Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-09

will MOI have 60 send out scouts or ex-
plorers to find your residence or 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 the gentiles he called twice,
saying, "Saul, SAUL and when he
called the troubled housekeeper he call
ed her twice, saying, "Martha, Mar
tha, and when he called the prophet
to his mission he called him twice, say
ing, Samuel, Samuel" and now when
he wants deliverer he calls twice, say
ing, "Moses, Moses Yes, if God has
anything for us to do he will call us
twice by name. At the first announce
ment of our name we may think 1T pos
sible that we misunderstood the sound,
but after he calls us twice by name we
know he means us as certainty as when
he twice spoke the names of Saul or
Martha or Samuel or Moses
You see, religion is a tremendous
personality. We all have the general
call of salvation. We hear it in songs,
in sermons, in prayers; we hear it year
after year. But after awhile, through
our own sudden and alarming illness
or the death of playmate or school
mate or a college mate or the decease
of business partner or the demise of
next door neighbor, we get the especial
call to repentance and a new life and
eternal happiness. and we know that
God means us. You have noticed the
way in which God calls us twice? Two
failures of investments; two sicknesses;
two prosecutions; two bereavements;
two appointments; two disasters
Moses, Mosesl
Still further, notice that the call of
Moses was written in letters Of fire. On
the Sinaitic peninsula there is 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, it seemed to be botan-
ical curiosity, burning, yet crumpling
no leaf, parting no stem, scattering no
ashes. 1t was supernatural fire that
did no damage to the vegetation. That
burning bush was the call.
Your call will probably come in let
tiers of fire. Ministers get their call to
preach in letters ON paper or parchment
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 a burning bush. 1t may
be found burning in the hectic flush of
your child's cheek; it may be found
burning in business misfortune; it may
be found burning in the fire of the
worlds scorn or hate or misrepresenta-
tion. But harken to the crackle of the
burning bush
Oh, what a fascinating and inspiring
character this Moses How tame all 9TH
er stories compared with the biography
of Moses! From the lattice of her bath |
ing house on the Nile Thermutis, daugh- |
ter of Pharaoh, sees him in the floating |
cradle of papyrus leaves made water |
tight by bitumen; his infantile cry is |
heard among the marble palaces and |
princesses hush him with their lula
bies: workmen by the roadside drop |
their work to look on him when as a |
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 9TH
er containing Goals of fire. Sufficiently |
wise was he to take the gems, but di-
vinely directed he took the Goals and
put them to his mouth, and his tongue
was burned, and he was left a stammer-
er all his days. SO that he declared in
Exodus iv, 10, liam 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 not'' of Mount
Sinai, the man who went to the relief
of the Israelites who were scourged be-
cause 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
serpents, sent crates of ibises,
the snake destroying birds, to clear the
way SO that his host could march
straight ahead, thus surprising the en-
envy, who thought they must take an
other route to avoid the reptiles the
whole sky an aquarium to drop quails
for him and the hosts following; the
only man in all ages whom Christ likens
to himself; the man of whom it is writ
ten, Jehovah spoke unto Moses face to
face as a man speaketh to his friend;"
the man who had the most wondrous
funeral of all time. the Lord coming
down out of heaven to bury him. No
human lips to read the service. No
choir to chant a psalm. No organ TO
roll requiem. No angel alighting upon
the scene, but God laying him out for
the last sleep; God upturning the earth
to receive the saint; God smoothing or
banking the dust above the sacred form Il;
God, with farewell and benediction,
CLOSING the sublime obsequies of law
yiver, poet and warrior. "And no man