Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 June 1890 — Page 9
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THE JOURNAL.
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1850.
Charley Roberts Railroading. Terre Haute News: Charley Roberts, who was sent to the penitentiary for seven years for burglarizing the Shirk residence, near Montezuma, Parke county, sinoe his release from Jeffersonville has been braking on the Louisville & New Albany railway and lives at Danville.
-a Peather Beds for Everybody. S. J. Beach has shipped
6,900
pounds
dark chicken feathers east over the Big Four. These are off of 44,069 hens dressed here since Jan. 1, the weight of which was 212,379 pounds, at an average oost of 6} cents per pound would be $15,754.63 paid for the chickens alone, besides those bearing white feathers.
Center Oliurch Ohoir.
G. F. Hughes, Mrs. A. B. Anderson and Mm. O. L. Thomas have resigned from Center church choir, their resignations all taking effect at the beginning of tho August vacation. Miss Mabel McClelland will succeed Mrs. Anderson, Miss Ora Moffett will succeed Mrs. Thomas but Mr. Hughes' successor has not yet been chosen.
Grab bs-Pletclier Case Decided. The case of B. F. Orabbs, administrator, against A. J. Fletcher for the possession ot the estate of the late C. J. Fletcher has Anally been settled. Judge Snyder has decided in favor of the plaintiff, turning over the property to him with the exception of one horse. Tho judge decided, however, that the defendant was entitled to full pay for all work done.
A Oententarian.
Aunt Cassio Ketcham, who at present is making her home at Zack Williams', is nearly one hundred years old. She was born a slave in Maryland on the 15th of October, 1790, is a hale and hearty old lady and bids fair to pal's her hundredth milestone and many more besides. Except Mr. Krug, who is her senior by about one month, she is the oldest person in the city. 'i
Died at 104 Tears of Age. 4 Aunt Clarissa Higgins died at Parkersburg on June 23, aged 104 years. The deceased was a colored woman and came to this Stato from Kentucky in 1830 with the father of J. W. Ramsey, of this city. She was once apart of the estate of Mr. Ramsey's grandfather but he freeing his chattels this old servant and her children accompanied the family of his son to Parkersburg, Indiana, where she has since resided.
Letter List.
Tho following is a list of letters remaining uncalled for in the Orawfordsville postmaster for the week ending June 24, 1890. Persons calling for the same will please say "advertised." Brant Wm King Charley Conner Mrs Lewellen James Clark Mattie Miller Fouts Moore S A Georgo Isaac Massey Miss Mabel Garrett Mrs Rachel Mesbet Hall Willard Murry Fjtf Hitch Orell Powell Newton Harris O SouthardMrsAml'a Heskett Mrs Mollie Walters Mrs Dell Hutchinson Mrs CA Whitmore Emmet.
J. R. BONNELL, Postmaster.
Real Estate Transfers.
A Deer 1o J.C Culnno 80 acres in Itrowntp .$ 3,000 Lontf to It Diddle lit lot in Ladoga 1,200 A! HarshtmrtfortoH Biddle 2 out lots to Ladoga 100 Caroline A Brings to Belle Patterson lot in city (iOO W Darter toTlios Houlehan lot in city 1,500 W TWhlttlngton to GeoW Bay less et al 21 acres in Brown tp 525 fll Hiirsliburger to Laura A Smith lot in Ladoga 50 .T Brown ot al to Wand HS Mc-
Keen lot in city 14,000 Jos Milligan to E & ME Smith lot in city 350 SN Wurbritton to A Sorvlea lot In
New Market. 125 McMaken & Davis toW Darter 3 lots in city 2.010 Sarah S untie to E & W Honecker lot in Darlington 800 Jane Benellel et alto Isaac Davis lot in city 3,700
13 transfers. Total $27,860
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THE TABERNACLE PULPIT
DR. TALMAGE DELIVERS A FORCIBLE SERMON FROM RUTH I, 14.
1 The History of Orpah, the Cowardly Daugliter-ln-Law, Who Faltered by the
Way—The Road to Happiness Is Full of Stumbling Stones.
