The Progress., 1898-02-12
Rev DR.. Talmage Discourses on
Brother and Sister.
The influence of the Former on the Life OF
the Iattor-Men Who Owe Their
Success to the Care of an
Elder sister.

of self-denying sister on young
mans career. The text 49,
And his sister stood afar off. to wit what
would be done to him
Princess Thermutis. daughter OF
Pharaoh, looking out through the lat
tice of her bathing house, on the banks
of the Nile, SAW curious boat on the
river It had neither oar nor helm,
and they would have been useless any
how. There was only one passenger,
and that baby boy. But the May
flower. that brought the Pilgrim Fa-
theirs to America, carried not SO precious
load. The boat was made OF the
broad leaves of papyrus, frightened to-
gether by bitumen. Boats were some
times made of that material, as we
learn from Pliny and Herodotus ana
Theophrastus. kill all the Hebrew
children born had been Pharaoh's or
der. To save her boy, Jochebed, the
mother of little Moses, had put him IN
that queer boat and launched him.
His sister, Miriam, stood on the bank
watching that precious craft. She was
far enough off not to draw attention to
the boat, but near enough to offer pro-
lection. There she stands on the bank
Miriam the poetess, Miriam the
though very human, for in after time
she demonstrated it.
Miriam was splendid sister, but had
her faults, like all the rest of us. How
carefully she watched the boat con-
tanning her brother! A strong WIND
might upset it. The buffaloes often
found there might in sudden plunge
Of thirst sink in it. Some ravenous
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eyes out with iron beak. Some croco-
die or hippopotamus crawling through
the rushes might crush the babe. Mi
riam watched and watched until the
Princess Thermutis, a maiden on each
side of her holding palm leaves over
her head to shelter her from the sun,
came down and entered her bathing
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
Anyonc OF the court as mother. Now,
VMir:anl, the sister, incognfto, no one
snspccting her relation to the child,
leaps from the bank and rushes down
and offers to get nurse to pacify the
child. Consent is given, and she brings
Jochehed, the babys mother, incognito,
none q. the court knowing that she was
the mother; and when Jochebed ar
rived, the child stopped crying, for it's
fright was Gained and its hunger app
peascd. You may admire Jochebed,
the I.other, and all lineage may adj
miro Moses, but / clap my hands in APP
pluuse 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, breath
Ing tbs miasma, and in danger of being
attacked of wild beast or ruffian; ego
hon,e!s No; Miriam, the sister, more
lovingly watched and bravely defended
Moses, the brother. Is he worthy her
care and courage? Oh, yes; the go
centuries OF the worlds history have
never had so much involved in the ar
rival of any ship at any port as in the
landiry of that papyrus boat caull<ed