The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-13

wells of religion and at wells of litera-
ture there are outrages practiced, the
wrong herds getting the first water
Those who have the previous right
come in last If they come in at all
But courage Is needed in religion, in
literature, in craftsmanship, in all
spheres; heroes to defend Jethro's
seven daughters and their hocks and
put to fight the insolent invaders.
And those who do the brave work will
win somewhere high reward. The
loudest cheer of Heaven is to be given
ito him that overcometh."
Still further, see in this call of
Moses that if God has any especial
work for you to do He will End you.
There were Egypt and Arabia and
Palestine with their crowded popula-
ton, but the man the Lord wanted was
at the southern point of the triangle
of Arabia, and He picked him right
out, the shepherd who kept the flock
of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest
and sheilS. So God will not find it hard
to take you out from the 1000 900, 900
of the human race IL He wants you for
anything especial There was just
one man qualified. Other men had
courage like Moses; otG ~ men had
some of the talents of Moses: other
men had romance in their history, as
had Moses; but no other man had these
different qualities in the exact uropor-
tion 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 char
acteristics, and in what land, Vr
city, or ward, or neighborhood, or
house you live. He will not have
to send out scouts or explorers To find
your residence 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.
You see, religion is a tremendous per-
sonality. We all have the general
call to salvation. We hear it in songs,
in sermons, in prayers; we hear 1t year
after year. But after awhile, through
our own sudden and alarming Illness
or the death of playmate, or the
decease of a business partner, or the
demise Of a next-door neighbor, we
get the especial call to repentance, aud
a new life and eternal happiness, and
we know that God means us. Oh, have
you noticed this way in which God
calls us twiceP Two failures ofinvest-
ments; two siclluesses; two persecu-
tions; two bereavements; two disap-
poin tments; two disasters. Moses!
Moses.
o, what fascinating and inspiring
character this Moses! How tame all
other stories compared with the biog-
raphy of Moses! From the lattice OF
her bathing house on the Nile, Their
NUTS, daughter of Pharaoh, sees him
in the floating cradle of papyrus leaves
made water-tight by oitumen; his in.
fantile cry is heard among the marble
palaces and princesses hush him with
their lullabies; workmen by the road
side drop their work to look on him
when as boy he passed, so beautiful
was he; two bowls put before his in
| FAINT eyes for choice to demonstrate his
wisdom, the one bowl containing
rubies and the other con tanning Goals
of fire. Sufficiently wise was he to
take the gems but. diviuely directed,
he took the Goals and put them to his
mouth, and his tongue was burnt, aud
he was left stammerer all his days,
so that he declared, in Exodus
4:l0: II am slow of speech
and of slow tongue;" on and OF
until he set firm foot among the
crumbling basalt, and his ear was not
deafened by the thunderous Thou
shalt not of Mount Sinai; the mar
who went to the relief of the Israelite:
who were scourged because without
chopped straw they were required Il
make firm bricks, the story of theii
oppression found chiseled on the toni
of Roschere at Thebes; and when hi
armies were impeded by venomoui
serpeuts, sent crates of ibises, tn,
Understanding birds, to clear tn,
way so that his host could marcel
straight ahead, thus surprising TIL,
enemy, who thought they must talk,
another route to avoid the reptiles; tn,
whole sky an aquarium to drop Quail
for him and the hosts following; til,
only man in all ages who Chris
/ llNtla w illAtlatlls Tue nun .
whom it is written, Jehovah spolS,
unto Moses face to face as u mar
speaketh to his frieud;" the man whC
had the most wondrous funeral of al
time. the Lord coming down out o
Heaven to bury him, No human lip
to read the service. No choir to chan
psalm. No organ to roll requiem
No angel alighting upon the scene; bu
God laying him out for the last sleep
God upturning the earth to receive In
saint; God smoothing or banking tn,
dust above the sacred form; God, will
farewell and benediction, closing tn
sublime obsequies of law-giver, poe
and warrior. And no man knowetl
of his sepulcher unto this day." Gre
your eye on him, instead of trying t.
initiate some smaller example.
a great snowstorm came on a prairi
in Minnesota, and farmer in a sleigl
was lost but after awhile struck tn,
track of another sleigh, and fel
cheered to 90 on since he had fOunt