The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-02-17

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anNhnw. iThererwas, only one
passenger, and: thataa, baby boy. But
the MayhOwer that brought the i>Pll-
grim Fathers to America, carried; not
so precious;j a load. The boatrWas
made, ofSthe;. broad leaves Of papyrus,
frightened, together: by bitumen. Boats
We're som etimes made of that material,
; as we learn! from Pliny and Herodotus
land Theophrastus. Kill all the He
brew ochildren born" had been Pharl
aoh's, order. ';Eo save her boy, Joche-
! bed, the mother, of little Moses, had
put him, in that queer boat and launch
{ ed him. His sister, Miriam ,Sstood0on
the bank watching that precious. craft
She was far" enough off, not totiraWI at
tention to the boat, but near enough
=; to- offer protection. There she stands on
the bank-Miriam, the ,.poetess, Miri-
: am, the quickvwisted, Miriam, the faith
1ful, though very human, for in. after
years she demonstrated it.
Miriam was splendid sister, but had
had her faults, like .all the rest of us:
How carefully she watched the boat
containing: her; brother! A-strong wind
soften upset it, THE buffaloes often
found there might lin "a sudden pRnnge
rof thirst sink;it. :Smmeyravenous water
wlimight sswoop"a pick his eyessout
with iron beak. Some: crocodile or hip
'popotam,tst crawling through the PUSHES
mightscrunch+t the babe. Miriam watch
ted land watched: until Princess Thermal
tits, "a maiden con each side of her hold
ing palm leaves cover her head to shell.
ter her from the SUD, came down *annE
entered her bathing house. When'frons
THE lattice she saw that iboat she Or
deEad lit brought, and when the leaves
were pulled hack from the face of the
child and the boy looked sup he cried
aloud, for he Was hungry and ffright-'
ened, and would not even let the prin-
cess take him. The infant would ,rath-
er stay hungry sthan acknowledge any
one of the court AS mother. Now Mir
lam, the sister, incognito, no ,one sus
pecting her relatf0n to the child, leaps
from the bank ard rushes down and
offers ito get a nurse to pacffy the child.
Consent is given, and she brings Joche-
bed, the boys mother, incognito, none
of the court knowing that she was the
mother; and when gochebed ARRIVED,
the child stopped crying, for its fright
was Gained and it's munger appeased.
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, bril-
liant and strategic sister.
go home" some one might have
said to Miriam; why risk yourself out
there alone On the banks Of the Nile,
breathing the miasma, and in danger of
being attacked of wild beast or ruffian;
go home" No; Miriam, the sister,
more lovingly watched and bravely de-
Tended Moses, the brother. Is he
worthy her care and courage? Oh,
yes; the sixty centuries of the worlds
history have never had so much in
volved in the arrival of any ship at any
port as in the landing Of that papyrus
boat calked with bitumen! Its one pas
senger was to be a nonsuch in history
-laWyer, statesman, politician, legisla-
tor, organizer, conqueror, deliverer He
had such remarkable beauty in child
hood that Josephus says, when he was
carried along the road, 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 it off Indignantly,
and put his foot upon it. The king,
fearing that this might be a sign that
the child might yet take down his
crown, applied another test. Accord
ing to the Jewish legend, the king Or
dered two bowls to be put before the
child, ONE containing rubies and the
other burning Goals; and if he took the
Goals, he was to live, and if he took the
rubies, he was to die. For some reason
the child took one of the Goals, and nut
it 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. he
spread open the palms of his hands in
prayer, and the Red Sea parted to let
two million five hundred thousand peo-
pie escape. And he put the palms of
his hands together in prayer, and the
Red Sea closed on a strangulated host
His life so unutterably grand, his
burial must be on the same scale. Cod
archangel have anything to do with
weaving for him shroud or DIGGING
for him grave. The omnipotent Cod
left his throne in heaven one dav and
if the question was asked, whittier is
the King of the Universe going?" the
answer was, II am going down to bury
Moses" And the Lord took this
mightiest 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 Esdrae-
lon, where the final battle of all ma
tons is to be fought; and yonder, the
mountains Hermon and Lebanon and
Gerizim, and the hills of Judea; and
the village Of Bethlehem there, and
me city OF Jericho yonder, and the vast
stretch of landscape that almost took
the old lawgiver's breath away as he
looked at it. Aud then without pang
las learn from the statement that the
eye OF Moses was nndimmed and his