BROOKLYN, June 22.—Dr. Talmuge gives another evidence of his genius in his sermon for today. The Book of Ruth has furnished the subject for many sermons, but they have naturally been concerned with the central oharacter of that beautiful story it remained for the popular Brooklyn divine to find in tho character of tho less conspicuous widow material for spiritual lessons. His text is Ruth i, 14: "Ant} they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth clave unto her." Following is the sermon:
Moab was a heathen land. Naomi is about to leave It and go into the laud of Bethlehem. She has two daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah, who conclude to go with her. Naomi tells them they hod better not leave their native land and undertake the hardship of the journey, but they will not be persuaded. They all three start out on their journey. After awhile Naomi, although she highly prized the company of her two daughters-in-law, attempted again to persuade them to go back because of the hardship and self denial through which they would be obliged to go. Ruth responds in the words from which I once discoursed to you: "Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to return from following after thee, for where thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge thy people shall be my people and thy God my God, where thou dicst will I die and there will I be buried the Lord do so to me and more also If aught but death part thee and me." Not so witn her sister Orpah. Her determination had already been shaken. The length and peril of the journey began to appall her, and she had worshiped the gods of Moab so long that it was hard to glvo them up. From that point Orpah turned back, the parting being described in the words of my text: And they lifted up their voice and wept again and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her.
ORPAH'S COMPASSION FOR NAOMI. Learn from this story of Orpah that some of those who do not leave the Moab of their iniquities are persons of fine susceptibility. It was compassion for Naomi, in her widowhood and sorrow, that led Orpah to start with her toward Bethlehem. It was not because of any lack of affection for her that she turned back. We know this from the grief exhibited at parting. I do not know but that she had as much warmth and ardor of mature as Ruth, but she lacked the courage and persistence of her sister. That there are many with as fiqe susceptibility as Orpah who will not take up their cross and follow Christ is a truth which needs but little demonstration. Many of those who have become the follower? .ji Jesus have but very little natural impressibility. Grace often takes hold of the hardest heart and the most unlovely character and transforms it. It is a hammer that breaks rocks. In this Christ ofton shows his power. It wants but little generalship to conquer a flat country, but might of artillery and heroism to take a fort manned and ready for raking cannonade.
The great captain of our salvation has forced his way into many an armed castle. I doubt not that Christ could have found many a fisherman naturally more noble hearted than Simon Peter, but there was no one by whose conversion he could more gloriously have magnified his grace. The conversion of a score of Johns would not have illustrated the power of the Holy Ghost as much as the conversion of one Peter. It would have been easier to drive twenty lambs like John into the fold than to tame one lion like Peter. God has often made some of his most efficient servants out of men naturally unimpressionable. As men take stiff and unwieldy timbers, and under huge handed machinery bend them into the hulk of great ships, thus God has often shaped and bent into his service the most unwieldy natures, while those naturally Impressionable are still in their unchanged State.
COMMUNION WITH GOD.
Oh, how many, like Orpah, have warm affections and yet never become Christians! Like Orpah, they know how to weep, but they do not know how to pray. Their fineness of feeling leads them into the friendships of the world, but not into communion with God. They can love everybody but him, who is altogether lovely. All other sorrow rends their heart, but they are untouched by the woes of a dying Christ. Good news fills them with excitement, but the glad tidings of great joy and salvation stir not their souL Anxious to i-what is right, yet they rob God. Grato.Lfor the slightest favors, they make no return to him who wrung out the last drop of blood from his heart to deliver them from going down to the pit They would weep at the door of a prison at the sight of a wicked captive in chains, but have no compassion for their own souls, over which Satan, like a grim jailer, holds the lock and key. When repulsive, grasping, un1 pathetic natures resist the story of a .viour's love it does not excite our surprise, but it is among tho greatest of wonders that so many who exhibit Orpah'a susceptibility also exhibit Orpah's impenitency.
We are not surprised that there is barrenness in adesert, but a strange thing is It that sometimes the Rose of Sharon will not grow In a garden. On a summer morning we are not surprised to find a look without any dew on it, but if going among a flock of lilies we saw In them no glittering drops we would say, "What foul sprite has been robbing these vases f" We are not surprised that Herod did not become a Christian, but how strange that the young man Jesus loved for his sweetness of temper should not have loved the Redeemer. Hard hearted Felix trembled, proud Nebuchadnezzar repented, and cruel Manassel\ turned unto the Lord but many a nature, affectionate aqd gentle, has fought successfully against divine influences. Many a dove has refused to come In the window of the ark, although finding no rest for the sole of her foot.
