The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-02
SPECIAL SERVICES HELD.
Nearly All of the Churches We'll
come the New Year.
IMPORTANCE OF DECISION
An Interesting Sermon by the Rev. Mr..
Albritton at the Mountain View
Church-For Christ and
the Right.

Services appropriate to the new rear
were held in nan churches yesterday
and the sermons were on New Year top
les.
Special New Year services were held
yesterday at Mountain View NJ. l..
church both morning and evening and
both services were attended to the capa-
city Of the church. In the evening there
was a special musical programme and
Rev. MIR. Albritton preached a highly
interesting sermon on the subject: The
Importance of Decision" He said:
by faith Moses when he was come
to years refused to be called the son of
Pharoah's daughter. choosing rather to
suffer affiiction with the people of God
than to enjoy the pleasures Of sin for a
season, esteeming the reproach of
Christ greater riches han the treasures
in Egypt, for he had respect unto the
recompense of the reward.
mo name In the bible stands higher
than that Of Moses. No man has ever
lived in the world whose influence has
extended further than his. Witty,
wordy men may make sport with the
ignorant masses concerning the mis-
takes of Moses. but Moses name will be
honored and held in grateful remem-
brance long after the world has forgot
ten hat there ever lived a man who
went up and down this land lecturing
and holding Moses up before the people
in ridicule.
Moses was born when Israel was
most cruelty oppressed. The decree a
gone forth from the king that every
male child born should be put to death.
When Asuram and Joe looked upon
the face of their baby boy they
saw he was a proper child. n for a
while they were not afraid of the kings
commandments, and they kept him
with them for three months, and when
they could keep him no longer they pre-
pared an ark of b~ullrushes, covered 1t
with bitumen. baptised 1t with their
tears and with a prayer to the God of
their fathers they cast him upon the
bosom of the Nile and left his sister
Miriam to watch. BY chance (and VINO
Will say IL was only by chance) the
daughter of Pharaoh came to the river
to battle, and seeing the basket ordered
II brought to her. and the tears of the
beautiful bah touched the mother-love
and she adopted the child as her own,
through the ingenuity of the sister
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be cared for. At the proper time he is
X to the palace and publicly recog-
nized as the son OF the kings daugh-
ter and is educated In all the learning
Of Egypt. the Their foremost nation on
the globe. Tradition and also profane
history tells us as a boy he was fair to
look upon. and as a young man he was
popular with the people and was COM
mander OF the Egyptian army. The
time Comes xNhan ha 10 40 wars Of ana
that he is to be publicly recognized as
the heir 10 the throne, and now Moses
must decide whether he will be the
child of the Egyptian princess and wear
the crown of the illustrious line of
Pharoahs. with all the wealth and honor
n pleasures of a kings life, or cast his
lot with a despised people. laboring I'M
der taskmasters out in the land of
Goshen, N u sacred and in
spired writer tells US he re-
fused to be called the son of Phar-
oah's daughter and spurned the treas
ures i'm Egypt and chose to suffer af-
Fiction with the people of God. for he
had respect unto the recompense of the
reward. Let us this morning briefly no.
tice the refusal of Moses and see what
II meant. 1t was a remuneration of hon.
or and fame.
ITO be called the son of Pharoah's
daughter and the crown of Egypt.
Moses was educated in Egypt. He
could not have been insensible to the
charms and the n of the court.
He gave up worldly pleasures and en-
joyments. He surely appreciated these.
As prince of Egypt he could have had
them all. He refused riches, even the
treasures Of Egypt. and while the
Pharoahs were always rich. after JOS
eph's time they far more so.
They could not but have had charms for
Moses. What did Moses accept? His
lot with the people of God. This meant
at this time poverty. He must give up
his inheritance and take his place
among a race of slaves. and a race of
people who were a stencil in the nos
trils of the Egyptians. 1t meant ban
ishment. Moses could not hope to re-
main ever in the land of Egypt after
having nounc the place he was Of
fered. III. indeed. he could escape with
his life. he must depart from the land
of his adoption and become a wanderer
in "A strange land.
1T meant breaking up tender asso-
Citations. Moses was a man. and as our
text this morning showed him. a man
of a lender heart. He surely loved his
Egyptian mother. He ought to have
loved her. He accepts mlsrepresenta-
tion, which, perhaps. IL harder than
else. To be misunderstood and
misrepresented when n is doing his
duty is perhaps the hardest thing a true
man has to bear. Moses was misunder-
stood by his own people. and they re-
fused to ave anything to do with him.
and he was forced to go to indian and
for 40 ear to wander up and down it's
plains and commune with his own
heart and listen TO the whispering of
the Gods In the sacred haunts of Horeb.
He accepts the reproach Of Christ. l
cannot say exactly what the sacred
writer means by this, except reproach
fell upon Moses-as being righteous
overmuch"-as Il did upon the Master
in His day, and the same is true even
to-day. No man car take a firm stand
against what is wrong and escape re-
proach. n the mos; bitter reproach.
and oftentimes reproach from those
from whom he might expect better
things.
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