The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-05-13

Oh, what a fascinating and inspiring
character this Moses! How tame all
other stories compared with the biogra-
ply of Mosesl From the lattice of her
bathing house on the Nile, Thermutis,
daughter 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 lul-
labies; 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
other containing Goals of fire. Suffi-
GENTLY wise was he 10 take the gems,
but, divinely directed, he took the Goals
and put them to his mouth, and his
tongue was burnt, and he was left a
stammerer all his days, so that he de-
clared, in Exod. 4:10, Il am slow of
speech and of slow tongue" on and on
until he set firm foot among the crum-
bling basalt, and his ear was not deaf
ened by the thunderous Inou 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 Rochere
at Thebes; and when his armies were
impeded by venomous serpents, sent
crates of ibises, the snake destroying
birds, to clear the way so that his host
could march straight ahead, thus sur
prising the enemy, who thought they
must take another route to avoid the
reptiles; che whole sky an aquarium to
drop quails for him and the hosts fol-
lowing; the only man in all ages whom
Christ likens to himself; the man Of
whom it is written, Jehovah spoke un-
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 a requiem. No angel
alighting upon the scene; but God lay
ing him out for the last sleep; God up
turning the earth to receive the saint
God smoothing or banking the dust
above the sacred form; God, with fare
well and benediction, closing the SUI
blime obsequies Of lawgiver, poet and
warrior. And no man knoweth of his
sepulchre unto this day." Get your
eye on him, instead of trying to initiate
some smaller example.
A great snow storm came on a prairie
in Minnesota, and farmer in a sleigh
was lost, and after while struck the
track of another sleigh, and felt cheer
ed to go on, since he had found the
track of another traveller. He heard
sleigh bells preceding him, and hasten
ed on and on and caught up with his
predecessor, who SAL: Where are you
going?" II am following you," was
the answer that came back. The fact
is that they we're both lost, and had
gone round and round in a circle. Then
they talked the matter over, and, look
ing up, saw the north star, and toward
the north was their home, and they
started straight for it. Oh, instead of
initiating men like ourselves, and cir
cling round and round, let us look up
and take some starry guide like Moses,
and follow on until we join him amid
the "delectable mountains" You say
you can not reach his character. oh,
no. Neither can you reach the north
star, but you can be guided by its heav-
emily pointing.