Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-16
ACCOuAc c. H. VA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1907


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
exclalm, "Ye men Of old Egypt per-
ceiye that in all things ye are too su-
perstitiousw Why, the great hall OF
pillars" at 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 indi-
yidual beauties are lost In the multi
tude of the wonders. Do you wonder,
amid the pernicious influences OF such
heather worship, that God said 10
Moses, the adopted son of Pharaohs
daughter: "COme, my child-come 10
INDIAN lands. Come into the quietude
of q desert exile. Come and learn OF
me and hear the duty required or
thee" Now, my friends, just as Moses
had his INDIAN exile to learn OF Coos
thoughts and Gods ways, we, as Gods
children, should have our Midian ex'
lies.
God had another purpose In arrang-
ing the events which eliminated IN
driving forth Moses from Pharaoh's
palace. The adopted son Of Pharaoh's
daughter had to be taught by bitter
experience what it was to suffer inJus-
tice before he was fitted to be the
emancipation Of Hebrew race groan-
ing and suffering amid the tortures or
Egyptian slavery. He had to lift TO
his lips the chalice Of woe filed with
his own scalding tears and drink the
Gun 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 a SICK man
unless he has first been sick himself
No man can truly sympathize with the
DOOR unless, like John Howard Payne
he has not q place to call his home
or unless In the winter night he has
gone to the rooms of 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 ne
has not a five cent piece to buy loal
of bread to ease the cravings OF theil
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, al
hothouse plant No rough, sharI
wind was allowed to touch him. III
breathed no bad, yltiated air. his pal
ace bedroom overlooked the wonderfu
] river Nile. Thera during the long ho
months he saw the princes and prln
cesses lounging in their boats, being pull
cd along by the slaves. Life seemed to b
made I'D. for the most part, or musl
and dancing and merrymaking. In
nalace grounds In which the lad flose
used to play were a dream OF beauty
Because he was we'll clothed all peopl
were well clothed. Because be wa
kindly treated all people, II they be
have themselves, are kindly treated
Rut one day he was disillusioned.
He was walking again by the rive
Nile. Now. instead of being a chile
he was q man In middle life, or abou
forty years old. While he was wall
ing along the river bank he saw a
Egyptian oyerseer begin to abuse on
| Of the slaves. Moses was noted 10
his meekness, but he raised his sta
and smote the Egyptian and Killed nii
I'm his tracks. Then what happened
Moses ceased to be a prince. AS
fugitive slave, he was tracked 1roi
place to place. AS a Hebrew rug
tive he had to flee death as RAJ
bit runs from the baying OF II
hounds. BY bitter personal experlen'
he learned only too we'll what the poo
Hebrews had to suffer under the ago
Izing strokes of the Egyptian sla'
masters. My friends, did you ev'
, stop to think that God has sent yo
, bitter troubles In order to make yo
, sympathize with those who are tro
, bled In life? Did you ever stop
: think that God has taken away yol
little child In order that you mig
, | become a gospel emancipator for q
. sufferings of your fellow men! II
: lands of INDIAN to which you go a
, the sacred places where man comes
contact with God, but also where q
sympathetic heart Of man learns
.. J throb in unison with the sufteriI
hearts of his enslaved brothers al
sisters down in faroff Egypt.
o Learning to Sympethize.
. II is only when a man like Paul n
!. been the chief Of sinners that he kno'
!. how to lead others into the gosp
d peace. 1t is only when a woman d
k stood by the casket Of dear huspal
b that she is fully equipped to carry
v tcomforting message to the newly WI
q | owed heart. The story Is told u
8 many years ago King Henry OF Ell
L land. in disguise, was arrested by I
royal guards as a thief for prowli
4? around the palace grounds and carrl
l. off to jail at Poultry -Compter. Tne
q he stayed all the night long IN
n damp cell, shivering and hungry
s. sooner was the king liberated than
y commanded that all the prisoners
L. Compter should In future have
u and food to eat Thus is 1t with m
II of US. God locks US In jail In or
"a that we may sympathize with
IL x,,orld,a nrisOnprs He lays us VI