THIRSTING FOR THE HOLT SPIRIT. Again, the history of Orpah impresses upon me the truth that there are many who make a good starting, but after awhile change their minds and turn back. When these three mourners start from their home In Moab there is as much probability that Orpah will reach Bethlehem as that her •later Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi Will arrive there. But while these continue in the journey they commenced,. Orpah after awhile gets discouraged and turns back. This is the history of many a soul. Perhaps it was during_a revival of religion they resolved upon a Christian Ills Md made preparations to leave Moab. Be-
fow that they were indifferent to the sonpttmry churches were necessary evils. The minister almost always preached poor sermons, because they had not tho heart to hear them. They thought the bread was not good because their appetite was poor. Religion did very well for invalids and the aged, but they had no desire for it.
Suddenly a change came upon their soul. They found that something must be dono. Every night there was a thorn in their pillow. There was gall in their wine. They found that their pleasures wero only talso lights or a swump tnac riso out 01 decay and death. Losing their self control they were startled by their own prayer, "God be merciful to me a sinner." They did not suspect it, but the Holy Ghost was in their soul. Without thinking what thoy were doing they brushed tho dust off tho family Bible. Tho ground did not feel as firm under them, nor did tho air seem as bright. They tried to dam back tho flood of their emotions, but tho attempt failed and they confessed their anguish of soul before they meant to. The secret was out! Thoy wanted to know what they must do to bo saved. "on,
THAT I WERE A CHRISTIAN."
With Ruth and Naomi weeping Orpah started for the land of Bethlehem. They longed for the Sabbath to come. Straight as an arrow to tho mark the sermon struck them. Thoy thought the minister must have hoard of their case and was preaching right at them. Thoy thought the seVmon was very short, nor did thov once coil themselves up in their pew with their eyes shut and head averted with an air of unmoved dignity. Thoy began to pray with an earnestness that astonished themselves and astonished others. Shoving the plane, or writing up accounts, or walking tho street when you mi^ht have thought theh mind entirely upon the world, thoy wore saying within themselves: "Oh, that I woro a Christian!" Orpah is fully started on the road to Bethlehem. Christian friends observing tho religious anxiety of the awakened soul say: "He must certainly bo a Christian. There Is another soldier in Christ's ranks, another sick one has been cured of tho leprosy." Tho observers turn their attention anothor way, they say: "Orpah is safe enough, she has gone to Bethlehem."
Alas! alast Starting out for hoaven is a very different thing from arriving there. Remember Lot's wife. She looked back with longing to the place from which she came, ana was destroyed. Half way between Sodom and the city of refuge that strange storm comes upon her, and its salt and brimstone gather on her garments until they are so stiffened she cannot proceed, nor can she lie down because of this dreadful wrapping around her garments and limbs, and long after her life has gone she still stands there, so covered up by the strange storm that she is called a pillar of salt, as some sailor on ship's deck in tho wintry tempest stands covered with a mail of ice. Ten thousand times ten thousand men have been destroyed half Way between Sodom and the city of refuge. Orpah might as well never have started as afterward to turn back. Yet multitudes have walked in her footsteps. Go among those the least interested in sacred things, and you will find that they were once out of the land of Moab. Every one of them prayed right heartily and studied his Bible and frequented the sanctuary, but Lot's wife looked back wistfully to Sodom, and Orpah retreated from the company of Ruth and Naomi. It is an impressive thought that after Orpah had gone so far as actually to look over into the land of Bethlehem she turned back and died In Moab. "THEY LIFTED UP TnEIR VOICE AND WEPT."
