The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-04-08

in its going, but the war changed it
all. Segregated manhood got longer
and larger view into the relationship
OF the sexes; wounded and suffering.
he almost worshipped the tireless ten
derness of the Red Cross nurse who
ministered to his needs; fighting and
struggling under gas and shell his
very soul thrilled at sight of a Saliva
tion Army lassie who cheered him at
his grim task. Chivalry has been born
anew in the firese of war and there is
infinite gain in the fact. Womanhood
is coming into what is really her own.
But there were CLEANS of this in the
old day as well, and Deborah is the
most modern woman in the Bible. She
broke through the political barrier
and became a Judge when only brute
strength was the badge of office. She
entered the company of soldiers and
held the devotion of the last man in
the camp and was as safe as she
would have been in her own home.
She lighted the fires of religious zeal
and caught the same tribute that has
been given the Woman's "Y" and the
Army Lass. She shared mans life
and enriched it, maintaining her own
peculiar charm through it ALL
The Patriot.
Israel had gotten into trouble and
Othnlel and Enud had been lifted into
prominence as liberators from the OPP
preston, but there was another de-
scent into the abyss of servitude to
the bloody brute of Haroshath. Life
and property were worthless. Hunted
like hare the Israelite could no lon
ger go along the highway but must
creep through by-paths. Girls and
children found no shelter, for even at
the wells they were greeted with
flights of arrows. Not against armed
enemies,but against weaponless weak
ness was the Hunnish malignity hurl-
ed. .Rulerless and with surrendered
arms Israel groaned under pitiless
cruelty. 1t was in such day as this
that Deborah appears. Some one
sought her advice, which was so good
that it was told to others who in turn
found their way to the palm tree
where she sat fearlessly. Presently
her worth was heralded and the Wise
Woman was lifted to the place of the
Judge by the sheer demand of popular
opinion. Israel had found a ruler
whose passion of motherhood included
every hurt child of whatever age in all
the land. Periodically as did Wash
ington, she set herself to serve her
people and in the day of womans'
slavery found herself in the heart of
the political life of her day, emanci-
pated by the need and the trust of Is
rael. She was the sweetheart of a
race.
The Inspirer.
The stories of butchery and oppres-
sion multiplied and with each new out
| rage Deborahs passionate sense of
motherhood for her people increased
and urged some effort of relief. There
was no use in the appeal to the sense
of kindness or goodwill; none in the
name of justice or right; none in fur
Their servility that would have CALLED
the self-respect of the people Slowly
but as surely as in our own case she
saw that brutal force must be met by
force as the only language that could
be understood. He who takes the
sword to settle his question when
other offer reason must perish by the
sword. Having reached this conclu-
sion, there was the other problem.
Who should be the leader? How could
the affair be managed. There must
have been many counsel under the
palm tree before the word went out
for Barak, whose territory was most
open to the harassments of the enc
my He may have been their prisoner
for some readings of SIP give "cap-
tors" instead of 'captives." Certainly
it would not be an unlikely thing that
they should seek to confine one who
was evidently an active man among