The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-12


that funeral cost in modern money 1T
least half million of dollars. At SAX
kara the tomhS for these sacred bulls
were cut>out Of the solid rock Il quar-
ter of Il mile long. The sarcophagi. or
huge collins. i'll which the embalme8
bodies of these bulls were placed were
cut out of one monster stone thirteen
feet long, seven feet wide and eleven
feet high.
The Egyptian Temples.
Then what beautiful temples We're
erected for the worship of these Egyp-
: tian animals. Never in all the wide
world have there been more beautiful
buildings than those ancient temples
of Kardusseh and philae and Aboo
Simbel and kom UmboO and Adfu6
and Esnek and karnak where the
pharaohs Worshiped, and Medeenet
Habo0 and Luxor and Kurneh Truly,
like Paul standing on Mars hill. when
we see these huge structures we can
eXclafm, eye men of old Egypt 6 per-
ceive that i'll 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
owe of those columns is covered with
tie most exquisite carvings. SO in
finite are these carvings that, like
,S,.;,, fr,I Of Il 1,nip
vitlual beauties are lost in the multi
tude of the wonders. Do you wonder,
amid the pernicious influences of such
heather worship, that God said TO
Moses, the adopted son of Pharaohs
daughter: Come. my child-come to
indian lands. ComAnto 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 to learn Of Gods
thoughts and Gods ways, we, as Gods
children, should have our INDIAN eN
Hes
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 hal to he taught by bitter
experience what it was to suffer injuS-
tice before he was fitted to he the
emancipation of Hebrew race groan
ing aad suffering amid the fortunes of
Egyptian slavery. lie had to lift to
his lips the chalice of woe filed with
his own scalding tears and drink the
cup Of sorrow to the dre@S before he
was fitted to wipe away the tears from
the eyes OF his fellow men. No man
can truly sympathize with Il sick man
unless he has first been sick himself.
No man can truly sympathlZe with the
poor unless, like John Howard Pas ne,
he has not Il place to call his home.
or unless III 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 enes
crying for something to eat and he
has not five cent piece to buy loaf
of bread to ease the Cravings of their
hunger Ah, yes. Moses in that MILAN
only too we'll the injustice which the
Hebrew people in Egyptian slavery
had to suffer! Let us study for Il 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 We're by our parents, "a
dollhouse plant. No rough, sharp
wind was allowed to touch him. He
breathed no bad, vitiated air. His pal
ace bedroom overlooked the wonderful
river Nile There during the lang hot
months he saw the princes and prin
cesses loun9ing in their boats. being pull
ed along by the slaves. Life seemed tob
made up, for the most part, OF music
and dancing and merIyniaking. The.
palace grounds in which the lad Moses
used to play We're a dream of beauty.
Because he was well clothed all p, opie
were well clothed. Because he was
kindly treated all people, if they be-
have themselves. are kindly treated.
But one day he was disillusione.'.
He was walking again by the river
Nile. Now, instead of being child
he was man in middle life, or about
forty years old While he was walk
ing along the river bank he saw ali
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 happened
Moses ceased to be prince. As
fugitive slave, he was tracked from
place to place AS Hebrew fusi
| tive. he had to fee death as rab-
| bit runs from the baying OF the
hounds. BY bitter personal experience
he learned only too well what the p9oi
Hebrews had to suffer under the agon
| lzing 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 te
| think that God has taken away YOU
| little child in order that you might
become a gospel emancipation for thS
eufferings of your fellow men? The
/ lands of indian TO which you go az,
the sacred places where man comes /
contact with God, but also where the
! symDathetic heart of man learns t
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