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down in T angipahoa P arish, La.,
ed from what he was taught to look
few nights ago, and am ong ’]
upon as t h e sacredest o f all books,
black men suspected of burglar
with your approval, your positive*
picked out four th a t they, the me
explicit sanction, that evil might
the calm , wise, m ajestic m ob-
He done to bring about good; that
deemed most likely to he guilt,
s e ts , for exam ple, on a thorough
PO E T IC COMMENT.
’he most treacherous and foul m u r
learning of the Ten Com m and-
and dragged Ihem out and hange
ES ! ‘ \\ ith o u t h aste, w ith o u t rest.’”
der was pleasing to God, if it serv
im en ts— not om itting the Sixth: ed to m ake way with any enem y of them ; very probably those coward
R ind th a t m otto to th y b re a s t;
i Thou eh alt do no m u rd er”—and
ly m urderers, or some of them , wer
B ear it w ith th ee as a s p e ll;
His chosen people and his true re-
in- the next breath tells the child
Storm or su n sh in e , guard it w e ll!
taught in their youth th a t Jae l di,
’’gion.
W
hat
then
would
prevent
G u ard th e flowers th a t ’round th ee bloom, th a t Jael did a righteous act wheu
a good piece of work, when she in
hat hoy become a man from doing
’Till th ey fruitful m ake th y tom b.
she m urdered Sisera! Moral agnos
veigled Sisera into her tent an,
evil
him
self
th
a
t
good
m
ight
re
H aste n o t ! L et no th o u g h tless deed
d ro v e .h e nail through Ills temples
ticism, if nothing worse, might
sult, and com forting him self
M ar for aye th y s p ir it’s speed !
I each your boys and girls th a
n atu ra lly be expected to follow
P o n d er well and know th e rig h t;
m aking him self feel good— with a
the Bible is everyw here throughout
such teaching. There is very great
O nw ard th e n , w ith all th y m ig h t.
sense
of
the
Divine
approval?
the word of God; th at God inspired
likelihood th a t som ething worse
H a ste n o t! Y ears can n e ’er atone
W
hat
would
prevent
him,
for
does follow it; likelihood verging
For one reckless action done.
crime, or sanctioned crim e, in order
example,
if
he
were
a
pious
church
close upon certainty.
to hold up one religion and pull
Rest n o t ! Life is sw eeping bv,
member,
from
sw
indling
“sinners
”
down another, or in order to a d
Go an d d a re , before you d ie;
Let me illustrate: You havfc seen
unbelievers,
hereiics,
in
o
rd
e
r
toget
S om ething useful or sublim e
to it th a t your ten or t welve-year-
vance one race of people and de-
Leave beh in d to grow w ith tim e!
the
w
herewithal
to
contribute
more
old son has gotten careful religious
«troy an o th er; teach your boys and
G lorious ’tis to live for aye,
largely
to
his
ch
u
rch
’s
support
or
i'leiri.ction, eith er a t your side or ' 8*‘ly to hl8 ch ,,rcl' ’8 support, or uirl.s th a t; fix it firm in their
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W h en th ese form s have passed away.
¡» the
the S
S unday
unday School.
School. He
H e knows,
h o «
' 8‘>m\ " ,,88i"™ rv fund to brain, p la n t it deep in their hearts
in
H aste n o t! R est n o t! C alm ly w ait!
of course, the Ten Com m andm ents’ convert the wicked h eathen? W hat - and they m ay |i ve through a
M eekly b ear th e storm s of fate ;
and the L ord’s Prayer.
He is would prevent him , having con lo n g life and never become legal
D uty t>e th y p o lar g u id e;
Do th e rig h t w hat e ’e r betide!
am iliar with the Sermon on the cluded as of course he would__ crim in als; they m ay never have to
You encourage him
I t ’’a ' i ” ™ ° ne ° f G od’8 '•» » e n answ er to tue indictm ent of a
H aste n o t! R est n ot! Conflicts p a st,— M ount.
■*ble.
W
e
l
.
,
^
e
d
a
v
h i " l ^ f,O'n eO m m it,i^
“ „y eor,
L ove shall crow n th y work at last.
grand ju ry ; but the probability, I
read tha Bible. Well, one day his
A non . (V aried.)
conscience revolts, his boyish in or a crim e against an alien people m ight almost say certain ty is, th a t
stinct for fair play is shocked, when or member of an alien race, in the they m ay go through life M oral
he opens his Bible a t the fourth name of God—contending th a t it C rim inals—cherishing sentim ents
chapter of Judges and reads about was God’s will for His people to instincts, ideas, th a t are the very
succeed, to go forw ard, and for essence of crim inality!