Again, let our subject Impress upon ns the truth that those who have once felt it their duty to leave their natural stato cannot give up their duty and go back to hardness of heart without a struggle. After Orpah had thoroughly made up her mind to go back to the place from which sho started sho went through the sad scene of parting with Ruth and Naomi. My text says, "Thoy lifted up their voice and wept." Ah, my hearer, it requires more decision ana perseverance to stay away from the kingdom of God than to enter it. Although she did not know it, Orpah passed through a greater struggle in turning back into tne land of Moab than would have been necessary to take her clear through to Bethlehem. Suppose you that those persons who have remained in their evil ways have had no struggle? Why, they have been obliged to fight every inch of their way.
The road to death is not such easy traveling as some ministers have been accustomed to describe it. From beginning to end it hi fighting against the sharp sword of the Spirit. It is climbing over the cross. It is wading through the deep blood of the son of God. It is scaling mountains of privilege. It is wading through lakes of sorrow. It is breaking over communion tables and baptismal fonts and pulpits and Bibles. It is wedging one's self through between pious kindred who stand before and press us back and hold on to us by their prayers even after we have passed them in our headlong downward career. No man ought .to think of undertaking to go back into Moab after having come within sight of Bethlehem unless he have a heart that cannot be made to quake, and a sure foot that will not slip among infinite perils, and an arm that can drive back the Son of God, who stands In the center of the broad road spreading out his arms and shouting into the ear of the thoughtless pilgrim, "Stop! stopl"
CHRISTIANITY IS A SOLEMN THING.
We talk about taking up the cross and following Jesus, but that cross is not half so heavy as the burden which the sinner carries. It is a very solemn thing to be a Christian, but it is a more solemn tiling not to he a Christian. There are multitudes who, afraid of the self denials of the Christian, rush into the harder self denials of the unbeliever. No yoke but Christ's, however tight and galllngl Orpah goes bank to her idolatries, but she returns weeping, and all who follow her will find the same sorrows. Just in proportion as gospel advantages have been numerous will be the disturbance of the heart that will i\ot come to Christ.
The Bible says in regard to the place where Christ was buried: "In tho midst of the garden there was a sepulcher and in the midst of the most flowery enjoyments of the unpardoned there is a chilliness of death. Although they may pull out the arrows that strike their soul from the Almighty's quiver, there remain a sting and a smarting. If men wrench themselves away from Christ they will bear the mark of his hand by which he would have rescued them. The pleasures of the world may give temporary relief from the upbraidings of conscience, but are like stupefying drugs that dull the pain only temporarily. Ahab has a great kingdom, and you would think he ought to be happy with his courtiers and chariots and palaces, yet ho goes to bed sick because Naboth will not sell him his vineyard. Haman is prime minister of the greatest nation in the world, and yot one poor man who will not bow the head makes him utterly miserable. Herod monopolizes the most of the world's honor, and yet is thrown into a rage because they
say a little child i# born in Bethlehem who may after awhile dispute his authority. Byron conquered tho world with his pen, and yet said that he felt more unhappiness from tho criticism of the most illiterate reader than he experienced pleasure from the praise of all the talented.
T"K IMMORTAL SHENBTONK
In the last century In England lived the immortal Shenstone. Portions of his life wero given to tho writing of poetry, but this was not evidently the field for which nature had equipped him. His name will never be forgotton, because of tho homo which ho adorned and beautified until there probably never has been so bright a spot since tho Garden of Kden as what he loved to call "Tho Leasowes." In addition to the marvels which nature had wrought ho added the perfection of art. Arbors and terrace and slope and rustic temple and reservoir and urn and fountain here had their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put on their glory of verduro. What the greenness of deep grass, and tho foam of cascade, and the glitter of Still lake could beantv wore added. No life Jhore diligent and no soul monj ingenious than those of Shenstone, and all that gonius and diligonco wore directed to the adornment of that treasured spot. What more could ono want to make home happyf
Yet there is one muu who sits sighing in those bowers, and ousting gloomy looks upon those parks, and the mirth of leaping waterfalls makes no melody in his ear. It is Shenstone, the owner of The Leasowes. "I have lost my road to happiness," says tho despondent man. "I am angry and envious, and dojected and frantic, and disregard all present things just as it becomes a madman to do." My friends, there is no solid happiness in anything but religion. I care not how bright a homo Orpah has in Moab, when she turns away from duty sho turns away from peace. Amid the baochanalia of Belshazzar's feast and tho glitter of chalices there always will come out a handwriting on tho wall fearfully ominousi "Tekel—weighed in the balances and found wanting." When you can reap harvests off bare rocks, and gather balm out of nightshade, and make sunlight sleep in tho heart of sepulchers, and build a firm house on a rocky billow, then can an unpardoned soul find firm enjoyment amid its transgressions. Then can Orpah go back to Moab without weeping.
