The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-05-10


gious service. The Nile was an object of
worship. Not few regard the washing as
for curative effects. The Jonathan IdrSam
says: God had smitten all Egypt with
ulcers, and the daughter of Pharaoh came
to wash in the river to fnd relief" 1t adds:
"As soon as she touched the ark where Moses
was her ulcers were healed" This would
account for her loyalty to the infant, and is
supposed to have been miraculous on pur-
pose, so as to gain protection for the child.
Suggestions.
4. Have faith in God. Heb, II: 23.) 1t
is evident Jochebed trusted Providence
would devise escape.
2. Infanticide in all forms is thoroughly
wicked Queen Victoria brought joy to
millions of parents by forbidding the
drowning of babes in the Ganges
3. Use human means, and God will sup
plement your efforts. Amram and Jochebed
prepared the ark and God sent Pharaoh's
daughter.
a. Sisters should be kind to little brothers.
We think well of Miriam when we see her
anxiety for Moses.
5. Little boys should be glad we live in
land not oppressed. No Pharaoh can order
them to be killed. Thank God for civil lib
erty and rights.
o. Oou says 10
school teachers: "Take these children; nurse
them for me: care tor their souls; teach
them to grow up good men and women, and
1 will give thee wages" Nourish the chill
dren for Christ. God will richly reward all
our pains. Our youth are in danger of
wicked Pharaohs, Nile streams of evil,
human crocodiles. The world abounds in
iniquity. Temptations are on all sides. Let
every father be an Amram, busy in con-
structing arks of safety. Let every woman
be praying, wise Jochebed, a watching, in
genous Miriam. Brothers depend much on
mothers and sisters.
Other Cases Like Moses's.
Cruelty to children and efforts for their
extinction have been part of history. At
times such barbarity has been the product
of jealousy, then of fear, then of pure cru
city. Again, children have been put to
death as religious practice.
We recall the unholy worship of Moloch
by human sacrifices, and that specially of
children.
The story of the Ganges is frightful. No
one can write it, and the world does not
court the revelation of such horrors Hap
PLY the Queen of England is also Empress
of India, and the crocodiles of the Ganges
must go hungry if they depend on children
for food.
We recall the story of Romulus and Re-
mus.
Jealousy explains why Herod the Great
had so many innocents of Bethlehem put to
death.
Thevenot, referring to the Persian Kings,
tells how they ordered newborn male in
fants who were heirs to royalty to be slain.
Not only may Governmental tyranny
Il |. A Il
Jochebed were reduced, but poverty. The
newspapers contained for time the follow
ing:
"As Nj. Cabot was fishing in the Seine
near Suresnes, on Thursday, he noticed
boat floating down the stream without any
one apparently on board TO guide its move
ments. On proceeding to it in his punt, he
found it was tenanted by couple of young
children girl and boy, aged about Is
months and two-and-a-half years respective
ly, who were sleeping peacefully in two
cradles covered over with piece of sail
cloth. Both were carefully wrapped up,
but their clothing bore 10 marks by which
they could be identified. Attached to one
of the cradles was paper bearing the fol-
lowing words written in pencil: l have
abandoned you because am unable TO sup
port you; and, as I cannot live without you,
/ am about to drown myself to rejoin your
dead father May somebody save and take
care of you.' The two children have been
sent to the Hospice DIES Enfants Assistes,
where several offers to adopt them have
already been received"
The Babe Noses an art.
Hogarth painted Moses Before Pharaoh's
Daughter" for a Founding Hospital in Lon
don, 1851. We notice the fitness of the
painting for the place The Babe Moses
stands for helpless, abused infancy be-
friended.
Plockert's painting, "The Finding of
Moses" is admirable. Near by is the
Sphinx. The scenery is Egyptian. The
feelings of surprise, pity, sympathy, love
on knees holds up in her arms the ark with
Shall the child be cast back into the water,
or saved?
Dore has done this scene very tellingly,
as one can see in his gallery.
The Babe Noses in Poetry.
This scene is too tempting to miss the
notice of the poetic. Several favorites of
the MUSES. have attempted the description
in verse. We notice 1.-THE Sisters Watch"
by Emily Thornton. One might read it
with profit to his class rs q comment on this
lesson. Victor Hugo's Moses on the Nile"
beginning, "Mes Soeurs ronde est plus
fraiche," is delightful reading. The last
two lines are:
Israel, cradle shall redeem thy worth;
cradle yet shall save the widespread earthl
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