Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-15
INFLUENCE OF A SISTER.
TALNIAGE TELLS GIRLS HOW
TO TREAT THEIR BROTHERS

nc AnNeEBeAs OF the AWO lQSuLACAl-
EVIL Effects OF "a sisters Jealousy.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, March 14.-Rev. Il.
De Witt Talmage, d. D., preached to-day
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle the tenth Of
his series Of sermons on "The NJ arriage
Ring" the subject being 'srhe Sisters In
fluenee 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 side of
the Israelltes as ''crystal palisades"
The hymn sung was:
''Come, thou fount OF every blessing,
Tune my heart TO sing thy grace"
The text was Exodus H., A: "And his
done to him." DIR. Talmage said:
Princess Thermutis, daughter of
Pharaoh, looking out through the
lattice of her clearinghouse 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 any
how. There was only one passenger and
that baby boy. But the Mayfiower that
brought the Pilgrim fathers to America
carried not 80 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 Pliny and Herodotus and
TheophFastus. "Kill all the Hebrew
children born" had been Pharaoh's or
der. To save her boy, JOcnebed, 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 protection.
There she stands on the bank. Miriam
the poetess, Miriam the quick-witted,
Miriam the faithful, though very human,
for in aftertime she became so mad with
that very brother for marrying a woman
she did not like, that she made a great
family row and was struck with lep-
rosy.
Miriam was a splendid sister, but had
her faults like all the rest Of us. How
carefully she watched the boat containing
her brother! A strong wind might upset
it. The butfaloes often found there might
in a sudden plunge OF thirst sink it. Some
rAYenOus water fowl might swoop and
pick his eyes OUT with iron beak. Some
crocodile or hippopotamus crawling
through the PUSHES might cTanch the babe.
Miriam watched and watched until Prin-
cess Thermutis, a maiden on each side of
uCl 1DlulUS palm AGdN66 VNtI uGI nEdl W
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 uD be
cried aloud, for he was hungry
and frightened, and would not even let
the Princess take MIN. The infant would
rather stay hungry tdan acknowledge any
one of the court as mother. Now Miriam,
the sister incOgnito, no one suspectlng her
relation to the child, leaps from the bank
and rushes down and offers TO get nurse
to pacity the child. Consent was given,
she brings Jochebed, the baby's mother
incognIto, not sure of the court knowing
that she was the mother, and when JOch-
ebed arrived the child stopped crying, for
it's fright was Gained and its hunger ap-
peased. You may admire JOchebed, the
mother, and all the ages may admire
Moses, but l clap my hands in applause
at the behavior of Miriam, the faithful,
brilliant and strategic sister.
$50 home" some one might have said
to Miriam. "Why risk yourself out there
alone on the banks OF the Nile, breathing
the miasma and in danger of being at
tackled of wild beast or ruffian; go
hOmew No; Miriam, the sister, most
lovingly watched and bravely defended
Moses, the brother. Is he worthy her
care and courage? Oh, yes; the sixty
centuries of the worlds history have new
er had so much involved in the arrival
of any ship at any port as in the landing
of that papyrus boat eaulked with btu
men. Its one passenger was to be a
nOnsuch in history. Lawyer, statesman,
politician, legislator, organizer, conquer
er, deliverer. He had such remarkable
beauty in childhood that JOsephus saws,
when he was carried along the road peO-
pie stopped to gaze at him. and wOrkmen
would leave their work to admire
him. When the king playfully put mis-
crown upon this boy be threw it
off indignantly and put his foot on IT,
The king, fearing that this might be a
sign that the child might yet take down
his crown, applied another test. Accord
ing to the Jewish legend the king ordered
two bowls 60 be put before the child, one
containing rubies and the other burning
GOALS. And II he took the Goals he was TO
live, and If he took the rubles be was to
die. For some reason the child took one
of the Goals and put it in its mouth, so
that his lie was spared, although IL
burned the tongue till he was indistinct
OF utterance ever after. Having come to
manhood, be spread open the palms Of his
hands In prayer, and the Red Sea parted
people escape. And he put the palms OF
his hands together in prayer, and the Red
Sea closed on a strangulated host.
His lite was unutterably grand. his bu-
rial must be on the same scale. God
would let neither man, nor saint, nor
archanRel, have anything 10 do with
weaving for him a shr0ud or digging for
him grave. The omnipOtent God LETT
His throne in heaven one day, and II the
question was asked, "Whlther is the King
fthe Universe going2" the answer was, 81
am going down to bury Moses" And the
Lord took this mIghtiest OF men 20 the TOP
of hill, and the day was clear, and Mo-
ses ran his eye over the magnifcentrange
of country. Here, the Valley Of Esdrael-
on, where the final battle of all nations is
10 be fought; and yonder, the mountains
HermOn and Lebanon and Geriz m and
hills OF Judea; and the village OF Bethle-
hem there, and the city Of Jericho yOn-
der, and the vast stretch OF landscape
that almost took the old law-giyer's
breath away as he looked at IL.
And then, without pang, as /
learn from the statement that the eye OF
Moses was undlmmed and his natural
force undated, God touched the great
lawgiver'e eyes, and they closed; and his
lungs, and they ceased; and his heart,
and II stopped; aud commanded, saying,
''ro the skies, thou immortal spiritw
And then one Divine hand wasput against
the back Of Moses, and the other hand
against the pulseless breast. and God laid
him softly down on Mount Nebo. and then
the law-Riyer, lifted in the Almighty's
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