as the oracle Of God. She, TO
. be utterly fair to him, with ran
= words, remained the leader Of the
- ten thousand that he was re%linquish-
ing into the hands Of q woman the
lcredit for a memorable victory. Siseras
'defeat was sure, and famous would b?
Z that leader before whom he should
Il fall. Barak was willing TO have his
l. own fame obScured, if thereby the
enemv of his people might be con-
} ouered.
\ Cowardly Captain and a Cruel
Woman.
War, our saddened hearts now
realize, IS not very different today
from what it has always been. excep,
that it is somewhat more deadly. The
ct clash Of man with man, in a struggle
OF death, is essentially the same il
France n Poland today as it was
IL when the host Of Deborah and Baral
\ swept down from symmetrical Tabor
III upon the charlOtS and hOrsemen o
81 Sisera in the great plain of Esdraelol
re below.
Il: By some providence which is no
81 made clear: "The Lord discomfite,
II Sisera and all his chariots," and tn
Israelites were given a complete an.
at overwhelming victory. Evidenti
q from the Song of Deborah, the rive
nd Kishon, a trifiing stream ordinarily
overfiowed its banks in q sudden storr
tn and the chariOts were engulfed or S
p sorely hindered that they could nc
nd fight. .
as AS for the famous captain OF tn
nd ~Canaanites, Sisera proved himse
In somewhat less han a hero. Instea
ie- OF staying by his troops to the enc
ed and dying like a brave general, h
slipped out from the melee and sougf
OF to save his own life by ignominio,
in, flight. History is full Of sha1nef,
sci episodes like this, OF great leade,
,rd who, in a crisis, prove p%usillaniou
nd pricing their own safety above hone
and duty. Slsera's message to IL
CO. youth of today is to learn TO die nobl
lies rather than to live cowardly.
IN. HAD ne died or been captured lii
the q brave soldier Sisera would ha,
ifa, escaped the ig~nominious end vlic
was his, a fate like that Of q wi
all animal. In his flight, he came 10
OF bedOuln encampment. The tents We
those Of a party OF neutral Kenite
ests The men We're all absent. and the rig
etiquette of the time and the peor
ard, demanded that Sisera should pass
OF the unprotected households. In
Dor. womanly terror, he committed :
sort folly and offence of seeking to hi
abs III the Womens quarters OF Hehe
5ent tent. Jael, the wife, quick or *
to resoIted to guile. She welcomed hi
thel lea nm from the gOatSkin f1ll
Is a curdied milk. and when he fell swi
,uld 1! INTO the sleep Of utter exhaustie
a.. she slew him.
the ~ ueeu was JaePs. Cle1
re- commentators have tried to expls
Iaticn - SlouhoS OF Slser'S V
nelly has;S or u0aeIt cooe. and on /
.nnI cruel and monstrous act. in driv;ne
de- eeht peg through the temple OF
,aro Sieeplns guest. We know that ,
trife a fair fight. 7 lave our standards
Ing, biting or kicking each othar. :
-be;r we a'so know that cruelty is comm,