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The SECTION or HIsToRY.-Chaps. $40
PSALMS 7sii-iS; io5:c33d
NEW TKsrAMKEr LIcHr.-The story In Acts
To IS, Heb ii.c7 Jesus years Of preporation
Luke s;23: John the BAPTIST Luke lisa OPP
roscrs OF Moses, Tim ss
TnME-The call OF Moses. according 10 our
common chronology, was IN the summer OF IA
q ii93. nearly forty years after he left Egypt
| tAcfs 1:dol u3rugsch aud others mako tho
date about II. @ 1901
PLACE Tho home OF Moses was In the land
OF the Midlanites. probably In the vicinity OF
Sherm az the southern point OF the triangle OF
Arabia, between thu tvs arms OF the Red sea.
The burning bush was on Mt. Sinai Tho
mountain of God" IA tho Horeb mountains.
Horeb was probably the cluster OF mountains.
.ho mountainous district. of which Sinai was
one morntain Tho namos are 0ften used inter
caangenbiy
Tnr FIELD or ZoAN where Moses mot Phar.
aoh and announced the plaques was 1lpis.
lately discovered near tho mouth OF the Tdhltic
branch OF the Nile.
PREPARATIONS FOR LIFE WORK.
Moses Punishment for Forty Years
in Arabia.-Whcn Moses fled from
Pharaoh in Egypt, no camc 10 the
borders OF the Midinnites, In the south
eastern part OF tho Arabian triangle.
where was we'll for the watering of
the fioclSs. While Moses was sitting by
tho well the seven daughters OF
Raguel. or Reuel, also called Jethro,
tho priest and shcllS OF the Midianite
tribe occupying that region, came TO
water their fathers Aoclss They had
drawn considerable water, when some
rude shepherds came mp with their
flocis and drove them away. and took
possession OF the troughs. Upon this
Moses gallantly came % the rescue,
and compelled the shepherds 10 stand
aside while he watcred the floclss OF
tho maidens. The result was that he
entered tho service az the sheilS, and
married his daughter Zipporah, and
remained in the family Of Raguel for
forty years.
This Long Retirement Preparation
for Ills Life-Woris.-u In these years
his own character would be disci-
plincd and ripened, and every noble
trait confirmed, his faith strengthened,
and his know ledge OF God, OF religion
and of man enlarged. The man sur
rounded with prido and autocratic
power, whose first act in his new life
was to smite an Egyptian-was Ia be-
come tho mcokeet ~ men. ~ lie had
learned all he could In the school OF
Egypt, and needed to escape from all
false influences that might mar his
character and his work Egyptian
ideas must give place 10 divine ideas OF
government and religion. CD Ia the
wilderness no would hold communion
with God. mo region moro favorable
To the attainment OF II lofty coacop-
ton Of tho Almighty could have beea
found" Hero Goa would DO hia teach
err. Tho Absence OF secret training
and discipline will necessarily leave us
larren. superficial and thoorctic
Something more than nero doing is
necessary on tho part OF the true serv-
ant. Tho servant must frequently
stand ia his masters presence in erdcr
that lie may know what no has TO do -
&. III. n. CD In those calm years every
problem 90 be solved in the organiza-
ton Of a people would rise successive
~ IN his mind and Rnd its solution
ucilSic. (5l His wanderings would
mako him acquainted with cvouy val
ley, plain, gorge, Hill and mountGin
OF the wholo region; with It's pOpula-
ton; with every spring and well, and
= IA all tho resources OF every
ll4i offered by any spot; an
ucation OF supreme Importance
towards nt;ing him u guide his
race, when rescued from Egypt.
GciSie. % The lifo too, which he led
was happily adapted TO work within
him that hnrdihood of constitution
and character of which he would after
ward stand so much in need, and OF
which tho sequel OF hin story affords
SO many striking instances F. John
son. az Every tic with Egypt, every
embarrassment OF his official position,
in tho why OF perfect sympathy with
and aid TO the Hebrews, was broken.
However much his heart had been
theirs while he was living amid the
splcndors OF the palace at Tanis, yet
"his flight must have first set him FREQ
from an embarrassing position, and
left him wholly at their service"
The burning Bush.-Whcn the forty
work. when new and weaker
Pharoah had gained possession OF tho
throne instead OF the fierce and war
lilso Ramcscs, and when the lmaclitcs
80 felt the bitterness OF their bondage.
then God called Moses 90 his great
work. Moses was wandering, doubt
lcss In mcditative mood, among tho
mountains OF Sinai when God appeared
10 him by means Of n burning bush,
an acacia thorn-oush 80 common in the
desert. lie did not appear In n burn
ing mountain which would have terri
fed and dlsmayed, but In the common
bush which attracted him.
The Divine Call.-V. 10. Ont OF the
burning bush came the voice OF God,
declaring that however long tho delay
had been, yet lilo knew the condition q
Ills people, lie had heard their prayers,
and tho tImo had now come TO deliver
them from slavery, and 10 bring them
into the ''land flowing with milk and
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