Beaver County Democrat. (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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The Lure of
Beauty
Judith Getteth the Great
General In Her Power.
BY THE "HIGHWAY AND BYWAY**
PREACHER
scter and date of tb. book. It to probabi. I So the MOse. and
thai the several parts may bava a d a- | Wu|| her Apparel, and all her rare
Jewels, and ber maid went and laid
■oft skins on the ground for ber over
against wbere Holofernes sat at tbe
festive board. Now when Judltb came
In and sat down the heart of Holofer-
nes was ravished with her.
u n..*. Kni iiwiith feared not I "Drink now." be besought her, "and
11 net symbolic meanln*.
THK STORY.
THE night was dark, and the way I
to tbe valley lay beside tbe sen-
tries and the tents of the coarse.
femes, given the strictest commands I honor
thst her way should be safe whither-. 1|fe fg maffnlfled ln me thl. day
zxsxxTzsz *•.-
her Id the deepemte undertaking upoo !^e* look „„ ,„d dr.nk
which she had *"**'?*• . . before him what her maid had pre-
Two days before she bad comelnto RQd Holoferneg. heart was mer
the camp of tbe Assyrians after de- j* aQd he drank much raore wme
psrtlng from the city of Bethulla, and he had drunfc gt gny tJme |n
each night since then she had passed born ^ ,t con.
out of the C*™^ln th® told'the t,Qued until evening was come, and
to engage In prayer, as she told the! made hagte to depart,
gl^t fkfMiiin ha A h n atlrred bv and H**0" "but h,B tent W,thoUt' nd
All the camp had been stirred y d|gm,gged the Wftiters from the pres-
her benut, when .heh.dwme thlth ^ ^ b|> ^ And theJr went to
er, and. as she bad come into the pres-
I will drink now, my lord, because
(Cu|>jrlB*t,im,bjT UmAhUhm. M.SKdMMt l
Based on the Apocryphal Book of
Judith, chapters 10 to 13.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC
n SERMONETTE.
This Assyrian general, Holo-
fernes, Is not the first man who
hss forgotten manhood snd duty
In the presence of s pretty face
and plunged to his ruin.
It was the lust of the man's
heart which msde him fall an
essy prey to the trap which
Judith hsd set for him.
He who sllows base passion to
fill the heart has begun the
downwsrd course which Is cor-
tsin to end In ruin If persisted In.
God has made the world beau-
tiful, he hath molded the face
and form divine and It was his
purpose that such beauty should
Inspire lofty thought and ambi-
tion. Its contemplation should
bring out the best In man. It
should turn s msn's thoughts to-
wsrd the pure and good. But
such csnnot be where msn per-
mits the lower nature to trans-
:end and rule the higher.
True chastity is not s mere
outward conformity of life to the
moral law. Jesus went deeper
snd said that a man must keep
his heart pure. That the lust
of the hesrt wss ss bsd ss the
overt act. As this test marks
the real state of a man, so It
also sets the boundary line be-
tween the sin conceived and the
sin committed.
It Is the evil thought harbored £
which becomes the evil deed
committed. James says: "Every
man Is tempted when he Is
drawn away of his own lust and £
enticed. Then when lust hath
conceived, It brlngeth forth the
sin; and sin when It Is finished
brlngeth forth death.
"As a msn thlnketh In his
hesrt, so Is he." Base thought
cannot be harbored snd not V
Chang* an* tranaform the life. O
A veneer of outward rectitude
may fool the world, but the cov-
ered sins of the hesrt cannot be
hid from God. Neither can they
be kept from honeycombing the
inner self until at last like a
festering sore they break forth
into full view.
"Unto the pure all things are
pure."
The breaking down of the
home life and the nation's life
begins when unclean, impure
thought finds lodgment In the
heart and there takes root and
grows to the full fruitage of an
9 unclean life.
jc "Keep thy heart with all dill-
o gence, for out of it are the Is-
X tues of life."