A0.IVS IN CHRIST DEAD IN SIN.
Again, this subject teaches that a religious choice and tho want of it frequently divide families. Ruth and Orpah and Naomi wero tenderly attached. Thoy wero all widows, and their life had been consecrated by a baptism of tears. In the fire of trial thoir affections had been forged. Together they wero so pleasantly united you can hardly imagine them separated. Yet a fatal lino is drawn dividing them from each other, perhaps forever. Naomi cannot live in a heathen country. Sho must go into Bethlehem, that there among the nious she may worship tho true GodRuth makes a similar choice, but Orpah rebels. "And they lifted up their voioe and wept again, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her." Tho history of this family of Elimeloch is the lilBtory of many families of this day.
How often it is that in a circle of relatives, while they look alike and walk alike and talk alike, there is a tremendous difference. Outwardly united in the affeotional relations of this life, they are separated in the most-important respects. Some now are the children of light and others the children of darkness. These are alive in Christ and those are dead in sin. Ruth in the land of Bethlehem, Orpah in Moab. Of the same family are David and Solomon, worshipers of the most high God, and Adonijah and Absalom, who live and die the enemies of all righteousness. Bolonging to tho same family was the holy and devout Eli and the reckless Phlneas and Hophni. Jonathan Edwards, the good, and Pierrepoint Edwards, the bad, belong to the same futnily. Aaron Burr, the dissolute, hnd a most excellent father. Dying yot immortal hearer, by the solemnity of the parental and filial and conjugal rotation, by the suoredness of tho family hearth, by the honor of tho family name, by tho memory of departed kindred, I point out tliis parting of Ruth and Orpah.
REASONS FOR REFUSING CHRIST.
Again, this subjoct suggests to mo two of the prominent reasons why peoplo refuse tho kingdom of Christ. There may have been many other reasons why Orpah left her sister and mother-in-law and went back homo, but there were two reasons which I think were more prominent than tho rest. She had been brought up in idolatries. She loved the heathen gods which her ancestors had worshiped, and though these blocks of wood and stone could not hear she thought they could hear, and though they could not see she thought they could see, and though they could not feel she thought they could feel. A new religion had boon brought to he? attention. She had married a godly man. She must often have heard hor mother-in-law talk of the God of Israel. She was so much shaken In her original belief that she concluded to leave her idolatries, but coming to the margin of tho land of Bethlehem her determination failed her and speedily she returned to her gods.
This is the very reason why multitudes of persons never become Christians. They cannot bear to give tip their gods. Business is the American juggernaut that crushes more men than the great car of the Hindoos. To it they say their morning and evening prayers. A little of Christ's religion may creep Into the Sabbath, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the days devoted to this American idol. Every hour there is a sacrifice on the altar. Home duties, health of body, manly strength and immortal affections must all burn in thin holocaust. Men act as though they could take their bonds and mortgages and saws and trowels and axes and day books with them into the kingdom of heaven. '\T
NEGLECTING RELIUIOUB DUTIES, vi
There are many who have no unholy thirst for gold, yet who ore devoting themselves to their worldly occupations with a ruinous intensity. Men of the Stock Exchange, men of the yardstick, men of the saw, men of the trowel, men of the day book, what will become ot you, if unforglven, in the great day when there are no houses to build, and no goods to sell, and no bargains to maker It is possible to devote one's self even to a lawful calling until it becomes sinful. There is no excuse on tho earth or under the earth for the neglect of our deathless spirit. Lydla was a seller of purple, yet sho did not allow her offensive occupation to keep her from becoming a Christian. Daniel was secretary of state and attorney general in the empire of Babylon, and yet three times a day he found time to pray with his face toward Jerusalem. The man who has no time to attend to religion will have no time to enter heaven.
