Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-15
the SISTERS INFLUENCE
Upon Her Brother, Discourssd
Upon by DR.. Talmags.
PECULIAR DEVOTION OF A SISTER
Her AssiduOus SeIf.Sacrifcing Care and
Aid in Forming Her Brothers
Character.

/ Oc VIII loALAo5O1 ~" -
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the tenth OF
the series of his sermons on The Mar
risgs Ring" the subject being The Sis
ters Influence Upon Her Brothers" The
pastor first read and expounded chapter
in Exodus, on the crossing Of the Red Sea,
and SPOKE of the water on either aide OF
the Israelites as crystal palisades" The
hymn sung was:
| Coma, thou fount Of every blessing,
Tune my heart TO sing thy grace
The text was Exodus ii, A. "And his
sister stood afar off, to wit what would Do
done to him" Dr.. Tslmage said:
Princess Thermutis, daughter OF
Pharaoh, looking out through the lattice
Of her bathing house, on the banks OF the
Nile, saw
CURIOUS BOAT
on the river. Il had neither oar nor helm,
and they would have been useless anyhow.
There was only one passenger and that
a baby boy But the Msy6ower that
brought the Pilgrim Fathers to America
carried not so precious load. The boat
was made of the broad leaves of papyrus
tightened together by bitumen. Boats
we're sometimes made Of that material, as
we learn from Pliny and HerodotuS and
aud Theophrsstus. xiii all the Hebrew
children borp," had been Phsraons order.
To save her boy, Jochebed, the mother OF
little Moses, had put him in that queer
boat and launched him. His sister Miriam
stood on the bank watching that precious
craft. She was far enough off not to draw
attention to the boat, but near
enough to offer protection. There
abe stands on the bank. Miriam the po-
etess, Miriam the quick-witted, Miriam the
faithful, though very human, for in after
time she became 80 mad with that very
brother for marrying woman she did not
like, that she made great family row and
was struck with leprosy.
MIRIAM
was a splendid sister but had her faults
| ike all the rest Of US. How carefully she
watched the boat containing her brother
A strong wind might upset it. The butfa'
loes often found there might in sudden
plunge of thirst sink it Some rsvenous
water fowl might swoop and pick his eyes
out with iron besk. Some crocodile or
hippopotsmus crawling through the rushes
might crauch the babe. Miriam watched
and watched until Princess Thermutis,
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 thu lattice
she saw that boat che ordered it brought,
and when the leaves we're pulled back
from the face of the child aud the boy
looked up he cried aloud, Tor he was hun.
gry and frightened snd 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 suspecung her
relation to the child, leaps from the bank
and rushes down and offers 20 get q nurse
10 pacify the child Consent is given, she
brings Jochebsd, the bsbys mother, In
c0gnito. not sure OF the court knowing
thst she vas the mother, and when
Jochebed arrived the child stopped crying,
for its fright was cslmed and its hunger
sppeased. You may admire Jochebed,
the mother, and all the ages may admire
Moses, bat clap my hands in applause at
the behavior of Miriam, the faithful, bril-
liant 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
the rnissms aud in danger OF being attack.
ed of wild beasts or rufian; 60 home
No; Miriam, the sister. most lovingly
watched Gnd bravely defended Moses, the
brother. ls he
WORTHY HER CARE
and courage2 Oh, yes; the sixty ceutu.
ries O. the worlds history have never had
40 much involved AZ tie erriysl OF any
ship at auy port as In the landing or tast
pspyrus boat csulked with bitumen. Its
cne passenger was to be nonsuch in
history. LAWYER, statesman, politician,
legislator, organizer. eonGre-er, deliverer.
BE had such remarkable beauty in child
hood that Josephus says, when he was car
ried along the road people stopped to gaze
at him, and woHkmeD would leave their
work to admire him. When the king
playfully put his crown upon this boy he
threw it of indignsr tly and put his foot on
it. The king, roaring that this might
be Ei:p that the child
might yet take down hiS crown applied an
other test. According to the Jewish legend
the king ordered two bowls TO be put before
the chic, one containing rubies and the
other burning Goals. and if be took the
Goals he was to live, and if be took the ru
bies he was to die. For some reason the
child took one of tie Goals and put it in his
mouth, so tbst his life vas spared. although
it burned the tongue till he vas indistinct
of utterance ever after. Having come to
manhood, he spread open the palms of bis
hands in prayer. and the Red Sea parted to
LET two million FIVE hundred thousand peo'
pie escape. And he put the palms OF his
hGnd. together in prayer, and the Red Sea
closed on g sirsnSE.stcd host.
His life was unutterably grand, mis- DSrlsl
must be on the same scale. God would let
neither man nor saint nor srchsngel,
havs anything to DO with weaving for
him shraud o. diggin. tfr him q
grave. The omnipoteRt God LETT His
throne in heaven one DAY, snd If the ques.
ton was asked, WHITTIER is the King Of
the Universe goipgT the answer was, |
au going down to bury Moses" Aud the
ord taok ttis nightiest of men to the
ton of q hill, snd the day Ess claer, and
Noses ran bic eye ever the magnificent
range of country. Here, the valley Of
! T-.iraelon, where the final battle of all
nations is TO be iso5zzSht: and yonder, the
moUntslrs Eermon, aud Lebanon, ana
Cieriezim, snd hills OF Juiea; sn4 tbs I'll.
lsve of Bethlehem there, and the city OF
Jericho yonder, and the vast stretch OF
landscape that almost took the old law
givers breath away as be looked at it.
Aud then, without pang, as l learn
| from tho statement that the eye Of Moses
was undimmed and his natural force una
hated, God touched the great lGvsivers
ewes, and they closed; and his lungs.
snd they ceased; and his heart, and
il stopped; and commanded, saying, TO
the skies, thou immortal spirit And
then ems Divine hand yas put against the
back of Moses, snd the ether hand sgsint
the pulseless breast, and God laid him soft
" down on Mount Nebo, and then the law
| -. Gftsd IN the Almiphty's arms was