Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-02
IMAGES SERMON.
n;scourse Of the Series on
,nha Marriage Ring"

.The Marriage 1'1"s
- influence In the Family In
a the Characters of Her
.,.ors-rhe Love of Miriam
Far Moses and Aaron.
o;re below the tenth discourse Of
neWitt Talmage's series on 1.-THE
Ring" delivered in the Brooklyn
se,a the subject being "The Sisters
Tnon the Brothers." The text
-, s,ater stood afar off, to wit what
Wv done to him.-[Exodus il, 4.
Talmage said:
lass Thermutis, daughter of Phar-
Ling out through the lattice of her
W. house, on the banks of the Nile,
s,rious boat on the river. It had
~ oar nor'helm, and they would have
,-ssless anyhow. There was only one
noer and that a baby boy. But the
aver that brought the Pilgrim fa-
n America carried not so precious a
The boat was made of the broad
Of papyrus frightened together by
an. Boats were sometimes made of
moterial, as we learn from Pilny and
faotus and Theophrastus. "Knl all
Hsbrew children born" had been
(,oh,s order. To ave her boy, Joche-
The mother of little Moses, had put
II that queer boat and launched him.
lister Miriam stood on the bank watch
that precious craft. She was far
oh off not to draw attention to the
but near enough to offer pro-
I'm, There she stands on the
Miriam the poetess, Miriam, the
4. witted, Miriam the faithful, though
! human, for in after time she became
lad with that very brother for marrya
4 woman she did not like, that she
L a great family row and was struck
} leprosy.
iriam was a splendid sister, but had
faults, like all the rest CT US. How
Lfullv she watched the boat containing
brother! A strong wind might upset
The buffaloes found there might in a
den plunge OF thirst sink it. Some
euous water fowl might swoop and
k his eyes out with iron beak. Some
codile or hippopotamus crawling
ough the rushes might crunch the babe.
lam watched ard watched until
ncess Thermutis, a maiden on each
of her holding palm leaves over her
ID to shelter her from the sun, came
yn and entered her bathing house.
len from the lattice she saw that boat
ordered it brought, and when the
yes we're pulled back from the face of
child and the boy looked up he cried
for he was hungry and frightened.
would not even let the Princess
e him. The infant would rather
y hungry than acknowledge any
of the court as mother. Now Miriam,
sister, incognito, no one s%uspecting her
ation to the child, leaps from the bank
rushes down and offers to get a nurse
pacify the child. Consent is given.
E brings Jochebed, the baby's mother,
,ognito, not sure of the court knowing
she was the mother, and when Joche-
d arrived the child stopped crying, for
fright was Gained and its hunger
peased. You may admire Jochebed,
mother, and all the eyes may admire
but l clap my hands in applause at
behavior of Miriam, the faithful,
liant and strategic sister.
Go home," some one might have said to
"Why risk yourself out there
he on the banks Of the Nile, breathing
miasms and in danger of being
acked of wild beast or rufian; 70
me-" No; Miriam, the sister, most
Ingly watched and bravely defended
SEES, the brother. Is he worthy of her
and courage? Oh, yes; the sixty
turtles of the worlds history have never
so much involved in the arrival of any
at any port as in the landing of that
yrus boat caulked with bitumen. Its
p~assengeri was to be a none such in
Dry. Lawyer, statesman, politician,
slator, organizer, conqueror, deliverer,
such remarkable beauty in child
d that Josephus says, when he was
led along the road people stopped to
at him, and workmen would leave
+ work to admire him. When the
8 playfully put his crown upon this
he threw it off Indignantly and put
loot on it. The King, fearing that this
Mt be a sign that the child might yet
down his crown, applied another test.
ordlng to the Jewish legend the King
red two bowls to be put before the
one containing rubies and the other
ing GOALS. And if he took the Goals he
to live, and if he took the rubies he
to die. For some reason the child
one of the Goals and put it in his
SO that his life was spared,
ough it burned his tongue till he was
stlnct of utterance ever after. Having
g to manhood, he spread open the
OF his hands in prayer, and the Red
parted to let $500, 900 people escape.
WV PoAAAAo VI LIS udlluS UOsObu.
prayer, and the Red Sea closed on
ngulated host.
S life was ~unutterably grand, his
al must be on the same scale. God
ia let neither man nor saint, nor arch
u. nave anything to do with weaving
MN a shroud or digging for him a
e. The omnipotent God left his throne
eaVen one day, and if the question was
whittier is the king Of the universe
g" the answer was, 81 am
g down to bury Moses" And the
took this mightiest of men to the top
NIL. and lie day was clear and Moses
MS eye over the magnificent range of
Here, the Valley of Esdraelon,
re the final battle of all nations is to
yonder the mountains Her.
and Lebanon and Gerizim, and hills