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have not overlooked it, but only
passed it over, keeping the best wine
till the last 1t is that of Moses, the
great liberator and law-giver of his
people. Picked up a poor abandoned
waif in the land of the Nile, he grew
up apart from his people. One day
when he had reached the years of
manhood he went out from his palace
home to see for himself the labors Of
the sons of Israel in the slime pits and
brick yards of Egypt. There he be-
held cruel Egyptian taskmaster
whipping his Jewish workmen, and
Moses, moved to indignation, smote
him where he stood and killed him
and buried him in the sand. News Of
the deed was not long in reaching the
ears of the king. And when Moses
knew that the king would put him to
death, he fled away and became
wanderer in strange land. After
many years God appeared to him in
the land of Madam and said: Come
and will send thee to Pharaoh, that
thou mayest bring forth my people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt
And Moses, who was a stammerer and
slow of speech, said to God: Who am
J that should go to Pharaoh and
should bring forth the children of Is
rael out of Egypt? Well might any
man, much more Moses at that time
ask the question, "Who am 1 that l
should hope to perform such hercu-
lean task?" The work to be performed
was greater than that undertaken Ivy
the immortal Lincoln when he declar-
cd free four millions of slaves. For a
while the number of slaves was about
the same in both cases. Lincoln had
rich country and great generals and
mighty army back of him. Moses had
nothing of all these. He even needed
the help of his brother Aaron to an
nource to Pharaoh his message Sin
gle. handed he was to effect the liberia
PEOPLE owned as slaves by one abso-
Lutte monarch, and that monarch the
most powerful in the world No won
der that his heart grew faint and his
courage failed him and he asked in
dismay: Who am that should bring
the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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Moses went. He went to victory
Despite the despot's iron will, despite
the might Of pursuing armies, despite
the faint-heartedness of his own peo-
pie and the rigors of desert and sea,
Gods command was by him fulfilled,
for God had said, II will be with thee"
(IIxod. 81 From the moment that
word is spoken obstacles vanish, hui
man strength becomes the strength of
God, and the word failure is blotted
out of the list of possibilities.
l think we may safely assume by
this time that we have caught the
meaning of this phrase in the language
of the Bible. Now what was the
task which God enjoined on the
Apostles when He added, II will be
with you always?" 1t was simply
that Of teaching all things that He
had taught to them. They must teach
just that and nothing else, neither
forth, and shall not return to Him
void. They will teach for all time
exactly those truths that He appointed
them to teach. We know that they
will do SO as certainly as we know
that God is true. This is infallibiIity,
all that we mean by infallibility, and
nothing else but infallibility. We be-
lieve, then, with the Holy Catholic
Church of all the ages that in her
teaching she is infallible and that in
accepting her teaching we are accept
ing the very teaching of God himself
And why should it not be so? If
st. Paul could say before Festus and
Agrippa, "Why should it seem to you
a thing incredible that God should
raise the dead?" we may we'll ask,
Why should it seem to you thing in
credible that God should guard His
teaching church from error? There is
no reason but that by human power
alone the thing cannot be done. But
we do not claim that it is done by hui
man power, or human learning, or hui
man skill Of any kind. 1t is done by
the power of Him who said, will be
with you all days even to the con-
summation of the world.
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