The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-05-25
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The SUNDAY SCHOOL
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TIE SHcTION OF HlsToRY-Chaps 3:10
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NEW TEsTAMKxr LIGHE-The story In Acts
7:s9oes Heb Il::s Jesus years Of preparation,
Luke 4:23; John the Baptist Luke I:S0 Op-
posers Of Moses. 3 Tim s:A
TINE-The call q Moses. according TO our
commoa chronology, was In tho summer Of b
c ilo& nearly forty years after he left Egypt
(ActS 7:Ol (Brugxch and Others make The
date shout b G B3O0)
PLACK-The home q Aoses vas in the hand
OF the Midianites, probably In the vicinity Of
Sherm ~ the southern point Of the triangle Of
Arabia. between the twS arms O. the Red sea
The burning bush vas ON Mt Sinai, ''she
mountain Of God" In the Horeb mountains
Horeb was probably the cluster Of mountains.
the mountainous district Of which Sinai was
one mountain The names are often used inter.
changeably.
THE FIELD or ZoAx where Moses met Phar-
aoh and announced the plaques vas Tanis,
lately discovered near the mouth Of the Tanitic
branch Of the Nile.
PREPARATIONS FOR A LIFE WORK.
Moses Punishment for Forty Years
in Arabia.-When Moses fed from
Pharaoh in Egypt, he came to the
borders of the Midianites, in the south
eastern part Of the Arabian triangle.
where was well for the watering of
the focks- While Moses was sitting by
the well the seven daughters of
Raguel. or Reuel, also called Jethro,
the priest and sheik Of the Midianite
tribe occupying that region, came to
water their fathers hocks. They had
drawn considerable water, when some
rude shepherds came up with their
fiocks and drove them away. and took
possession of the trOughs. Upon this
Moses gallantly came to the rescue,
and compelled the shepherds to stand
aside while he watered the fiocks of
the maidens. The result was that he
entered the service of the sheik. and
married his daughter Zipporah, and
remained in the family of Raguel for
forty years
This Long Retirement a Preparation
for His Life-WOrk.-() In these years
his own character would be disci-
plined and ripened, and every noble
trait confirmed, his faith strengthened,
and his knowledge of God. of religion
and of man enlarged. The man sur
rounded with pride and autocratic
power, whose first act in his new life
was to smite an Egyptian-was to be-
come the meekest Of men. (2) He 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 to divine ideas of
government and religion. (S) In the
wilderness he would hold communion
with God. mo region more favorable
to the attainment of q lofty concep-
ton of the Almighty could have been
found" Here God would be his teach
er. The absence of secret training
and discipline will necessarily leave us
barren, superficial and theoretic.
Something more than mere doing is
necessary on the part of the true serv-
ant. The servant must frequently
stand in his masters presence in order
that he may know what he has to do
c. H. NJ. ~ In those calm years every
problem to be solved in the organiza-
ton of people would rise successive
ly in his mind and find its solution
Geikie. (5) His wanderings would
make him acquainted with every val
ley, plain, gorge, hill and mountain
of the whole region: with its popula-
ton; with every spring and well, and
with all the resources of every
kind offered by any spot; an
education of supreme Importance
towards fitting him to guide his
race, when rescued from Egypt
Geikie. (6) The life, too, which he led
was happily adapted to work within
him that hardihood of constitution
and character of which he would after
ward stand so much in need, and Of
which the sequel of his story affords
so many striking instances.-F. John
son. ca Every tie with Egypt. every
embarrassment of his official position.
in the way of perfect sympathy with
and aid to the Hebrews, was broken.
However much his heart had been
theirs while he was living amid the
splendors of the palace at Tanis, yet
Ibis fight must have first set him free
from an embarrassing position, and
left him wholly at their service"
The Burning Bush.-When the forty
years of preparation had done their
work. when new and weaker
Pharoah had gained possession of the
throne instead of the fierce and war
like Rameses, and when the Israelites
SO felt the bitterness of their bondage,
then God called Moses to his great
work Moses was wandering, doubt
less in meditative mood, among the
mountains of Sinai when God appeared
to him by means of a burning bush,
an acacia thorn-oush so common in the
desert. He did not appear in burn
ing mountain which would have terri
fed and dismayed, but in the common
bush which attracted him.
The Divine Call.-V. 10. Out of the
burning bush came the voice of God,
declaring that however long the delay
had been, yet He knew the condition Of