A C lergym an R evolts A gainst the treacherous m urder of the Cana-
In conclusion I would say to all
anite general. He comes to you other people to fail, to fall by the
th e Bible.
with his trouble, and w ants to wayside, in the struggle for ex parents and Sunday School teach
know w hat you think of th a t m u r istence; and th a t H is chosen race ers; Don’t run the risk of dwarfing,
THE BIBLE ANI) CIVILIZATION.
der, w hat your opinion is of Jael. would be recreant to D uty and Des- or blunting, or corrupting, the con
in.V, if they did not som etim e grow sciences of the young children
E x tra c ts from a serm on preached in W h at would you say to him ?
a t in all green fields of e a rth — fer com m itted to your care, by labor
St. J a m e s ’ Episcopal C h u rc h , G reenville,
W hy, supposing you shared the
tilized by the blood and the hone ing under the terrib le m istake th at
M ass., Sep. 30th, by Rev. Q uincy E w ing, common opinion, th a t it is irrelig
dust of peoples wearing d ark er skins it is your duty to ju s tify to thpir.
from th e te x t, Ju d g es iv, 17-23. (The ious to condem n an y th in g a Biblic
and serving “ other gods?”
young m inds ev erything you m av
Story of Ja e l.)
al w riter com m ends, you would
I each your boy th a t once upon a chance to read to them in the
H E R E is no telling to w hat an have to tell him th at Jael did a
tim e God inspired m urder to hold Bible. When you read about a
ex ten t the civilization of the good deed when she m urdered Si- down one race of people a n d help
world has been retarded by sera, and go on to explain th a t it forw ard an o th er; and you are pre- m eanness, a contem ptibility, an in
decency, w hether done by outcast
th a t false view of the Bible com was a good deed, because Sisera
paring him to com m it himself, heathen, or pious Hebrew— tell
mon am ong C h ristian people, which was a powerful enemy of the chosen
”ome day. or to give his sanction them th a t it is a m eanness, a con
has prevented them from seeing in people of God; becauee, had he
vllllle wlllotl
ht
to any crim e which m ight be de- tem ptibility, an indecency; and
th eir tru e light acts like th a t of , vet , he would have beer, a con-i fended w ith , he plea th a t it
th a t God had nothing to do with
Jael, the m urderess; which has e .a n t menace
their safety; he- necessary, In order to keep ,.,e Hne
m ade it seem to them necessary for cause he was not a worshiper of the sh a rp and clear between Ute supe it, except to abhor it. W hen you
find lying, or theft, or m urder
the sake of the C hristian religion w T f
’f T a " a
’ Snd the ri" rity ° f r a c a a " d 'h e inferior-
to defend, and attem p t to justify, welfare o f the worshipers of the true ity of some other. You are ore com m ended, tell them th a t lying is
lying, th a t thieving is thieving,
an y and every sort of crim e th a t God depended upon all Idolaters paring him to he able to en ter t bi
th a t m urder is m urder, in all place-’
appeared to have th e sanction of being rooted out of the land. Per- legislature and write statu tes le!
and ages; th a t no book was ever
some Biblical w riter. It is sim ply haps, and very n atu ra lly , you fining m urder, fixing the penalty
Divine enough to m ake a crim e
awful to th in k how m any times, would add, th a t God inspired Jael therefore, and describing the only
holy; and th a t in all ages and
and through w hat centuries, the to do what she did— invite Sisera ogal mode of executing it; and to
.
,
,
«««* luuue OI
It:
t. places, there has been no room in
conscience of children may have into her ten, cover him with a he a. the sam e time perfectly capa-
the Kingdom of God for thieves,
been dwarfed or blunted, by p a r m a, lie, give Inn, drink, nurse him hie of ignoring those sUtutes
or liars, or m urderers! Teach then,
brushing them aside, and getting
ents or S u n d ay School teachers, to sleep—and then m urder him l
that the Bible is the m oral word of
who have th o u g h t it th eir d u ty to
•Now, in such a case, what would “ P a lynching p arty to to rtu re to God, just to the ex ten t th a t it
justify to the young m inds any be the alm ost inevitable effect upon , d eath som e fellow-citizen of an
hears vital witness to the m oral
m eanness or wrong or crime set your boy’s character, upon his mor-1 “ inferior” race for an alleged crim e
down in the Bible, provided such al viston, supposing he accepted w hich, if proven, would mean simp-’ words, the life, the ch aracter, of
Jesus C hrist.
m eannes or wrong or crim e was your teaching and grew to m an- ly a sh o rt term In th e state prison
Teach them th at the Bible w or
done by a Biblical saint, or m inis hood w ithout outgrow ing It? W hy, for a m em ber of his own race
shiper m ay be an u tter pagan,
tered in some way to the advance would G
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Charl‘Ct,‘r
V " ry PrOb“ M i ' he m i’" ab|p
m ent o f the people who considered would he Jesuit,zed, h,s m oral vis- m urderers who broke open the ja il th a t the C hrist-follow er is the only
C hristian.
W ie D a s G e s tir u ; J u s t as th e S ta r ;
O h n e H a st,
uently dwarfed or blunted, w hat
W ith o u t h a ste ,
A b e r O hne R a st,
W ith o u t re s t,
positive moral principle can possi
D rehe sieti je d e r
L e t each th e c irc le
hly he im planted in the childish
Um d ie eig
L a st. O f his d u ty tra c e .
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[G o eth e’s Saying.]
[T ranslation.]
m ind by parent or teacher, who in
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Tells the Truth!
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