The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-08-20

the prophets, neither will they be per.
suaded, though one rose from the
dead"
His Creative Brain.
But Moses brain was not simply re-
ceptive. He had a creative as we'll as
an absorbing intellect. He could give
cut as well as take In. You know that
there are certain intellectual men who
seem to lack the creative faculty.
They learn as parrots learn. When
they take a book they can read 1t
through and repeat the pages almost
verbatim. They can index their minds
SO that you can hardly ask them a
question which they cannot answer.
They are like some Of the honor stu
dents Of our college days who always
stood at the head Of their classes. yet
when they entered life's struggle they
were abject failures because they nev
er could create any new ideas of their
own. Like sheep, they may be led
but, unlike the shepherds, they cannot
hunt up new pastures, and when lost
they have not Intelligence enough to
pioneer their way into a safe fold.
Now, Moses had creative as well
as an absorbing intellect AS we study
this gigantic genius we know no.
which to admire the most-the power
by which he absorbs knowledge or the
power by which he creates new knowl
edge. Study him any way you will
aon hut no nd
him with reference to his hygieni,
laws. We have gone on In our inves
legations in dietary developments. We
have our vegetarian theories and our
two meals day theories and our
hot water theories and all that. le:
today 1t Is admitted by hygieni" an
thOrities that no dietary system has
yet been devised which can give more
assurance Of longer or healthier ii e
than that system which Moses promul
gated in his hygienic laws for the He
brew people nearly 1000 years ago
Study his land laws. under which the
people every seven years receive |
back the titles to their old hOmestead-.
Do you not believe that Moses way
was better than our way, where n few
men can gObble up all our coal lands
and copper lands and timber lands
and farm lands and then say to the
rest of the people, Now starve. for
we are to be the land kings forever
Take the protection which he gave to
the people in the right Of trial by cs
tablishing the ten cities Of refuge,
Take all those marvellous precautions
for protecting human life which h"
made. including even the building o.
battlemcnts or balustrades about the
roof Of the house so that guest
might not fall off and kill himself
And then, most wonderful of all ~
those times Of theft and debauchery
and Righteousness study those mar,
velous Ten Commandments which he
gave to the people from Mount Sinai
My friend, II the Lord God Almighty
did not write those Ten Command
ments for Moses. then Moses himself
was the greatest Of the worlds legis-
lators
Moses as Miracle Worker.
Of laws. He was direct miracle
worker as we'll He was such a work
er Of miracles that If we do not ac-
cept those miracles as emanating from
him then we should be compelled to
regard him as fabulous character
But he was a miracle worker as Christ
was a miracle worker. oh" | hear
some man say. II believe In Jesus.
but not in his miracles" Why. my
friends, you cannot believe in Jesus
unless you believe in his miracles. for
Christ continually appealed to his
miracles as the credentials of his
teaching. And so Moses, through the
power Of God which was given to
him. founded his life work upon
miracles.
Now, study Moses for little while
down in Egypt Here are the Egyp
tians, the greatest. the most warlike
people upon the face Of the earth at
that period. What the Grecian con
querors were in the Alexandrian era.
and the Roman conquerors in the
times of julius and Augustus CaeAJ'.
Egypt was in the time of Moses.
Pharaoh had the mightiest warriors.
the greatest number Of chariOts and a
body of cavalry of which the world
has not produced superior This
kingdom had its great river bordered
with splendid cities and the finest
wheat lands Of the world. Now. in
contrast to these great warriors and
intellectual giants, there was a col
lection of Hebrews. These Hebrews
were slaves, deprived Of all books
They could not learn the science Of
arms. They were brutally abused.
They were killed of every year by the
hardest kind of manual labor. AS a
people they were more cowed and
downtrodden than the black slave
ever was. Now, who liberated these
men? Who was the Spartacus who
rallied the Hebrew people about him:
There was no Spartacus, because there
were no Hebrew slaves who in the
slightest respect knew the science Of
war; These Hebrew slaves were lib
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