n tt EASON. OF • truth bears th e torch in th e search for truth K iK u n . / r L u c r e t iu s . VOL. 4. - Just as the Star. NO. 43. ............... - ........... ■ - ........ 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 /-k rw -.»Il_ ■ 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 H I 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 . „ n e --------- [G o eth e’s Saying.] [T ranslation.] m ind by parent or teacher, who in Y Tells the Truth! T