The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-09

Zipporah's heart. What mattered 1t to
| Moses whether the cattle of the seven
daughters of Jethro were driven from
the troughs by the rude herdsmen?
| Sense of justice fred his courage; and the
world wants more of the spirit that will
dare almost anything to see others right
ed. All the time at wells of comfort, at
wells of joy, at wells of religions, and at
wells of literature there are outrages prac-
ticed, the wrong herds getting the first
water. Those who have this previous right
come in last, if they come in at all. Thank
God, we have here and there a strong man
TO set things right! I am SO glad that
when God has an especial work to do, he
has some one ready to accomplish it. Is
there a Bible to translate, there is
Wicklitf to translate it; if there is lit
erature to be energized, there is Shakes
peare to energize it, if there is an error to
smite there is a Luther to smite 1t; if
there is to be a nation freed, there is a
Moses to free it. But courage is needed
| in religion, in literature in craftsmanship,
| in all spheres; herocs to defend Jethro's
seven daughters and their hocks and put
TO flight the insoent invaders. And those
| who do the brave work will win some
where high reward. The loudest cheer of
heaven is to be given Ito him that over
cometh.''
Still further, see in this call of Moses
that If God has any especial work for you
to do he will find you There were Egypt
and Arabia and Palestine with their
| crowded population, but the man the Lord
| wanted was at the southern point of the
| triangle of Arabia, and he picks him right
out, the shepherd who kept the flock of
| Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest and
sheik So God will not find it hard to
take you out from the sixteen hundred
million of the human race if he wants you
| for anything especial. There was only
| just one man qualified Other men had
! courage like Moses; other men had some
| of the talents of Moses; other men had
romance in their history, as had Moses;
| other men were impetuous, like Moses;
! but no other man had these different quail
| tiles in the exact proportion 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 characteristics, and
! in what land, or city, or ward or neighbor-
hood or house you live. He will not have
! to send out scouts or explorers to find your
| residence of 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. He called his name twice,
as afterward when he called the great
| apostle OF l1c S1ttblSS TIC Cdl1Su tWkCS, SeNS
| ing saul, Saul" and when he called the
| troubled housekeeper he called her twice,
| saying Martha. Martha" and when he
| called the prophet to his mission he called
| him twice, saying Samuel, Samuel and
| now when he wants deliverer he calls
twice, saying Moses, Moses" Yes, if
| God has anything for us to do he viii call
us twice by name. At the first announce
ment of our name we may think it posi-
| BILE 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 a tremendous per-
sonality. We all have the general call to
salvation. We hear it 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 a playmate or a schoolmate, or a col
legemate or the decease of a business
4 partner, or the demise of a next-door
neighbor, we get the especial call to re-
pentance and new life and eternal hap
piness and we know that God means JUS.
Oh, have you noticed this way in which
God calls us twice? Two failures of invest
ment; two sicknesses; two prosecutions;
two bereavements; two dsappointments;
two disasters. Moses! Moses!
Still further, notice that the call of
Moses was written in letters of fire. On
the Sinaite peninsular there is a thorn
bush called the acacia, dry and brittle,
and it 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 it. AT first
no doubt, IL seemed to be botanical curl
osity, burning. yet crumplng, no leaf
parting no stem, scattering no ashes It
was a supernatural fire that did no dam
| IN the "a hrtrf,
was the call Your call will probably
come in letters of fire. Ministers get their
call 90 preach in letters on paper or parch-
ment, or typewriter, 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 burning in the hectic flush of
your chnd's cheek ii may be found burn
ing in business misfortune; it NAV be
found burning in the fire of the worlds
scorn or hate or Misrepresentation. But
harken to the crackle of the burning BUSH
Oh, what a fascinating and jnsprinp,
character this Moses! How tame all other
stories compared with the biography of
Moses! From the lattice of her bathing
house on the Nile, Thermutis, daughter OF
Pharoah, sees him in the floating cradle
of papyrus leaves made water-tight bv BIZ
tumen; his infantile cry is heard among
the marble palaces and princesses hush
him with their lullabies: workmen by the
roadside drop their work 20 look on him
when as boy he passed, so beautiful was
he; two bowls put before his infant eyes
Tor choice 10 demonstrate his wisdom the
one bowl containing rubies and the other
containing Goals of fire. Sufficiently wise
was he to take the gems, but dvinely di-
rected, he took the Goals and put them to
his mouth, and his tongue was burnt and
he was left stammerer all his days, so
that he declared, in Exod., 4:10: 81 am
slow of speech and of slow tongue;" on
and on until he set firm foot among the
crumbhng basalt, and his ear was not
deafened by the thunderous Thou shalt
not of Mount Sinai; the man who went
to the relief of the Israelites who were
scourged because without chopped straw
they were required to make firm bricks, the
story of their oppression found chiseled
on the tomb of ROschere at Thebes; and
when his armies were impeded by veno-
nous serpents, sent crates of ibfses the