But there are others who, while their worldly occupation has no particular fascination over them, are entirely absorbed In the gains that come to that occupation. This is the worship of Mammon. The ring of dollars and cents is the only litany they ever utter. Though la tat tit*
earth itself will not bo worth a farthing, a heap of ashes scattered in the whirlwind, thoy an) now giving their time and eternity for the acquisition of so much of it ns you might at last hold in the hollow of one hand.
Tho American Indian who save enough land to make a state out of for a string of beads mudo a princely bargain compared with tho speculation of that man who gains tho whole world and loses his own soul. How much comfort do the men t:\ke who died unforgiven ten years ago, leaving largo fortunes to their heirs? Do they ever come up to count tho gold they hoarded or walk through the mansions they built? Though they could have bought, an empire, thoy have not now as much money as you have this moment in your pocket. Solomon looked upon his palace and the grounds surrounding it, pools rimmed with gold and circling roads along which at times rushed his fourteen hundred chariots, while under the outbnuiching sycamores and cedars walked the apes and peacocks which bv the navy of lilram liad been brought from Tarshlsh, and from the window curtains with embroidered ff"ld and purple through which eamo out the thrill of harps and psalteries mingling with tho
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When Solomon saw that all these luxuries of sight and sound hnd been purchased by his wealth ho broke flprth In tho exclamation, "Money ausvvereth all things." But wo cannot receive it as literal. It cannot still the voice of conscience, It cannot drown tho sorrows of tho soul. It cannot put a bribe in the hand of death. It cannot unlock the gate of heaven The tower of Siloani fell and killed eighteen of its admirers but this idol, to whoso worship the exchanges and banks and custom houses of tho world have beeu dedicated, will fall and crush to death its thousands. But I cannot enumerate tho idolatries to which men givo themselves. They are kept by them from a religious life. "Yo cannot serve God and Mammon," and tho first thing that Christ does when he comes into the temple of tho soul is drive out the exchangers.
AFRAID OF 6EI.F DENIAL.
But it was not only tho gods of Moab that mado Orpah leave her sister and mother-in-law. She doubtless had a dread of tho hardship to which they would b'.' exposed on tho journey to Bethlehem, and Orpah was not alone in the fear. Doubtless some of you have been appalled and driven back by tho self denials of tho Christian life. The taunt of tho world, tho charge of hypocrisy which thoy would sometimes bo obliged to confront, has kept many away from tho land of Bethlehem. Thoy spend their life in counting the cost, and because a Christian Hie. demands so much courage and faith they dare not bogin to build. Perhaps th- are courageous in every other respect. They uro not
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in presence of any danger except that, of trusting in the infinite mercy of Christ. The sheep are more afraid of the shepherd than of the wolves. Thoy shrink away from tle presence of Christ as though he woro a tyrant rather than a friend who stieketh closer than a brother. Thoy feel more safe in tho ranks of tho enemy wh^ro they must suffer infinite defeat than in the army of Christ which shall bo moro than conquerors through him that loved them. Mon shiver anil tremble boforo religion as though thoy wero commanded to throw their llfo away, as though it were a surrender of honor and manliness and reason and self respect and all that is worth keeping.
What has God ever dono that his mercy should bo doubted Was there ever a sorrow of his frailest child that he did not pityf Was there ever a soul that he left unhelped in tho darkness? Was there ever a martvr that he did not strengthen in the flames? Was there ever a dying man to whoso relief ho did not come at the cry of "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Aye, my •oul, what has God dono that so basely thou hast doubted'him Did ho make tho whole earth a desert? Aro all tho skies dark and storm swept? Is life all sickness?
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Why then fight against God? This day tho battle rages. Thou art armed with thy sins, thy ingratitude, thy neglects, and Christ is armed against thee, but his weapons an tears, are dying agonies, are calis to mercy, aud the battle cry wliich he this day sends over thy souls us ho rushes toward thee is "Save thee from going down to the pit, for I have found a ransom." 1 would nut envy thy victory, O hearc, if thou dost conquer, for what wilt thou do with the weapons thou hast snatched from the armed Redeemer, what with the tears, what with his dying agonies, what with his calls to ineroj Would God that Orpah would get tired of Moab' Would God that Orpah would go to Bethlehem!
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