The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-09

ward Or hsiehborhood 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 be will
make 1t as plain that he means you as he
made 1t plain that he needed Moses Ho
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 housekeeper
he called her twice, saying "Martha,
Martha" and when be called the prophet
to his mission he called him twice, saying
samuel, Samuel" and now when he
wants q deliverer no calls twice. saying
"Moses, Moses" Yes, II God has any
thing for US to do he will call us twice by
name. At the first announcement of our
name We may think 1t possible that we
misunderstood 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 Samuel or
Moses.
You see, religion is q tremendous per-
sonality. We all have the general call Of
salvation. We hear 1t In songs, in SER
mons, In prayers. We hear it year after
year. But after awhile, through our own
sudden and alarming illness, or the death
of playmate, or schoolmate, or COL
lege mate, or the decease Of a business part
ner, or the demise Of next door neighbor,
we get the especial call to repentance and
new life and eternal happiness, and we
know that God means us. You have no.
ticed the way in which God calls us twice.
Txup fail Inn Of iny 20 f.rn lob
nesses, two prosecutions, two bereave-
ments, two disappointments, two disas-
tiers. Moses! Moses!
Character Of Moses.
Still further, notice that the call of
Moses was written in letters of fire. On
the Sinaitio peninsula there is thorn
bush called the acacia, dry and brittle,
and 1t easily goes down at the touch Of
the flame. 1t crackles and turns to ashes
very quickly. Moses, seeing one Of these
bushes on fire, goes to look at 1t. At first
no doubt it seemed to be botanical curiosi-
ty, burning, yet crumpling no leaf, part
ing no stem, scattering no ashes. II was
a supernatural fire that did no damage to
the vegetation. That burning bush was
the call.
Your call will probably come In letters
of fire. Ministers get their call to preach |
in letters on paper or parchment or type |
written, but it does not amount to much |
until they get their next call In letters of ]
fire. You will not amount to much in |
usefulness until somewhere near you find
burning bush. 1t may be found burn
ing In the hectic flush Of your ohild's |
cheek. 1t may be found burning in bust
ness misfortune 1t may be found burn
ing in the fire Of the worlds scorn or hate
or Misrepresentation. But harken to the |
crackle Of the burning bush
Oh, what fascinating and inspiring |
character this Mosesl How tame all other
stories compared with the biography 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 btu
men; his infantile cry is heard among the
marble palaces, and princesses hush him
with their lullabies; workmon 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 infant 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, divinely direct
cd no took the Goals and put them to his
mouth, and his tongue was burned, and
he was left stammerer all his days, SO
that he declared, in Exodus Nv, 10, II 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 "Thou shalt
mott of Mount Sinai, the man who went
to the relief of tho Israelites who were
because without chopped straw
they wero required to make firm bricks,
The story Of their oppression found chisel-
VI on the tomb of Roschere at Thebes, and
hen his armies were impeded by venom
Gus serpents sent crates of ibises, the snake
destroying birds, to clear the way so that
his host could march straight ahead, thus
the enemy, who thought they
must take another route to avoid the rop-
tiles; tho whole sky an aquarium 20 drop
luails for him and the hosts following;
the only man in nll ages whom Christ
ikens to HIMSELF the man Of whom it Is
written, Jehovah spoke unto Moses face
% face as man speaketh to his FRIEND"
he man who had tho most wondrous
uneral Of all time, the Lord coming down
tut of heaven to bury him. No human
lips to read the service. No choir to chant
psalm. No organ to roll requiem. No
nigel alighting upon the scene, but God
aging him out for the last sleep, God up
urning the earth to receive the saint, God
or banking the dust above the
acred form, God, with farewell and bene-
LECTION, closing the sublime obsequios Of
aw giyer poet and warrior "Aud no
nan knowoth Of his sepulchor unto this
lay" Get your eye on him instead Of try
ng to initiate some smaller example.
A great snowstorm came on prairie
n Minnesota, and farmer in a sleigh
vas lost, but after awhile struck the track
f another sleigh and felt cheered to 20
IN, since he had found tho track of ano;h-
r traveller. He heard sleighbells proceed
ng him and hastcned on and caught up
With his predecessor, who said, "Wher3
no you going?' II am following YOU"
vas tho answer that came back. The fact
8 that they were both lost and had gono
ound and round In circle,s Then thoy
alkcd the matter over and, booking up,
aw tho north star, and toward the north
vas their home and they started strategic
or it, Oh, instead of initiating mon like
ourselves and circling round and round. !
ct us look up and take some starry guido
Ike Moses and follow on until we join
i'm amid the "delectable mountrins"
'ou say you cannot reach his character.
III, no. Neither cun you reach tho north
tar, but you can be guided by its heaven
7 pointing.
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