The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1898-05-27

of fire rode over death and escaped
into the skies without mortuary disin.
| tegratiOn; the man who thousands Of
years after. was called out of the ctcr-
mites to stand beside Jesus Christ on
Mt. Tabor when it was ablaz. with the
| splendors of transfguration-this man
could look back to the time when vo-
raciOus and filthy ravens were his only
:ate rers. You see John Knox preach
| ag the coronation sermon of James
W.. AMI arraiSning Queen Mary and
| Lori Darnley in 4 public discourse at
| Edinl urgh, and telling the French am
oass;.dor to go home and call his king
a murderer; John Knox making all
Christendom feel his moral power, and
at his burial the earl of Morton SAYING:
Here lieth a man who in his life never
feared the face of man." Where did
John Knox get much of his schooling
for such resOunding and everlasting
achievements? He got it while in
chains pulling at the boats oar in
French captivity. nj chael Faraday,
one of the greatest in the scientific
world. did not begin by lecturing in
the university. He began by washing
| bottles in the experimenting room of
Humphrey Davy. "Hohenlinden," the
immortal poem of Thomas Campbell,
was first rejected by newspaper ed-
itor, and in the notes to correspond
ents appeared the words: ITO L. c.:
| The lines commencing, On Linden
when the sun was low are not up to
our standard. Poetry is not L. c. S
| forte" Oh! it is a rough road TO any
kind of valuable success. So he pri-
vations and hardships of your life may
| on smaller scale be the preface and
introduction to usefulness and victory.
See also in this call of Moses that
God has a great memory. Four hum
dred years before he had promised the
dcliverance of the oppressed Israc lites
of Egypt The clock of time has struck
the hour. and now Moses is called to
| the work of rescue. Four hundred
vars is a very long time. but you See
| God can remember promise 400 years
| as we'll as you remember 400 minutes.
Four hundred year, includes all your
| ancestry that you know anything
about, and all the promises made to
| them, and we may expect fulfllment
| in our heart and life of all the bless
ings predicted to our Christian ances-
try centuries ago. You have a dim re-
membrance. if any remembrance at
all, of your great-grandfather, but
God sees those who were on their
knees in 1898 as we'll as those on their
knees in 1898, and the blessing He
promised the former and their de-
scendants have arrived or will arrive.
While piety is not hereditary, it is a
grand thing to have a piou, ancestry.
So God in this chapter calls up the ped
igree of the people whom Moses was to
deliver and Moses is ordered to say to
them: THE Lord God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac
and the God of Jacob hath sent me unto
YOU" If that thought be divinely &C
curate, let me ask, what are we doing
by prayer and by holy life for the re-
demption of the next 400 years? Our
work is not only with the people OF
the latter part of the nineteenth CEN
fury, but with those in the closing of
the twentieth century. and the closing
of the twenty-first century. and the
closing of the twenty-secOnd century,
and the closing of the twenty-third
century. For 400 years, if the world
continues to swing until that time, or
if it drops. then notwithstanding the
influence will go on in other ATTITUDES
and longitudes of Gods universe.
| No one realizes how great he is for
good or for evil. There are branch
ings out and rebounds, and reverbera.
tons. and celebrations of influence
that can not be estimated. The SO or
100 years of our earthly stay is only a
small part of our sphere. The flap OF
the wing of the destroying angel that
smote the Egyptian Oppressors, the
wash of the Red sea over the heads OF
the drowned Egyptians, were all full
ailments of prophecies four centuries
old. And things occur in your life and
in mine that we can not account for,
They may be the echoes of what was
| promised in the sixteenth or seven.
teenth century. Oh, the prolOngation
of the divine memory!
Notice, also, that Moses was so year.
of age when he got his call to become
the Israelitish deliverer. Forty year:
he had lived in palaces as prince; an
other 40 years he had lived in the will
dernesses of Arabia. should not won
der if he had said: Take youger mar
for this work. Eighty winters have
exposed my health; so summers have
poured their heats upon my head; there
are the 40 years that spent among
the enervating Injuries of q palac,
and then followed the 40 years O.
wilderness hardship. / am too old
Let me off. Better call a man in the
forties or fifties, and not one who ha.
entered upon the eighties" Never
thel.ss. he undertook the work and i
we want to know whether he succeeded
ask the abandoned brick kilns O
Egyptian taskmasters and the splinter
ed chariot wheels strewn on the beach
Of the Red sea, and the trimbrel.
which Miriam clapped for the Israel
ties passed over the Egyptians gone
under.
Do not retire too early. Like Moses
you may have your chief work to d.
after so. 1t may not be in the higl
places Of the field; it may not be where
a strong arm and an athlete foot and {
clear vision are required, but there j.
something for you yet to do. Perhaps
it may be to round off the work you
have already done; to demonstrate the
the patience you have been recon-
mending all your lifetime; perhaps Il
stand as a lighthouse at the mouth Of
the bay to light others into harbor
perhaps to show how glorious sunset
may come after . stormy day.