Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-10
ELDER SISTERS POWER
To Influence the Younger Brothers
Way Through This Life.
hut for Miriam There Would Have Hcrn No
Moses Her Devotion Saved linn Ia the
World Beautiful sermon 10y Rev
Dr. T. DcNut TaImIgc, -. -.


Moses Her Devotion Saved linn IL the
World Beautiful sermon by Rev.
Dr. 4. Dewut TaImtgc, %. -.
Talmagc'S text last sunday was EN-
oduS H., I: And his sister stood afar
OF, Ia Wit hat would hc done tn him.
Princess Thcrmutis, daughter of
Pharaoh. looking out through the lat
ticr of her bathing house on the banks
OF the Nile, SAM a curious boat on the
river. Ii had neither oar nor helm,
and They would have been useless. any
how. There was only one passenger,
and that a baby hoy. Iut the May
flower, that brought the Pilgrim
Fathers L. America. carried not 81
precious "A load. The boat was made
ut the broad leaves of papNru~, tight
cncd together hy bitumrn. Boats
were sometimes made of that material,
as we earn from rlinv AMI lIrrndotus
and Thcophristu,. kill all the lie
brew children born" had been rha-
raoh'> order. To save her boy, Jnchc-
bed, the mother Of little Moses, had
put INN IN that queer boat and
launched him His sister Miriam
stood on the bank watching that pre-
ciou> craft. She was far enough OF
not Ia draw attention To the boat, but
near enough Ia offer protection. There
she stands on the bank Miriam, the
pocteS>; Miriam, the quicb-wrttcd; Mi
riam. the faithful, though very human,
for in after time she demonstrated it
Miriam was splendid sister, hut
had her faults like all the rest of rs.
How carefully she watched the boat
containing her brother! \ strong wind
might upset 1T. The buflalOcS often
found there might IN a sudden plunge
of thirst sink it. Some ravcnous water
owl might swo"p and pick his eyes out
with iron hcak. Some crocodile or
hippopotamus, crawling through the
bushes. might crunch the babe. Miriam
watched aud watched until Princess
lhcrmutiS. a maiden on each side of
her holding palm leaves over her head
Ia shelter her from the sun, came down
and entered her hathiu" house. When
from the lattice she saw that boat She
ordered it brought, and when the
leaves were pulled back from the face
of the child and the boy looked up he
cried aloud. for he was hungry and
frightened. and would not even let the
princess take him. The infant would
rather stay hungry than acknowledge
any one of the court as mother.
Now Miriam, the sister. incognito,
no one suspccting her relation tn the
child, leaps from the bank and PUSHES
down and offers to get IA nurse to
Iacify the child. Consent is given, and
she bringsJochcbed, the baby's mother,
incognito. none of the court knowing
that she was the mother; and when
Jochcbcd arrived, the child stopped
crying, for its fright was claimed and
its hunger appeascd. You may admire
Joche bed the mother, and all the ages
may admire Moses, but | clap my
hands in applause at the behavior of
| Miriam, the faithful, brilliant 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 ruff
fan? TO home" No: Miriam. the Sis
.
ly defended Moses, the brother. Is he
worthy her care and courage? Oh, yes;
the 60 centuries of the worlds history
have never had so much involved in the
arrival of any ship at any port rs in
the landing of that papyrus boat
calked with bitumen. Its one passenger
was TO be noncsuch in history-law-
yer, statesman. politician, legislator,
organizer, conqueror, deliverer. lie
had spch remarkable beauty in child
hood that JoScphus 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 il off Indignantly
and put his foot on it. The king,
fearing that this might lie sign
that the child might yet take
down h : crown, applied another
| test. According to the Jewish
| legend the king ordered two bowls to
BE- put before the child, one contain
| ing rubics 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 put it in his
mouth, so that his life was spared. al
| though it burned the tongue till he was
| indistinct of utterance ever after. lIav-
ing come To manhood, he spread open
| the palms of his hands in prayer. and
| the Red sea parted to let =, 800, 900 peo-
pie escape. And he put the palms of
hon L.. Ia, nj ha
Red sea closed on a strangulated host.
His life SO utterly grand, his burial
must be on the same scale. God would
let neither man nor saint nor arch
angel have anything to do with wcav-
| ing for him shroud or digging for
him grave. The omnipotent God
left his throne in Heaven one day, and
| if the question was asked, ''Whithcr is
the King of the Universe Going?' the
answer was, Il am going down to
bury Moses" And the Lord took
this mightiest of men to the top
of hill, and the day was clear,
and Moses ran his eye over the mag
nificent range of country. Here, the
valley of Esdraelon, where the final
battle of all nations is to be fought,
and yonder, the mountains Hermon,
and Lebanon, and Gerizim, and the
hills of Judea: and the village of Beth
lehem there, and the city of Jericho
FOUNDER, the vast stretch OF
landscape that almost took the old law.
giver's breath away as he looked at it.
And then with pang-as learn from
the statement that the eye of Moses
was undimmed and his natural force
unabated-God touched the great law.
giver's eyes, and they closed; and his
lungs, and they ceased; and his
heart, and it stopped; and commanded
saying: ITO the skies, thou immor
tai spirit!' And then one Divine hand
was put against the back of Moses and
the other hand against the pulseless
breast, and God laid him softly down on
Mt Nebo, and then the law-giver, lifted
in the Almighty's arms, was carried to
the opening of a cave and placed in q
crypt, and one stroke of the Divine
hand smoothed the features into n
everlasting calm, and a rock was roll
ed to the door, and the only obsequies