The San Francisco call., 1896-03-31
MISS FRANKS LECTURE.
She Speaks to a Large Audience and
Gives Her Ideas Concerning
Moses.

wives Her IueaS concerning
Moses.
Miss Ray Frank lectured on "Moses" at
1920 Clay street yesterday afternoon. She
was introduced by Rabbi Nieto.
81 have been asked" began the lecturer,
''to say what kind of Moses l intend to
picture, what / shall have to say about
him and from what standpoint. Ny only
answer to this has been: l will just
give picture of my Moses. He is cleaned
from many books and manuscripts, but
for all that am pleased to call him my
Moses.
THE account, as you know, comes from
the first five books of the Bible, classified
under the generic term Pentateuch. He
was prince, a metaphysician, a philoso-
pher, priest, a prophet, martyr and a
universal genius. Every one holds within
himself to-day fraction of all the various
qualities of Moses"
Then followed lengthy discourse on
the qualities manifest in the great charac-
ter of each of these roles.
Miss Frank said Moses was destined to
give to the world something, and that
something was law. Said the speaker:
Law in the natural thing-simple in its
operations simple in its aspects, if we un-
derstand it. 1t is moving principle,
itself going on and on. Whatever gets in
front of that law is nodded by it. That is
the working of law in the natural world.
1t has no reverence for what seemingly is
good and for what seemingly is bad. In
other words, we have out of this law the
survival of the tittest. In the days of
Moses men were nodded by their environ
ments quite as well as they are to-day.
During patriarchal times men had very
faint idea of God but in Moses day they
had come to look upon him as jealous
God"
The lecture referred to the pre-eminent
genius of Moses, as illustrated by his
diplomacy in leading the children of
Israel out of the land of bondage, and
across the Red Sea into the wilderness,
which was followed by a vivid word picture
of the glories of Sinai, and the effect pro-
duced on the Israelites at the sight of
Moses descending thence amidst thunder
and lightning, bearing the tables of the
law, that have nodded the policy of ma
tions, in his arms. Coming to the human
side of his nature, she graphically por
trayed the results of his peevish eagerness
to supply the demand of the people, and
the credit taken to himself in shifting the
rock to produce water instead of calling
upon it in the name of 1ahveh, or Jeho-
yah. For this said Miss Frank, she
Was utHIeu tue udppy CuliH1HaliOu Oi MS
hopes-enterlng the promised land; but
there is something sublime in the forti-
tude with which he resigned himself to the
Will of God, trusting that he would in
some way be rewarded for his labors.'
As political economist Miss Frank de-
nominates the great man rescued from the
bulrushes by Pharaoh's daughter a mas
ter. She thinks that no Adam Smith
John Stuart Mill, nor Henry George ever
suggested anything tending to the relief of
the poorer classes more than Moses agra
rian law by which the rich were compelled
to sow in the corners of their land as well
as in more accessible parts, but were or
dered.to let the poor reap in them. This
tended. she thinks, to do away with the
self-debasement accompanying the accept
ance of aims.