Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-16
CalmaSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. ID. ID.

practical training and development as
q great leader so there are periods In
our own lives when we seem to be
hopelessly sidetracked by suffering,
trial or misfortune. all Of which are
needed to bring out the better quail
ties of our nature. The text Is Ex-
odus II, Is. But Moses fed from the
face OF Pharaoh and dwelt In the land
of Midlan."
Hunger and hardship prove torture
to all men who endure them, yet they
entail the greatest suffering when they
assail men who have once dwelt In
the palaces Of luxury. 1t is harder to
be pauper after one has once been
silk robed prince than 1t Is to be pau
per when one has always been accus-
toned to wear rags Moses would not
have felt the hot, blistering sands OF
the desert as he did, nor would his
parched lips or his blistered tongue |
have been so distressing, IL his desert |
Journey when he was fleeing away |
from Egypt to the land Of INDIAN,
near to old Mount Sinai, had been TAX |
en- by a man who had never been any
thing else but Hebrew slave. Mo |
ses. II Is true, had been born of a
slave, but he had been accustomed to
luxury through the adoption by which |
he became the son Of Pharaoh's daugh-
tel. The finest garments crowded his
wardrobe. The most costly yiands
were In his larder. The richest OF pal
aces were his domiciles. The most
learned sages conversant with all
Egyptian lore were his teachers. The
softest Of couches were his resting
places. All that wealth and love could
give were lavished upon him as child,
boy and a man. Now as handsome
prince and as one Of the keenest intel
lects of the world, as an epicurean,
who looked upon the rarest luxuries OF
life as his necessities, we suddenly
find him hunted fugitive, fleeing
from his foster mothers home with
price upon his head. He Is charged
with the crime Of murder. But, worse
than that. his crime Is aggravated by
the fact that the murdered man was
an Egyptian who was cruelty abusing
one of the Hebrew slaves. In other
words. Moses was hated as the cham
MON of an alien race, that race race
of slaves. AS an Egyptian prince ne
had dared stand up and espouse the
cause and the rights Of the Hebrew
slaves. who were the unpaid laborers
of the kingd0mvf tile piaraos'es7-
Moses Blessings.
want to dwell this morning on the
blessings which came to Moses life In
his forty long years Of exile In the
land of the Midlanites. l want 10
sneak about the blessings which came
to Moses in midlife The period he
spent In MidIan extended from the age
Of forty to fifty, and from fifty to sixty,
and from sixty to seventy, and from
seventy to eighty. These twoscore
years of Moses life were In some re-
snects the most momentous OF all
Moses career. Moses spent MS nrst
forty years as q beloved prince IN
Pharaoh's palaces. The second forty
wears he lived In the land OF the
Midianites. The third forty years OF
his life he spent in the wilderness win
the Hebrews. leading them from the
scene of Egyptian enslayement to the
crystal gates Of the Jordan. 1t Is ABOUT
tho eocond enoch of Moses life that
would speak today.
In the first place, God had purpose
in permitting Moses to be driven ihto
exile. 1t was to teach him that COO
thoughts are not as mans thougnts
nor Gods ways as mans ways. Inc
great Jehovah seemed to say 10 tne
future emancipator Of the Hebrew
race: "My son, want to take you
ayay from the palaces of Memphis
and the temple of Karnak and all the
repulslve heather worship OF tne
Egvptians. want you to be alone
with me out In the desert sands l
want to talk with you and have you
talk with me. l want you to learn
about the God of Abraham and Isaac
and Jacob. I want you to be truly
my child and not be q worshiper Oh
cows. and bulls, and rams, and croco-
diles. and cats, and lions, and frogs
and fishes, and hawks, and falcons. II
is almost an impossibility for any man
to live In the contaminating spiritual
atmosphere where his loved ones are
worshiping false gods without having
his own spiritual ears dulled. Come
nv child. to the faroff INDIAN ianos
, where in the stiffness Of the day anc
in the stiffness Of the night / can tall
with thee and thou canst taiK VIII
me-" Thus God led Moses far ava!
from the Egyptian temples Into th'
auietude of exile in order that Moses
q might learn Of him and study VIVA
y God wanted him to do.
Was this not a very wise pian
Where In all the world was the aDom
inatIon of heathen worship made NOR
attractive than in old Egyptf Whel
we stand amid the ruins OF Memphls
we find there that the sacred delt.
was worshiped in the form OF Dull
These bulls were allowed to live 10
twenty years. Then they were pu
to death and their bodies embaime
like those Of kings. Then, with grea
ceremony, their bodies were carrie
to magnificent tombs, which tomp
thereafter were looked upon as sacre
shrines. Herodotus, the Greek hist'
rian. tells US that during the reign
.is Rameses II. the funeral Of one OF ID
n bulls cost over $4,000. When you e.
et innate that penny in olden TIM
Vn would hire a laborer for whole da
eu that funeral cost In modern money
:; least a half million Of dollars. AT Sa
th kara the tombs for these sacred bul
ut were cut out Of the solid rock qua
h. | Tor ~ q mile long The SarcOphag1,