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| him with reference TO his hygienic
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 oil that Yet
today It Is admitted by hygenic au
thorities that no dietary system has
yet been devised which can give more
assurance Of longer or healthier life
than that system which Moses promnl
gated IN his hvcienic laws for the He
brew people nearly 1000 years ago.
Study his land laws. under which the
people every seven years received
back the titles TO their old honestends.
Do you not believe that Moses way
| wHs better than our way. where 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 es-
tabishng the ten cities Of refuge.
Take all those marvellous precautions
for protecting human life which he
made including even the building of
battlements or balustrades about the
roof of the house so that guest
might not fall off and kill himself.
And then, most wonderful of all In
those times of theft and debauchery
and Righteousness. study those mar
velous Ten Commandments which he
gave to tho people from Mount Sinai.
MY friend IL 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.
But Moses was more than creator
Of laws. He was n direct miracle
worke err as well. Tie was such work
or Of miracles that If we do not ac
copt those miracles az emanating from
him then we should he compelled to
regard him as q fabulous character.
But he was a miracle worker rs Christ
was miracle worker "Oh." l 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 n 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 Ale1nndrian era,
: and the Roman conQuerors in the
times Of Julius and Augustus Caesar,
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
t 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
t intellectual giants. there was col
lection of Hebrews. These Hebrews
were slaves, deprived of all books.
g They could not learn the science OF
arms. They were brutally abused
They We're killed off every year by the
$ hardest kind Of manual labor. AS a
P people they We're more cowed and
downtrodden than the black slave
ever was. Now, who liberated these
I men? Who was the Spartacus who
rallied the Hebrew people about him
There was no Spartacus, because there
Up1,rap c1pypc who in the
o slightest respect knew the science OF
q war. These Hebrew slaves We're lib
q erated-that is true--but how? BY one
man walking into the kings palace
;, and defyng the king with one little
A wand. But behind that wand was the
q omnipotent God. That one man. by
. the power of that one stick. made the
;, | mightiest nation on earth bow its knee
o and beg for mercy Oh, you say,
deny that was ever done. Then, my
8. friend. as student of history yor
q have 10 deny the facts which we FIND
q recorded upon the tombs and the mon
. uments of the dead Pharaoh. How
!, are you going to get around this ties
;, timony of the miracle worker Nose:
q in reference to God?
But l am not done with this miracle
y worker Moses. | used TO think tina
the most marvellous facts recorded II
: the Bible were those plaques Of Egypt
!. When MS an imaginative boy rea(
: them | could feel In horror the lice
r, crawling over me and the frogs jump
Il ing at ME and the grasshonpers or thu
/, locusts buzzing about me- and l coult
- taste the blood of the river Nile, and
q could feel the awful darkness pressing
:, down upon me. But the older ! grow
the more these miracles sink into In
:, significance before one tremendous fac
= Of Moses life. That fact Is create
than Moses crossing the Red sea. |
Is greater than Moses and the Tel
=. Commandments. 1t is the fact tina
Moses could have led 100000 Israelite
nut into the wilderness and supportc,
= them there for nearly forty years
where there was not one spear Of gras
:, growing and practically not one ,dro
:" Of water How did he do It? Tha
:. fact is the greatest miracle of all tn
y Bible. Believe that and You can be
:, lieve the miraculous conception o
Jesus Christ and the resurrection O
!. Easter day and the ascension fror
- Mount Olivet. Aye, YOU can bcliev
anything written in the Bible, / car