Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14

| tlHn HniLndls! never IN all the VIDE
world have there been more beautiful
buildings than those ancient temples
of Kardusseh and Philae and Aboo
Simbel and Kom Umboo and Adfoo
and Esnek and Karnak, where the
pharaohs worshiped. and Medeenet
Haboo and Luxor and Kurneh. Truly,
like Paul standing on Mars hill. when
we see these huge structures we can
exclaim, aye men of old Egypt, per-
ceive that In all things We are too SUI
perstitious!" Why, the great hall Of
pillars" ut Karnak looks as though the
pillars had been hewed out Of the very
center of the earth and set up in long
rows for the dome Of the heavens to
rest upon. so massive are they. Each
one of those columns Is covered with
the most exquisite carvings. So in
finite are these carvings that, like
prairie full OF wild flowers, their indl-
vidual beauties are lost In the multi
tude of the wonders. Do you wonder
amid the perncious influences of such
heather worship. that God said to
Moses. the adopted son of Pharaohs
daughter: Come, my child-come to
indian lands. Come into the quietude
of desert exile. Come and learn OF
me and hear the duty required Of
thee" Now, my friends, Just as Moses
had his INDIAN exile 70 learn Of Gods
thoughts and Gods ways, we as Gods
children, should have our INDIAN ex-
lies.
God had another purpose In arrang
ing the events which eliminated in
driving forth Moses from Pharaohs
| palace. The adopted son Of Pharaohs
daughter had to be taught by bitter
experience what it was to suffer jus
tice before he was fitted to he the
emancipation of a Hebrew race groan-
ing and suffering amid the tortureS Of
Egyptian slavery. He had to lift to
his lips the chaice of woe filled with
his own scalding tears and drink the
| cup OF sorrow to the dregs before he
was fitted TO wipe away the tears from
the eyes of his fellow men. No man
can truly sympathize with sick man
unless he has first been sick himself
| No man can truly sympathize with the
| poor unless, like John Howard Payne
he has not place to call his home
or unless in the winter night he has
| gone to the rooms Of a tenement where
| there was no fire In the cold stove be-
cause the coal bin was empty, or into
hut where he hears his little ones
crying for something TO eat and he
has not five cent piece to buy a loaf
Of bread to ease the cravings Of their
hunger. All, yes, Moses in that indian
! exile, by bitter experience, learned
only too we'll the injustice which the
Hebrew people in Egyptian slavery
had to suffer! Let us study for little
while the bringing up Of this marvel
GUS boy Of the east.
Boyhood Of Moses.
He was developed in his early days
as some Of us were by our parents, as
dollhouse plant. No rough, sharp
wind was allowed to touch him. He
breathed no bad, vitiated air. His pal
ace bedroom overlooked the wonderful
7 river Nile. There during the long hot
months he saw the princes and prin-
cesses loungng in their boats. being pull
ed along by the slaves. Life seemed to be
made up. for the most part, of music
| and dancing and merrymaking. The
palace grounds in which the lad Moses
used to play were. a dream Of beauty.
Because he was we'll clothed all people
were we'll clothed. Because he was
kindly treated all people, If they be-
have themselves. are kindly treated.
But one day he was disillusioned.
He was walking again by the river
Nile. Now. instead of being child,
he was a man in middle life, or about
forty years old. While he was walk
ing along the river bank he saw an
Egyptian overseer begin to abuse one
| Of the slaves. Moses was noted for
his meekness. but he raised his STAFF
and smote the Egyptian and killed him
in his tracks. Then what happened2
Moses ceased to be a prince. As a
fugitive slave, he was tracked from
place to place. AS Hebrew fugi-
tive, he had to fee death as a rab-
bit runs from the baying Of the
hounds. BY bitter personal experience
he learned only too we'll what the poor
Hebrews had to suffer under the agon-
izing strokes Of the Egyptian slave
masters My friends, did you ever
stop to think that God has sent you
bitter troubles in order to make you
sympathize with those who are trou-
bled in life? Did you ever stop to
think that God has taken away your
little child in order that you might
become a gospel emancipation for the
sufferings of your fellow men? The
lands of INDIAN to which you go are
the sacred places where man comes IN
contact with God. but also where the
sympathetic heart of man learns to
throb in unison with the suffering
hearts Of his enslaved brothers and
sisters down in faroff Egypt
Learning to Sympathize.
1t is only when man like Paul has
been the chief of sinners that he knows
how TO lead others into the gospel
peace. 1t Is only when woman has
Nood by the caSliet of n dear husband
that she is fully equipped to carry a
comforting message to the newly wild
owed heart The story is told that
many years ago King Henry of Eng
land in disguise, was arrested by the
royal guards as n thief for proving
around the palace grounds and carried
off to Jail at Poultry Compiler. There