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TALMAGE's SERMON.
Tenth Discourse Of the Series on
1.-THE Marriage Ring"

A sisters Innuenco In The FIRMLY -"
Moulding the Characters of Hes
Brothers-The Love of Miriam
For Moses and Aaron.
We give below the tenth discourse OF
Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage's series on 1.-THE
Marriage Ring" delivered in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, the subject being 'The Sisters
influence Upon the Brothers" The text
was:
And the sister stood afar off, to wit hat
would be done to him.-LExodus ii, 4.
DIR. Talmage said:
Princess Thermutis, daughter of Phar-
aoh, looking out through the lattice of her
bathing house, on the banks of the Nile,
saw curious boat on the river. 1t had
neither oar nor helm, and they would have
been useless anyhow. There was only one
passenger and that baby boy. But the
Mayfower that brought the Pilgrim ia
theirs to America carried not so precious
load. The boat was made Of the broad
leaves of papyrus frightened together by
bitumen. Boats were sometimes made of
that material, as we learn from Pilny and
Herodotus and Theophrastus. "Kil all
the Hebrew children born," had been
Pharaoh's order. To save her boy, Joche
bed, the mother of little Moses, had put
him in that queer boat and launched him.
His sister Miriam stood on the bank watch
ing that precious craft. She was far
enough off not. to draw attention to the
boat, but near enough to offer pro-
lection. There she stands on the
bank. Miriam the poetess, Miriam, the
quick witted, Miriam the faithful, though
very human, for in after time she became
SO mad with that very brother for marry
ing woman she did not like, that she
made great family row and was struck
with leprosy.
Miriam was a splendid sister, but had
aer faults, like all the rest CT US. How
carefully she watched the boat containing
her brother! A strong wind might upset
it. The buffaloes found there might in a
sudden plunge OF thirst sink it. Some
ravenous water fowl might swoop and
pick his eyes out with iron beak. Some
crocodile or hippopotamus crawling
through the rushes might crunch the babe.
Miriam watched and watched until
Princess Thermutis, a maiden on each
side of her holding palm leaves over her
head to shelter her from the sun, came
down and entered her bathing house.
When from the lattice she saw that boat
she ordered it brought, and when the
leaves were pulled back from the face of
the child and the boy looked up he cried
aloud, for he was hungry and frightened.
and would not even let the Princess
take him. The infant would rather
stay hungry than acknowledge any
one of the court as mother. Now Miriam,
the sister, incognito, no one suspecting her
relation to the child, leaps from the bank
and rushes down and offers to get nurse
to pacify the child. Consent is given.
She brings Jochebed, the baby's mother,
incognito, not sure of the court knowing
that she was the mother, and when Joche-
bed arrived the child stopped crying, fol-
its fright was Gained and its hunger
appeased. You may admire Jochebed
the mother, and all the ages may admire
Moses, but clap my hands in applause al
the behavior of Miriam, the faithful
brilliant and strategic sister.
"Go home," some one might have said to
I'LL toAns Iloh yOuIScll Jul bueFe
alone on the banks of the Nile, breathing
the miasms and in danger of being
attacked of wild beast or ruffian; &c
home" No; Miriam, the sister, mos
lovingly watched and bravely defended
Moses, the brother. Is he worthy of hel
care and courage? Oh, yes; the sixty
centuries of the worlds history have never
had so much involved in the arrival of any
ship at any port as in the landing of thai
papyrus boat caulked with bitumen. Its
one passenger was to be none such il
history. Lawyer, statesman, politician
legislator, organizer, conqueror, deliverer
He had such remarkable beauty in child
hood that Josephus says, when he was
carried along the road people stopped tc
gaze at him, and workmen would leave
their work to admire him. When the
King playfully put his crown upon this
boy he threw it off Indignantly and put
his foot on it. The King, fearing that thi,
might be sign that the child might We
take down his crown, applied another test
According to the Jewish legend the Kins
ordered two bowls to be put before tn,
child, one containing rubies and the othe,
burning Goals. And if he took the Goals h,
was to live, and if he took the rubies h,
was to die. For some reason the chiit
took one of the Goals and put it in hi
mouth, SO that his life was spared.
although il burned his tongue till he wa
indistinct of utterance ever after. Havins
come to manhood, he spread open til,
palms of his hands in prayer, and the Rec
Sea parted to let 2,5O0,o0o people escape
And he put the palms of his hands togeth
er in prayer, and the Red Sea closed o,
strangulated host.
His life was unutterably grand, hi
burial must be on the same scale. Go,
would let neither man nor saint, nor arch
angel, have anything to do with weavin
for him shroud or digging for him
grave. The omnipotent God left his thron
in heaven one day, and if the question wa
asked, "Whither is the king of the univers
going?" the answer was, ST an
going down to bury Moses. And tn
Lord took this mightiest of men to the to-
of hill. and the day was clear and Nose
ran his eye over the magnificent range O
country. Here, the Valley of Esdraelon
where the final battle of all nations is t
be fought; and yonder the mountains Her
mon and Lebanon and Gerizim, and hill
OF Judea; and the village of Bethlehem
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