Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-03-09
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By TIE ". G. I. U. OF HOT SPRINGS.
MOSES.
Extract from Q paper read 1t the parlor meeting
at Mrs.. Leacox's, Feb. 3D.
Forty years did the children Of
Israel sojourn in the wilderness lying
to the east Of Egypt and south Of
Palestine, sometimes at war with the
various tribes Of that region, sometimes
at peace, then really ut school with
Moses for their teacher learning that
God is a righteous God and demands
righteousness of his children. Many
many times they wandered from the
path of Righteousness laid down for
them by the great Jehovah, and com.
planned against Moses; but each time
were made to know that only in that
path was to be found peace, prosperity
and true happiness.
After forty years of wandering thru
this great wilderness of Sin with Moses
for a leader, guide and teacher, yea
both q father and mother to them, the
children of Israel we're led by him to
the eastward. around the southern end
of the Dead Sea, thru the country of
the Moabites, their cousins, t%hennorth-
ward where they conquered the Amor
ties and took possession of their
country.
Moses was nov a hundred and twenty
years old and God called him up into
Mount Pisgah and showed him all
the promised land on the other side
of Joruan, but he was not permitted
to enter it for from "Nebo's lonely
mountain" God took him and he was
buried in the valley of the land of
Moab; but no man knoweth of his
sepulchre to this day"
And what lessons are we the children
Of Israel Of to day, to learn from the
life of Moses? First that God is able
at any time to raise himself up a leader
ia bring US out Of the bondage of sin,
yea, even out of the bondage of the
liquor traffic. Second, that we need
not expect that the minute we are just
outside the enemy's country, even tho
the waters of the Red Sea are closed
behind us, that we are Immediately to
be set down in the promised land. We
may have to wander forty years in the
wilderness of compromise and restric-
ton, and political trickery and nullifi-
cation, and conquer the Jebusites of
low license, the Amorites of high Ii
cense, the Hittites of the Gothenberg
system, and the Perizzites of the dis
pensary law, before we can enter in to
the promised land of utter humiliation
of Intoxicating drinks. We are even
now almost through that wilderness
and camped on the Jordan overagainst
Mount Pisgah from whose heights of
righteousness our Moses like the Mo-
ses of old viewed the promised land
into which she was not permitted to
enter. But she has left her intrepid
Joshua in command with the injunc-
ton that she sspeak unto the children
of Israel that they go forward" spy
out the land, enter boldly in and take
possession in the name of the great
Jehovah, who heareth the cry of the
widow and the fatherless, the oppressed
and the suffering.
Third, we should learn a lesson from
the excuses and objections that Moses
made to the Lord when He called him
to the great mission of his life; for he
said unto the Lord, Who am 1 that /
should go unto Pharaoh? Dou't we
often say the same thing in substance?
What influence have 1? Who III listen
to me or believe myreport? But listen
to the answer of the Lord: Certainly
1 will be with thee! And one with the
Lord is always a strong majority for
victory.
And again Moses said unto the Lord
oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, . . for
1 am slow of speech and of a slow
tongue. How often we make the same