Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-14
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burning bush was the call.

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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 burning bush. 1t may
DO 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-
ton. But harken to the crackle of the
burning bush!
Oh, what 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 be to take the gems, but di-
yinely 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, clam 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
venomous serpents, sent crates OF lblses,
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 q 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 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;
God, with farewell and benediction,
closing the sublime obsequies of law
giver poet and warrior. land no man
knoweth of his sepulcher unto this
day" Get your eye on him, instead Of
trying to initiate some smaller example.
A great snowstorm came on a prairie
In Minnesota. and farmer in sleigh
was lost, u11t after awhile struck the
track of another sleigh and felt cheered
to 60 on, since he had found the track
of another traveller. He heard sleigh
bells preceding him and FASTENED on and
caught up with his predecessor, who
said, "Where are you going:" II am
following you" was the answer that
came back. The fact is that they were
both lost and had gone round and round
in a circle. Then they talked the mat
ter over, and, looking up, saw the north
star and toward the north was their
home, and they started straight for it.
Oh, instead of initiating men like our
selves aud circling round and round, let
US look up and take some starry guide
like Moses and follow on until we
join him amid the "delectable. noun
tains." You say you cannot reach his
character. Oh, no. Neither can you
reach the north star, but you can be
guided by its heavenly pointing. /