The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-07-02
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Tenth Discourse Of the Series on
aThe Marriage Ring"
Sisters Influence in the Family Ina
Moulding the Characters OF Iser
BrotYfers-The Love of Miriam
For Moses and Aaron.

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! We give below the tenth discourse oil
| Rev. T. Dewitt Ta1nage'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 W hat
| would be done.to him.-tExodus II. f.
Dr. Talmage said:
/ Princess Thermutis, daughter of Phar-
aoh, looking out through the lattice of her
bathing house, on the banks of the Nile,
saw a 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
Mayhower that brought the Pilgrim ia
theirs to America carried not so precious g
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. xiii 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 of 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 a woman she did not like, that she
made q great family ro& and was struck
with leprosy.
Miriam was q splendid sister, but had
ler 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 q
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, q 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
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 a 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, for
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 at
the behavior Of Miriam, the faithful,
brilliant and strategic sister.
"Go home," some one might have said to
Miriam. "Why risk yourself out there
alone on the banks of the Nile, breathing
attacked of wild beast or rufian; go
home" No; Miriam, the sister, most
lovingly watched and bravely defended
Moses, the brother. Is he worthy Of her
care and cowagef 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 that
papyrus boat caulked with bitumen. Its
one passenger was to be . none such in
history. Lawyer, statesman, politician,
legislator, organizer, conqueror, deliverer,
BE had such remarkable beauty in child
hood that Josephus says, when he was
carried along the road people stopped to
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 on Indignantly and put
his foot on It. The King, fearing that this
might be sign that the child might yet
take down his crown, applied another test.
According to the Jewish legend the King
ordered two bowls to be put before the
child. one containing rubies and the other |
burning Goals. And il he took the Goals he |
was to live, and II he took the rubies he |
was to die. For some reason the child |
took one OF the Goals. and put it In his |
mouth, 30 that his life was spared,
although it burned his tongue till he was
indistinct Of utterance ever after. Having |
come to manhood, he spre1d open the |
palms Of his hands in prayer, and the Red |
sea parted to let 1900. 900 people escape.
And he put the palms Of his hands toseth- |
q in prayer, and the Red Sea closed on |
strangulated host.
His life was unuttsrably grand, his |
burial must be ON the same scale. God
would let neither man nor saint, NOR arch |
angel, have anything to do with weaving
TOR him shroud Or digging for him 8
grave. The omnipotent God left his throne |
In heaven one day, and II the question was
asked, "Whithsr l. the king Of the universe
goingr the answer was, 81 am
going down to bury Mosss.n And the
Lord took this mightisst Of mon to the ton
OF hta. and the day was clear and Moses
- his eye over the magnificent range OF
country. Here, the Valley Of Ksdraelou.
where the anal battle Of an nations IL 70
Be fought; and yonder the mountains Her.
mon and Lebanon and Gerisim, and hills
OF JudeA; snd the village Of Bethlehem
there, and the city Of Jerusalem yondsr,
and the vast stretch Of landscape that
almost took the old lawgivsr's breath away
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