The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-15
Delivered by Or. Hubbard
In the New Chapel,
Thursday Evening
Was Heard by Large and Ap
preciative Audience Many
We're Converted.


FIVE years from now, if / am living,
| don't know but that III offer each
one here a prize if he has forgotten
the text The children Of Israel
went and did So"
/ remember, when a little fellow,
going by where a blind man was
making brooms The blind man
cracked a hickory nut and gave il to
me, and he said 10 my father: GAS
long as your boy lives he will never
forget the blind man who cracked a
hickory nut and gave it 10 him"
And, true as preaching, | have new
cr been able to get out Of my mind
that blind man aud that hickory nut
"The children OF Israel went and
did So" Eighty years before our
text was uttered the children Of Israel
we're having a very hard time Of it in
Egypt. Egypt was taking perfect
delight in prosecuting Israel. They
were putting 30 death the baby boys
Israel groaned aud suffered under
the crucltyof old Egypt and ! doubt
not many Of the Israelitish fathers
and mothers thought they would like
to take revenge ON the Egyptians for
numbering their little children. 1t
j. natural for the human heart TO
want 10 get back" on the person OF
the people who murder any one in
our families, but we do not realize
that one has only 10 have patience
aud God will revenge his own Ii is
not necessary for us 10 take vengeance
into our own hands and repay the
people who may wrong US; the Lord
takes care OF that As far as ! have
lived ia the world, / have never
known any one yet 10 do wrong or
mean thug bat t~fore be got through
with life be got come up with Ii is
not necessary for you TO take the
matter into your hands Some way
OF other, under the providence Of
God, the thing that is done wrong
against Another is followed up, aud
We need not have any care about it.
Eighty years before, Israel suffered
aud mourned for the death Of her
children. Eighty years seems a long
time 10 wait for your revenge and for
punishment upon the Egyptians for
all the wrong they had done, but the
time has arrived, and Moses comes
forward aud tells the people that the
death angel is going to pass through
all Egypt aud that the first born in
every home is going to die in a few
nights. And then Moses goes TO the
children Of Israel and asks them:
Would you like to have your FIRST
born escape on that night when the
death angel shall pass through
EgyptW There is a simple way in
which you can save your frst-born.
All you have 10 do is to sprinkle
blood upon the door posts and upon
the hntels aud when the death angel
shall come by upon that terrible
night he will pass over your homes
and pass over your first born and
take the Egyptian first born" And
the text in the Scriptures says. "The
children Of Israel went aud did so"
So there was a busy time in killing
the lamb or the kid and sprinkling
the blood upon the door posts and
the lintels for the sparingof the first
born.
lean well imagine that in the after
noon of that day, the last day. there
were some who scoifed at the whole
thing aud said. "Oh, / don't see any
good in that sprinkling of blood
can't see how that is going TO save
anybody" And they said, "Now
III just not sprinkle my door posts
with blood"
And the first born boy comes out
and looks at his house and sees no
blood upon the lintels and upon the
door post, and he goes to his mother
and says, Mother, look here, there
is no blood sprinkled upon our door
posts, and the death angel is coming
by and | am your first born. I'm
afraid to die tonight and I'm afraid |
shall unless the blood is put upon
the door posts"
"Well," said the mother, II think
il ought to be put upon the door
posts and the lintels, but your father
doesn't think much Of that"
"But mother, | want to be safe-I
don't want to run the chance of dying
tonight"
"Well, your father says he doesn't
believe there is any need of putting
the blood there --"
81 know, but he is not sure He
is not SURE. ! don't want to rest my