SOOOO<K>OOOO<H OO0OOOOOOOOO
Value of the Hook of Judith.-The val-
ue <>f the Book of Judith Is not
Irnspiti'il by the fart that It la
supposed to be of a fictitious
character. In fact that very fact In-
creases ttsi value as exhibiting an Ideal
type of heroism, which was outwardly
embodied In the wars of Independence.
It cannot be wrong to refer Ita origin
lo the Maccabean period, which It re-
flects not only In Its general spirit, but
even In smaller traits. But while It
seems certain that the book Is to be re-
ferred to tbe second century B. C. (175-
100 B. C.). the attempts which have been
made to fix Its date within narrower lim-
its, either to the time of the war of Al-
exander .lannaeus <105-4 11. C.), or of De-
metrius II. B. C\). rest on very In-
accurate data. It might seem more nat-
ural (as h mere conjecture), to refer It to
an earlier time (170 B. C.), when Antl-
ochus Rplphancs made his flrst assault
upon the temple. In accordance with the
views which have been given of the char-
KUMIL PASHA/5
(smAcaro wnaoEQB AM? mur"
f Uninri. had hastened thelr tent, for they were all weary
ence of Holoferne. h^ened because the feast bad been long. And
nf snnrt^niSS^fesr Jud>th wa" ,eft a,one ,n the tent' but
n«\^i. h^'1tT^ hwt I Hotoferne, ~ P «■
• "*£ «srin
JtSThThJdl kS bis wordthusfar ma,d to tand without her bedcham-
*°d he *** k®£ Tim ber and to wait for her coming forth,
thinking that she would fall Inev- every night since
Itably into his power. And for two JJJJJ JJJ «« camp Jf £ A„tyrl.
Qights now she had passedj safely out I ^ wlth wh,ch nlghtly excursion
Trom the camp Into the valley. I ^ camp the sentinels of the
Judith lifted her eyes to heaven as familiar. And to
She and ber m.ld r^acbjd a secluded a|gQ ghe gpake concernlng the
S mnV«l in OTsver la the bought matter, telling him that this night as
lai^o ^L^Uer uP°n other occa *onB he would want
0041 l°r ' to go out and seek her God In prayer.
'"■•We cenn^T i. mu.t not. fem-U"" «<>" bu' «"> DOth
Tus,slf,.;dpd<iiu.sii
talked with him that I was pleading [or Jer And^..di h
for my people and not for him. Yea, n the tent of Holofernes^ And Judith
I did tell him the truth when I said came softly and stood by the place
that our nation shall not be punished, where Holofernes lay In his d™*en
neither can sword prevail against U «eP, and lifting^ her eyes to heaven
them, except they sin against their breathed this prayer:
God. And even now our city Is sit- ° Lord God of a" ^^rlr
ting ln sackcloth and aahes and pray- thlspresent ******^ of mine
Ing unto God for deliverance which bands for the exaltation of Jerusalem,
with his help I will bring to pass." for now is the time to help thine In-
"It Is even so as as thou dost say." herltance. and to execute mine enter-
responded the maid, fervidly. "But priaes to the destruction of the ene-
if thou couldest see the devouring eye mie" wblch are risen against us
with which Holofernes beholdeth Then reaching up she took from the
thee thou wouldst know that he pur-1 wall of the tent the great sword of
poseth no gc^S for tZZ Holofernes, and then again lifting her
"Yea, that which thou speakest is heart In prayer she cried.
no doubt true, and It Is therein that "Strengthen me. O Lord God of
we must hope that God will send de- Israel, this day
liverance. For the baseness of the And with the words fihe
man proves his very weakness and mightily, being strengthened by God.
