The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-05-18
The Childhoo d OF Nose.

The Childhood OF Nose.
The lesson tor Sunday, May 20, may
be found in Elk d. 2: 10.
INTRODUCTORY.
Joseph pas IS; the les sons of his life,
| let Us hope, remain. And now another
name that breaches: Moses. What
stirring suggestions about this collec-
ton Ct letters! Moses drawn out.
Drawn out and saved, not only from
the waters but from Egyptian social,
political, and religious life, on
which waters he seemed, for q
while, al at. Tn re was a calm
dignity and self-respect about Moses
that are admirable. He was never
ashamed Of his lowly origin; indeed.
he seemed fifty proud OF it. When
Lord Thurlow was Chancellor of Great
Britain, would-be flatterer said to
him, "Y,u descended from Thurlow
who was secretary to Cromwell" mo,
sir; no, sir, was the dignified reply.
There were two Thurlows; one was
| secretary, one was a carter. | de-
scended from the carter"
| POINTS IN TIE LESSON.
"The house of Levi" The sons OF
| Levi eem to have been the readiest to
respond to the progressive spirit OF the
times. They were, perhaps the best
educated and most cultivated Of the
Hebrew people. Moses had lowly but,
at the same time, lordly ancestry.
| When she saw that he was goodly
| child" The Hebrew phraseolOgy is:
| And she saw that he was comedy, and
she hid him three months" Not
| simply because he was more favored
in beauty than the rest. What
mother would not count her child
| lovely, or seek to save hi, life. Per-
haps there was divineness in his
| beauty, some such suggestion as was
given to Mary.
Moses was doubtless of noble face
| and figure. Tradition says of him that
| he att acted the attention of people as
he walked forth. Josephus says that
he was remarkably tall at years Of
age. Stephen in the Acts says that hs
was Exceeding fair" Greek: fair to
God or for Cod. All our pictures Of
| Moses, represent the conceptions of
the artists, one OF the Moses OF the
Exodus, already aged, but, in the
imagination OF the painter or sculptor,
beautiful with age.
And yet this was rot an unheai dot
expedient. The clay tablets of the
royal Chaldean Library contained the
account of a King Sergon l., who in
to have been saved by means of bull
rush ark. Pos IDLY, Jochebed had heard
this story: Il am Sergon the great
king, the king of ACADIA My mother
was CT the ancestors of the land, bat
never knew my father. l was born
secretly in the city of Atzupirani, OH
the banks of the Euphrates. My
mother put me in an X of b Illrushes
lined with bitumen. and laid me in the
river which did not enter the ark 1t
bore me to the dwelling of Ekki, the
water-carrier, and he in the goo lness
of his heart lifted me from the water,
and brought me up as his Cwn son.
After this he established me as a gar
dener, and Ishtar caus ID me to prosper,
and. after years, | came TO be king"
HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
If the princip Q, urged so forcib'y by
DR.. Harper and others, Is true. namely,
that to be able to teach and preach
prophecy, we NEED t. understand the
circumstances tlat occasioned the
prophetic Inference, how much moro
necessary is it for us, desiring to ex-
pounl Israelitish history, to have
clear id "a of the surrounding Incl
dents and events that gave character
to the day. a large study of Egyptian
h!sto.y, itself IN st int ting, should
accompany perusal # the chapte 8
now under study. Ebe's. Stanley and
Ceikie may be mentiored as the
authors most available and entertain
ing. and periodical literature aboun Is
with new light on the subject. Indeed
there Is no reason why we should not
now, letter than at any time before in
the worlds history, comprehend the
period under sc utiny and the signs of
the times that gave 1t distinct place
in the development of the nations.
The childhood OF Moses falls in the
days of the ninete enth dynasty, the
Egyptian kings having again come to
pJwer. 1t was still a day of splendid
national advancement, and we are to
picture the youthful Moses in the royal
household and nursed in the very lap
If luxury. Ebers de cribes the palace
of Raneses as more ike little town
than like an ordinary house. Hero
the hoy Moses could roam and enjoy
himself at his will. The strength Of
his national predictions may be
judged from the fast that he did not
renounoe all connection with the de-
spis d PEOPLE OF Israel, and that, b ar
ing the diplo ma Of the great university
at On. his delight was still in the law
of the Lord. That first psalm-perhaps
it was Moses own.
DO you take ca @ of yourselves. lit
tie ones?" exclaimed the benevolent
visitor to the two children she found,
alone in the bare tenement. God
takes care of us, sa the older of the
two. And are you not very cold? no
fire on day like this?" "Oh," was
the answer, when we a.e very cold we
creep under the quilt, and / put my
arms around Tommy, and Tommy p Is
his arms around me, and we say: Now
l lay me- then we get warm" What
have you to eat, pray?" when Gran
ny comes home she fetch us sone-
thing. Granny avs God he's got
en- )ugh, and she calls us Cod S spar
rows, and we say, Our Father and
daily bre d every day. God is our
Father" Yes, ii we will come as
children. "All things work together
for good TO them t. at love Gcd."
NeNt Iessol.-"Moses Sent rs De-