The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-05-11


of the Red Sea, and the timbrels which
Miriam clapped for the Israelites passed
over and the Egyptians gone under.
Do not retire too early. Like Moses,
you may have your chief work to do
after so. 1t may not be in the high
places of the field; it may not be where
a strong arm and an athletic foot and
a clear vision are required, but there is
something for you yet to do. Perhaps
it may be to round off the work you
have already done; to demonstrate the
patience you have been recommending
all your lifetime; perhaps to stand a
lighthouse at the mouth of the bay to
light others into harbor; perhaps to
show how glorious sunset may come
after stormy day.
Still further, see in this call of Moses
that if God has any especial work for
you to do he will find you. There were
Egypt and Arabia and Palestine with
their crowded population, but the man
the Lord wanted was at the southern
point of the triangle of Arabia, and he
picks him right out, the shepherd who
kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-
law, the priest and sheik. So God will
not find it hard to take you out from
the 100000 900 of the human race if
he wants you for anything especial.
There was only just one man qualified.
Other men had courage like Moses, 9TH
er men had some of the talents of Moses;
| other men had romance in their his
tory, as had Moses; other men were inn
petuous, like Moses; but no other man
had these different qualities in the ex-
act proportion as had Moses; and God
who makes no mistake, found the right
man for the right place. Do not fear
you will be overlooked, or that when
you are wanted God cannot find you.
He knows your name, your features,
your temperament, and your charac-
teristics and in what land, or city, or
ward, or neighborhood, or house you
live. He will not have to send out
scouts or explorers to find your resi-
dence or place of stopping, and when
He wants you He will make it as plain
that He means you as He made it plain
that He needed Moses. He called his
name twice, as afterward when He
called the great apostle of the Gentiles
He called twice, saying, Saul, Saul"
and when He called the troubled house
keeper He called her twice saying,
Martha, Martha" and when He called
the prophet to his mission He called
him twice, saying, Samuel, Samuel"
and now when He wants a deliverer
He calls twice, saying moses, Moses"
Yes, if God has anything for us to do
He will call us twice by name. At the
first announcement of our name we
may think it possible that we under
stand the sound; but after He calls us
twice by name we know he means us
as certainly as when He twice spoke
the names of Saul, or Martha, or Sam
uel or Moses.
Oh, what fascinating and inspiring
character this Moses. How tame all
other stories compared with the biogra-
ply of Moses! From the lattice of her
bathing house on the Nile, Thermutis,
daughter of Pharaoh, sees him in the
floating cradle of papyrus leaves made
water-tight by bitumen; his infantile
cry is heard among the marble palaces
and princesses hush him with their
lullabieS; workmen by the roadside
drop their work to look on him when
as boy he passed, so beautiful was he;
two bowls put before his infant eyes
for choice to demonstrate his wisdom,
the one bowl containing rubies and the
other containing Goals of fire. Suf-
fciently wise was he to take the
gems, but, divinely directed, he took
the Goals and put them to his
mouth, and his tongue was burnt,
and he was left sCammerer
all his days, SO that he declared, in
Exodus iv, 10: 81 am slow of speech
and of slow tongue;" on and on until
he set firm foot among the crumbling
basalt, and his ear was not deafened
by the thunderous "Ihou shalt not" of
Mount Sinai; the man who went to the
relief of the Israelites who were
scourged because without chopped
straw they were required to make firm
bricks, the story of their oppression
found chiseled on the tomb of Roschere
at Thebes; and when his armies were
impeded by venomous serpents, sent
crates of ibises, the snake destroying
birds, to clear the way SO that his host
|, could march straight ahead, thus sur
prising the enemy, who thought they
must take another route to avoid the
reptiles; the whole sky an aquarium
to drop quails for him and the
hosts following; the only man in
all ages whom Christ likens to him
self; the man of whom it is written:
Jehovah spoke unto Moses face to
face as man speaketh to his friend;'
the man who had the most wondrous
funeral of all time, the Lord coming
down out of Heaven to bury him. No
human lips to read the service. No
choir to chant a psalm. Nor organ to
roll requiem. No angel alighting
upon the scene, but God laying him
out for the last sleep; God upturning
the earth to receive the saint; God
smoothing or banking the dust above
the sacred form; God, with farewell
and benediction, closing the sublime
obsequies of lawgiver, poet and war
rior. "And no man knoweth of his
sepulcher unto this day." Get your eye
on Him, instead of trying to initiate
some smaller example.
A great snow storm came on prairie
in Minnesota, and farmer in sleigh
was lost, but after while struck the
track of another sleigh and felt