"Servants, be obedient to your masters," is the salutation of the most merciful God to the slave-mother bending over her infant's grave.
"Servants, be obedient to your masters," is the salutation to a man endeavoring to escape pursuit, followed by savage blood-hounds, and with his eye fixed upon the northern star. This book ought to be read in the schools, so that our children will love liberty.
What does this same book say of the rights of little children? Let us see how they are treated by the "most merciful God."
"If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them.
"Then shall his father and his mother lay hold of him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place.
"And they shall say unto the elders of his city, this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
"And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear." (Deut. xxi, 18-21.)
Abraham was commanded to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice, and he intended to obey. The boy was not consulted.
Did you ever hear the story of Jephthah's daughter? Returning him Jephthah said:
"And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, if thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,