gives me the cause I seek against and she took away the head of Holef-
?, .. I ernea, and going forth she gave It to
• And may the Lord keep thee In the her maid who was waiting, and
midst of such peril" responded the I she put It in a bag. Thus they set
maid. "Come," she 'added. "It Is well forth through the camp as had been
IJlJ ' ~,tur^ •• their wont on other nights, and no
In the fourth day Holofernes made thought was given concerning the
a feast to his own servants only and matter by tbe guards
died none of the odlcer. to the b.n So they pae.ed n tte.r Jonrne, .nd
auet saying to Bagoas, the eunuch, encompassed the valley and went on
who'had charge over all that he had: up the mountain to the gates of Beth-
"Go now, and persuade this Hebrew I ulia.
woman which is here with ua ln the
cauip that she come unto us, and eat
and drlnh«lth . Por « her. ^
not to ourMlvee, ihe will Inuih ua to .. w„ ltl„„k ,h„„ th„ thh,
scorn." 1
Then Bagoas -went from the pres-
ice of Holofernes and came to
Af?ftOP£D riOTOR-CAR* WITH QUfCK
riRirtG OUfhS
Prayer.
Most gracious Lord, we thank*thee
our
We thank thee that thine ear
Is ever open to the cry of our need
and that thine arm is ever out-
, H . . .. - stretched to save. Draw us within the
Judith and said: , f to shadow of the secret place that we
Let not this fair damsel fea refregh our BOUiB an<| go forward with
come to my Lord, and to be honored |ew hope and endeavor living and
ln his presence and drink wine, and I aborJng fw thg ,nteregtg of thy
be merry with us at the feast. glory. Help us to keep our heartB
Judith sat silent for a moment, but and open to the in-pouring of
thought within her heart: . .. thy Holy Spirit and strengthen us
not the fourth day, and was not the | „ , j .v. ..h .11
deliverance which I was to work to
come ere
Lord is with me to deliver, and this
now Is the opportunity I seek." Thus
Judith mused, and then lifting ber
face, upon which a beautiful light
glowed the very reflection of the hope
which burned within her breast, she
aald to the eunuch:
"Who sin I now, that I should gain-
say my Lord? 8urely whatsoever
pleaseth him 1 will do speedily, and It
shall be my Joy unto the day of my
death."
that we endure through all trial and
w!f'c° A 7"e° Yet* the I learn th* Purposes of love. Cleanse us
the fifth had gone. Yet. the| from (au]tg ^ daUy „ft hlgh.
er our trust that we yield ourselves
to thee and lean not unto our own
understanding. Let thy light shine
upon us through all our way. guiding
us at last unto the greater Joys of
needless day. with Christ in the King-
dom of Love.
The Loving Spirit.
"This is our Lord's answer to the
question, "How shall I Inherit eternal
life?" The answer Is, "Love as the
Samaritan did." You will not receive
eternal life as the reward of doing so,
in the sense that, having now helped
men and sacrificed for them, you Bhall
enter into an eternity ln which you
may cease doing so, and live In some
other relation to them. Not so. But
by loving men thus you hereby enter
into that state of spirit and that rela-
tion to your fellow men which Is eter-
nal life, the only eternal relation pos
Bible. What more can you be asked
to do than to love those you have to
do with? it is that which will alone
enable you to fill nil duty to them.
You need not ask, What is due to this
man or that, how much service, how
much assistance, how much substan-
tial help? These are very useful ques-
tions where there Is no love, but they
nre never sufficient, and they are
therefore all summarily dismissed by
Paul In his brief rule, "Owe no man
anything, but to love one another,"—
that Is the one debt always due. never
paid off. always renewed, and tbat
covers all others. You are meant to
live happily and strongly and sweet-
ly ; the relations of society part to part
are meant to move as sweetly as the
finest machinery, and love alone can
accomplish this. It Is a mere groping
after harmony and order and social
well-being that we are occupied with
while we try to adjust class to class,
nation to nation, man to man, by out-
ward laws or defined positions."—Mar-
cus Dods, O. D.
The Power That Dominates.
