The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-13

not stand for law-the supreme law of our
land? And there was Pharaoh. Did he NOT
There were the operators. Did they not
stand for law? They most certainly did
Their whole appeal was to law-to the
statutes that protect their interests, but
hardly to the common law OF justice and
fair dealing between man and man.
THE church had place In the contro-
versy in Egypt, and that Is why am en-
boldened to use this long-gone event as
lesson for us to-day and in pulpit that
is devoted to the teaching of religion. Re-
day to mediate If possible between warning
interests. and If il cannot mediate because
of the obstinacy Of either party, TO de-
clare the law OF God and to do what II
can to mold public opinion in conformity
Herewith.
THE representatives OF law and OF re-
ligion laid the matter before Pharaoh, and
said disasters would come to the country
IL you do not listen and concede something.
And the King Of Egypt said Here o l
oo.s bs ns6es 90 from tbes
work. Get We to your burdens And he
went on to say in effect you are meddlers
and intruders; you are fomentors of law
from their burdens I'll force them back.
PITIFUL THING OCCURRED.
"And then a pitiful and pathetic thing
occurred. The people heard the result of
the conference and were waiting for Moses
and Aaron to appear. And when they came
forth from Pharaoh they said unto them
the Lord look upon you and judge because
we have made our favor to be abhorred in
the eyes of Pharaoh and In the eyes of his
servants to put a sword in his hands TO
STAY u.s. 1 wonder If there were any
Egyptian militia to be called out. 1 do not
believe that Pharaoh would have or did
balk at government troops. Thank God,
our President has not been forced to that
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pressure he has had to bear.
1.-THE church speaks more solemnly than
the state, and yet the priest Aaron went
more grievously astray than the prophet.
He surrendered to the ghetto of gold and
became while he was under its evil spell
a public bane rather than a public blessing.
So will ii now be with any church that sets
| up and bows down to the golden calf.
1T seems to me that hear with the ut
| most distinctness the message of the living
Jehovah crying to the people of the
United States to-day-nay, to us who are
| met here in the quiet of this Sabbath morn
| ing-saying, L am God, am justice / am
love and mercy and light. l have made. a
| covenant with the children of men-all the
children of men-to give them the earth and
| Its fruits, all sheep and oxen, the beasts
! of the field and the fowls of the air. the
| fish of the sea and whatsoever passes
| through the paths Of the sea. l have given
| men-not few men-dominion over all the
| works of my hands. 1 have heard the cry
1 of my people, the grooming of the children
| of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in
| bondage Believe in me, follow me, obey
me and the fullness Of the earth which is
| my glory shall be yours
| And this message, while 1t Is universal,
| is at the same time particular. Can there
| be stronger appeal to you, my brother.
my sister to give your heart to GOD and
| by so doing you may become the means OF
| bringing with His own some impotent but
| cruelty bound, oppressed brother or sister
for whom with all the world our Savior
| died"