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stuck to his fingers. Thus, because he
was honest and made his deputies hon
est, the dishonest officials hated him
and tried to forget his existence. And
one Of TIE surest signs that YOU are
pure and true and honest and upright
md good IL that dishonest people and
impure people try to forget your name
and push you into oblivion
Aristidcs tho just.
You have ell heard the story of the
great general and statesman Aristdes
the Just. Tighter and tighter was
he gripping the hearts Of the Athenian
people. Tnemistocles. his great rival,
realized that In little while, IL Aris-
tides was allowed to move among the
people, his influence would become so
great that no voice would have any
power in Athens but his. SO Tbemisto-
cles gathered all the rough and bad
elements together and started move
ment to Danish Aristides from the city.
On the day Of the election peasant
approached Aristides and asked his
help In voting against Aristides. why,
what damage has h. done?" Aristdes
asked HAS he done any wrong that
you would drive him from this capt.
talf' No." answered the peasant,
mot that I know of. do not even
know him, put II initiates me to hear
him everywhere called the Just" And
so the carrion birds would, IL they
could. always drive the clean winged
birds from the heavens. The dishonest
Egyptians would ohliterate the name
OF Joseph, the prime minister, from the
list of their national heroes. And. my
brother II the dissolute do not despise
Won and the unjust hate you. and the
evil minded want to forget YOU. then
you should examine your heart and
life, fearing lest you are growing like
them. The surest sign on earth that
you are living good pure life IS that
bad people want you out Of their sight
Now there arose up new king over
Egypt which knew not Joseph"
But, lastly, l remark that the Egyp-
tians ceased to revere Joseph's men,
DRY because they did not believe that
the God who sent Joseph to save them
was the same God who sent Moses to
punish them. And yet is not the Egyp-
uans' error our errorf After God for
years has been sending to us our 10
sephs. after he has showered innumer-
able blessings upon us, are we not apt
to say: God is good" God is kind
and forgiving," God ts loving end he
will never send the rolling surges Of
his Red sea OF judgment tumbling down
ka To-
cy Of God! How long, o God, how
long wilt thou stay thine avenging
hand from US? How long shall we
cease to forget that love and trsmple
upon thy patience? Some tine ago
there G. re into my possession won
derfcl picture. It was one Of Dore's
masterpieces.
ecene In the Coliseum.
The scene was the Roman coliseum.
1t was night All those immense tierY
Of seats, capable of holding 100 600
spectators, were deserted. There you
could see them in dim outline. As you
looked at them you could see In mag
nation those seats again filed with
the yelling, vcciferant multitudes who
during the long, hot day tast passed
had watched the glndiatorial contests
and the numbering CT the Christians.
But, though those tiers Of seats were
empty, the arena was not That
arena was filed with great piles
of human corpses. There were moth
ers there. even in death hugging their
dead babies to their breasts There
men and old women. But they wers
dead-all dead. And among the silent
corpses you could see the hungry lions
creeping or crouching. But over all
this scene of death Dore has let a
light hover. and through this light can
be seen Gods angels. With their out
stretched wings and outstretched hands
the celestial messengers seem to be
blessing the dead-aye, blessing the
bodies Of the dead, whose spirits wero
then with God. But as sat watching
that powerful wondrous picture I kept
saying to myself God may bless his
dead. God may redeem his dead. But
God avenging hand will surely strike
those who will persist in striking him.
Bloody Nero. didst thou not think God
would strike thee when thou didst
strike him? Pharaoh. who knew not
Joseph, didst thou dream that Moses
would yet come to desoate thy king.
dom7'
But. though the Egyptians may have
forgotten Joseph. thank God the chill
dren Of Israel did not forget him.
see that great army Of 1000 900 start
away from Egypt on that passover
night. They are in haste. but they
wait at burial place. They are bur-
dened, but they take up a coffin and
carry it away with them. Whose body
Is it they take? 1t is the body OF Jo-
seph, who was not known TO Pharaoh.
They carried those bones through the
Rea sea- they carried them through
the wilderness; they carried them over
the Jordan: then they carried them
near to Jacobs we'll where they were
buried. So is II with every faithful
servant of God, Though the world
forgets his lrrvices, though his very
name sinks ITO oblivion, his record ia
written in the book of Gods remem-
brance. and at the resurrection he will
stand among the people of God.
copyright. 1907, BY Louis Kiopsch.,