A baby's hand may be mightier than
steel chains. A line or two In the
trembling hand-writing of an aged
mother will take a man where a regi-
ment could not drive him. As things
these are nothing; as forces In our
lives they may be Incalculable. Some-
tnlng lies back of them that appeals
to and moves something that Ilea back
In us. Deep answers to deep.
Aspiration, gratitude, love sympathy
repentance, and consciousness of Im
perfection, these sre all facts In our
lives. You may show that tbey have
uo tangible basts; no scalpel may find
them; aualysla may disprove them,
There Is no man so high that the
lowest creature may not be his
teacher.
but they simply are and uo life can ig-
nore the inner life ln which they con-
sist.
The activities of this spirit within
are to be reckoned with ln the af-
fairs of our lives. We need to take
account of them at least as much as
we take account of the forces and
atoms of the outer universe. The
power within, the will of man, domi-
nates the world without. What you
are and what you make of life depends
on what you are within.
The life needs to take deep draughts
from the fountains that rise back ln
the mysterious unknown, to touch the
life that lies beyond our own. to feel
the reality of the unseen and lntangl
ble. to grasp the threads of the world
that stretches beyond our dust and
to make the real not only endurable
but. even In Its pain, glorious by the
hopes that are cherished within.
Wisdom's worth and wlnaomeness,
her pleasantness and peace, are
known only to those who walk her
way.
Short weight, long woe.
' I regard Klamll Pasha as one of the
most Interesting and Influential men
In the Ottoman omplre, writes Gen. Z.
T. Sweeney of Indiana, ex-consul gen-
eral to Turkey. At different periods
he has been the grand vixler for more
than a quarter of a century. At pres-
ent he is somewhat in the shadow,
having fallen between the upper and
the nether millstones of his strong de-
sire for Improvement, which made him
until lately the champion of the
Young Turk party, and bis Intense loy-
alty to Abdul Hamld Khan, which
caused him to refuse to go far enough
to satisfy the desires of tbe Young
Turk party. He was born a Hebrew,
but early ln life embraced the Mo-
hammedan faith, and has ever since
been a most Intense and ardent fol
lower of the prophet He was grand
vizier at the time I represented the
United States at the Ottoman porte,
and I regard him as one of tbe ablest
and most evenly balanced diplomats
with whom I ever came In contact He
seeks to have a thorough knoweldge of
all the countries of the world and
their varied customs. I came In con'
tact with him often, and frequently to
my own humiliation. A few illustra-
tions will serve to show his wonder-
ful grasp of things.
While I was at Constantinople
young lady (an American missionary)
was teaching a school In an Interior
town several hundred miles from the
capital. Among other things, she
taught the little children the old
song. "Am I a soldier of the cross, a
follower of the Lamb, and shall I fear
to own his cause, or blush to speak
his name?" A policeman passing by
tho school house heard it and he pro-
ceeded to adjourn tbat school, sending
the children home and Informing the
teacher that she could teach no long-
er. Appeal was at once made to me
to try and secure the opening of the
school again. I visited the grand vlt-
ier and laid the matter before him
and appealed to the capitulations
which granted rights to our mission-
aries in the country, and protested
with a due amount of cautious ve-
hemence against what 1 termed an
outrage upon American rights. The
grand vizier listened very patiently
and considerately and pondered the
matter for several minutes after I had
concluded; he finally turned to me
with a smile and remarked: "Excel-
lency, suppose our people should
send some Mohammedan missionaries
to the United States and gather your
little children Into schools and teach
them to sing: 'Am I a soldier of the
crescent, a follower of the prophet?"
how would your people feel about it?"
1 saw that he had the better of me
diplomatically, and 1 had to go into a
long dissertation concerning the d!
vorce of church and state in the
United States, and tbat tbe song she
had taught the children to sing had
no political significance whatever, but
I really felt that our people would not
submit to such a proceeding on the
part of the Turks. I am glad to add,
however, that six weeks after, tbe
sch(*>l was permitted to open and con-
tlnu« as before.
