Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-05-09
CHRISTIAN r,prAvoR.
Topic For the Week Beginning May
I3-Comrnent by Rev. y. "A. Doyle.

Topic For the Week Beginning May
13-Comnent by Rev. >. IA. Doyle.
ToPic.--vision and serviee.-Ex xiv, b-ls'
xxi, 10, 20; Math. xvii, is, 1870
In these references we have two vi
sions of God and two services per
formed after God had been seen Tie
first Is the vision of Moses OH Xount
Sinai and his subsequent destruction
Of the golden calf which the lsraelites
had set up as an idol in his absence.
The second Is Christ's vision upon the
Mount of TRANSPORTATION and His sub
seQuent casting the demon out OF the
demoniac child.
/. Moses vision and service tEx.
xiv, 1918; Xxi, 10. 2Ol AT Mount
Sinai, on the way from Egypt to Ca
naan, God called Moses alone to the
top of the mountain that He might
give to him the tables of stone contain
ing His commandments for His PEG
pie. On Mount Sinai Moses had Vi
sion of the glory of the Lord. THE
glory of the Lord abode upon Mount
SINH" And the sight of the glory of
th,. Lord was like devourin@ fire on the
top of the mountain in The eyes OF the
children of Israel" What must it have
been, then, TO Moses! Forty days and
40 nights Moses was on the mount
beholding Gods glory. He comes back
to the people to find them worshiping
an idol He who had just witnessed
the glory of the true God sees his peo-
pie bowling down to an image made by
their own hands. What a contrast!
How utterly abhorrent this idolatry
must have appeared to Moses In con-
sideration of his recent ecstatic visions
of God. And what did he do? He
took the calf, 80 burned 1t in fire and
ground 1t to powder and strewed 1t in
the water and made the children of
Israel drink of it." Moses vision of
God made sin repulsive and ,repugnant
to him and filed him with zeal for
its overthrow and destruction. To
see God should affect us in a similar
way. Ii should make sin hateful and
repulsive and fill US with Il desire 10
destroy it both in ourselves and in 9th
ers. We should be more strongly af-
fected in this way than Moses. Moses
saw God on Mount Sinai; we have seen
God on Mount Calvary,
2 Christ's vision and service {Math.
xvii, Is: xiv. 2ol. Six months before
Christ was crucified He was taken up
on Mount Hermon. near Cesarea Phi
lippi, and TRANSPORTED in the presence
of Moses, Elijah, Peter, James and
john For a moment the glory Of
heaven shone in Him. His face did
shine as the sun. and His raiment was
white as the light" Coming down
from the Mount of TRANSPORTATION and
Of heavenly vision, He finds His disci-
pies unable to heal poor boy pos
sessed of an evil spirit because of their
lack of faith And what did Jesus do!
He .'rebuked the devil, and he depart
ed out of him, and the child was cured
from that very hour" Christ's trans
figuration and vision would undoubted-
ly fill him with a still more fervept
zeal to serve God in casting out evil
and in rescuing fallen humanity from
the powers of darkness. If we have
been transformed by the power OF the
cross and have thus seen vision of
Gods glory. we also should be filed
with burning zeal to uplifr fallen hu-
mainly, TO rescue men from the power
and consequences of evil
THE PRAYER MEETING.
Arrange special programme, having
short addresses or papers, as follows:
First. the vision of Moses; second. the
vision of Jesus: third, the vision of
Paul; fourth. the vision of John.
BIBLE READINGS.
Gen. XVIII, 1912; Mum. xiv, 1921;
Prov. xxx. Is: lisa. vi, Is; xviii, Z;
Lam. ii. s. .; Eek. /. l. -; Hos. xii,
10; Joel ii. ~. 81: Math. V. s: Acts II.
14-21; vii. 54-Go: TX. l-6; xvi. $40; Rev.
l. 1922.