The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-05-19

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othsr prs1sf brought drsaching sAov.
era he nan wAp wrapped up Ais caps
q shsQskia into . ron sd WIN 1t
cot . pafh thspusA rasllg yeraaa for
Just tWO men to pas over. the mss
Who with wheel Of Ore rode over dea&h
md escaped Into the skisg without
mortuary dilintsgration. the maa Who
Thousands OF years aftsr was called out
Of the eternfties to stand beside Jesus
Chrht on uount Tabor when Il vas
Ablase with the splendors Of transAgur.
hkion-this man could look bsck 10 the
tims voracious and filthy ravens we're
his only caterers. dsfHnqs
Tou see .gohn Knox preaching the
coronation sermon Of James vi and
afraigning Queen Mary and Lord Darn
aV In . public discourse at Edinburgh
Ana telling the French smbassadsr to
10 home and call his king murderer,
John Knox making all ChFistsndom
1ssl his moral power and at his burial
the Earl OF Norton saying. Here neth
. man who In his life never fsarsd the
fsce Of man" Where did John KNOX
sst much Of his schooling for sucA 70.
sounding and everlasting achisvsusnt! I!
He got 1t while In chains pullinG at the
boats oar In French captivity. So the
priyGtions and hardships Of yeur life
may on smaller scale be the preface
and Introduction to usefulness and VIC
tory. rs'S~ rr
See also In this call Of Moses that
God has great memory. Four hun
dred years before he had promised the
deliverance Of the oppressed 1sraelites
of Egypt. The clock of time has struck
the hour. and now Moses 10 called to
the work Of rescue Four hundred years
Is very long time, but you see God
caA remember q promise 400 years 40
well As you can remember 400 minutes.
Four hundred years includes all your
ancestry that you know anything about
and all the promises made to them,
and We may expect fulnllment In our
heart and life blessings that were pre-
dictsd to our Christian ancestry CEN
turtles ago. You have . din remsm-
branne. II any rsmembsance at AL. Of
your sreat-grandfather. bat God sees
those who we1e on thsir knees In 1898
- ven - thoe on their knees In 1875.
and tho blessings he promised the fer
mer and their ,descasdants have ar
rived sr. will arrive. !. While pisty b
not hereditary It 10 . grand thing to
have had . pious ancestry. SO God In
this chapter calls up the pedigree Of
the people whom Moses was to deliver.
and Moses Is ordered 20 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"
II that thought be divinely accurate,
let me ask. What are We doing by pray
er and by holy Life for the redemption
Of the ne1t 400 years? Our work is not
only with the people OF the latter part
Of the nineteenth century. but with
those In the closing OF the twentieth
century, and the closing OF tbs twenty
drst century, and the closing OF the
twenty second century. and the closing
ofsths twenty-third century. For 400
years, II the world continues to swing
until that time. or III drops. then not
the influence will 20 on
In other ATTITUDES and longitudes of
Gods universe.
Not one realizes how great he is for
good or for evil. There are branchings
out and rebounds and reyerberations
md Celebrations Of influence that can
not be estimated. The 30 or 100 years
of our earthly stay is only small part
,f our sphere. The Aap Of the wing Of
The destroying angel that smote tho
Egyptian oppressors. the wash of the
Red sea over the heads Of the drowned
were all fulnllments Of
promises four centuries old. And
.hings occur in your life and in mine
hat we cannot account for. They may
De the echoes Of what was promised In
he sixteenth or seventeenth century.
)h, the prolongation Of the divine
memory!
Notice also that Moses was 80 years
'f age when he got this call to become
he Israelitish deliveref. Forty years
le had lived In palaces as a prince.
Another 40 years he had lived in the
Of Arabia. would not
wonder II he had said: Take q young
,r man for this work. Eighty winters
rave exposed my health. Eighty sum-
ners have poured their heats upon
ny head. There are forty years that I
'pent among the enervating luxuries of
/ palace, and then follow the 40 years
II wilderness hardship. I am too old.
Let me of. Better call a man in the
orties or ffties and not one who has
entered upon the eighties" Neverthe-
ess he undertook the work, and II we
want to know whether he succeeded
lsk the abandoned brick kilns Of
Egyptian taskmasters, and tho splinter
ID chariot wheels strewn ON the beach
II the Read sea, and the timbrels which