On another occasion I went to see
him In behalf of an Armenian natural-
ized American citizen. This man had
sent word to a Mohammedan commu-
nity that he was going to go over and
preach to them. They replied that
they were living in peace and har-
mony and enjoyed their faith in per-
fect unity, and they did not care to
have him visit them on such a mis
sion, but he persisted and finally went
over and began to preach upon the
streets. They endured It for a day
or two, but one night a band of men
went to his stopping place and took
him out Into the darkness and wore
out several good sized switches upon
him, and told him to leave town and
never return. He Immediately ap-
pealed to me for help, and I made my
protsnt to the grand vizier. He re-
plied In his usual suave manner: "Ex-
cellency, that Is a wild, uncivilised
community. It Is more than 1,000
miles from Constantinople, and we
have but little authority over those
rud« people. Can't you persuade your
citizen to stay away rrom such places,
and not disturb them, especially In
K/AM/L PASHA
view of the fact that they do not wish
him to visit them?" 1 thought I would
use a little of what we call "Amer
lean bluff." and so I replied: "Excel
lency, Is it possible tbat there is a
spot within tbe realms of Abdul
Hamld Khan, the lord of lords, the
prince of princes, the king of kings,
(and IB or 20 other Imposing titles
which he assumed) where he Is pow-
erless to protect human beings from
violence and lawlessnessr* Tbe grand
vixler listened very carefully, and aft-
er a deliberate pause, replied: Ex-
cellency. If I have read the history of
your country aright, there Is out la
your western borders a savage and
lawless class of people, whom you call
Indians; is It always possible for your
own great government to protect peo-
ple from violence and lawlessness
among those Indians?" I saw at once
that he hsd the better of the argu-
ment. and 1 began hedging for a
compromise, and finally persuaded
him to allow my American citizen to
go back to the village and have the
calmakam (mayor) make him a pub-
lic apology In behalf of the citizens,
which was done. I then wrote my
American citizen that if be went back
to tbat place again and got into trou-
ble. not to bother me with It; that 1
would pay no attention to any further
complaints concerning ill treatment
from that village.
These Illustrations only serve to
establish the ract that the men at
the head of the Ottoman government
are wise men; broad-minded men; and
able diplomats, i'hey never could have
retained their position among na-
tions without sucL leaders. I regard
Abdul Hamld as a very able states
man; a man of pure life and Integrity
of character. His drawback has been
that he is under the influence of a re-
ligion which teaches him that it is
right to kill men who differ from him
In faith, and It is this that has made
him a monster of cruelty in the eyes
of the civilized world. He Is a pa- -
trlot In national affairs and a fanatic
in religious affairs, and he is thor-
oughly honest ln both. I am glad that
he has been deposed, and I trust that
his successor will be neither so pa-
triotic nor religious from the Ottoman
standpoint, because the more such
patriotism and religion he has. the
more despotic and cruel will be his
reign.
Travel in Turkey Is attended with
many dangers and drawbacks. There
are no hotels, such as we have, in the
Interior. The best that can be ex-
pected is khans, which would corre-
spond to an old-fashioned wagon-yard
in this country. 1 have often stopped
for the night in a strange town and
secured a room in a khan. I would
then make a bargain with a woman to
bring me a bed and pillows; another
to bake me a chicken, and still an*
other to bring bread, butter and cof-
fee, and before that dinner was con-
cluded would find myseslf dealing
with at least a half dozen purveyors.
A Sllghjt Misunderstanding.
An elderly lady who was suing a
railroad company for slight Injuries
sustained ln an accident went to her
lawyer's office one morning to lesrn
of the progress of the case. The law-
yer had notified the company of tho
action, and the letter agreed to com-
promise If the plaintiff would meet
them half way.
When the lady sent her name Into
the lawyer tbe office boy returned with
the question:
"Mr. Breef wants to know what
you'll take?'
"That's very considerate of Mr.
Breef," repllc' the lady. "And. If It's
all the same to him, I'll have a small
glass of sherry."—Llpplncott'a.
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