Connecticut western news., 1898-02-10
\ FAITHFUL SISTER.
pR. TAlMAGs TELLS AGAIN THE
 STORY OF MIRIAM.

Her serytse to Aoses Was Like That
 Rendered to Brothers Whose Lives They
 Nave Inausnced For Good.
 Ic0pyrisht. lsss, ey American Press Asso-
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-In this ser. mon of Dr. Talmage the character of wise, sympathetic and self denying sis ter IS set forth as ap example. and the story will set hundreds of men to think ing over old times: text, Exodus ii, 1, And his sister stood afar od to wis what would be done to him.
 Princess Thermntis, daughter of Pharaoh. looking out through the lat rice of her bathing house, on the banks of the Nile. saw curious boat on ths river. It had neither oar nor helm, and they would have been useless anyhow. There was only one passenger. and that & baby boy. But the Mayfiower, thas brought the pilgrim fathers to Amer ica, carried not so precious load. Tho boat wss made of the broad leaves of pspyrus, frightened together by bitumen. Boats were sometimes made of that ma terial, as we learn from Pliny and Herod- otus and Theophrastus. Kill all thu Hebrew children born" had been Pha. xAoh order. To save her boy, Jochebed, the mother of little Moses. had put him in that queer boat and launched him. His sister Miriam stood on the bank watching that precious craft. She was far enough of not to draw attention to the bost, but near enough to offer pro- tection. There she stands on the bank Miriam the poetess, Miriam the quick witted, Miriam the faithful. though very human, for in after time she dem. onstrated it.
 She Had Her Faults.
 Miriam was splendid sister, but had her faults, like all the rest of as. How carefully she watched the boat contain. ing her brotheri A strong wind might upset it. The buffaloes often found there might in sudden plunge of thirst sink 1t. Some ravenous waterfowl might swoop and pick his eyes out with iron besk Some crocodile or hippopota- mus crawling through the rushes might crunch the babe Miriam watched and watched until Princess Thermutis, Q maiden on each side of her holding palm leaves over her head to shelter her from the sun, came down and entered her bathing house When from the lattice she sAw that boat ahe ordered it brought, and when the leaves were pulled back from the face of the child and the boy looked up he cried aloud, for he was hungry and frightened and would not even let the princess take him. The in- fant would rather stay hungry than acknowledge any one of the court as mother. Now Miriam, the sister, incog- iite. no one suspecting her relation to the child, leaps from the bank and rushes down and offers to get e nurse to pacify the child. Consent is given, and she brings Jochebed. the baby's mother, in cognito, none of the court knowing that sheswas the mother, and when Jochebed arrived the child stopped crying, for its friRhs was calmed and its hunger ap- peased. You may admire Jochebed, the mother. and all the ages may admire Moses. but clap my hands in applause at the behavior of Miriam, the faithful, brilliant and strategic sister.
 ssGo home" some one might have said to Miriam. "Why risk yourself ous there alone on the banks of the Nile, breathing the miAsma and in danger of being attacked of wild beast or ruffian? Go homef' No; Miriam. the sister, moro lovingly watched and bravely de- fended Moses, the brother. Is he worthy her care and courage? Oh, yes; the 60 centuries of the worlds history have never had 30 much involved in the ar rival of any ship at any port as in the laading of that papyrus boat calked with bitumen Its one passenger was to be 8 nonsuch In history-lawyer, states man. politician. legislator, organizer, conqueror. deliverer. He had such re- markable beauty in childhood that, Josephus says, when he was carried along the read people stopped to gaze at him. and workmen would leave their work to admire him. When the king playfully put his crown upon this boy. he threw 1t of indignantly and put his foot on 1t.
 The king. fearing that this might be sign that the child might yet take down his crown. applied another test. According to the Jewish legend, the king ordered two bowls to be put before the child. one containing rubies and the other burning coals, and if he took the coais he was to live and if he took tho rubies ho was to die. For some reason the child took one of the coals and put 1t in his mouth, so that his life was spared, although it burned the tongue till he was indistinct of utterance ever after. Having come to manhood, be spread open the palms of his hands in prayer, and the Red sea parted to let 2.500, 900 people escape. And he put the palms of his hands together in pray lated host.
 Grand In Lifs and In Death
 His life so unutterably grand, his burial must be on the game scale. God would let neither man nor saint nor archansel have anything to do with weaving for him g shroud or digging for him grave. The omnipotent God left his throne in heaven one day, and if the question was asked, "Whither is the King of the Universe going?" the answer was, ''I am going down to bury AaOsSS &alu knS LOAu kOOA Anls est of men to the top of a hill, and the day was clear, and Moses ran his eye over the magnificent range of country. Here the valley of Esdraelon, where the final battle of all nations is to be fought, and wonder the mountains Her mon, and Lebanon, and Gerizim, and the hills of Jud1a, and the village of Bethlehem there, and the city of Jeri- eho yonder, and the vast stretch of landscape that almost took the old law siver's breath away as he looked at it.. And then without . pang-as I learn from the statement that the eye of Moses was undimmed and his natural force unahated-God touched the great lawgiver's eyes and they closed, and his lungs and they ceased, and his heart and 1t stopped. and commanded, saying, ''To the skies, thou immortal spiritl' And then one divine hand was put against the back of Moses and the