The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-04-26
THE EMILE OF MOSES
Rev. Or. Talmage Tells OF the
Hebrew Leaders Discipline
AZ the Hardships and suHsrings He
Experienced He Was Pre-
pared For His Great
Work.

Moses exile was necessary FOR DIS
nractleal training and development as
n great leader so there are periods Ia
onr own lives when we seem 20 be
bonclesslv sidetracked by suffering.
trial or misfortune. an Of which arc
needed 10 bring out the better quail
ties OF our nature. The text is FIX
odus II. Is. "But Moses fed from the
face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land
Of INDIAN"
Hunger and hardship prove torture
10 an men who endure them. yet they
entail the greatest suffering when they
assail men who have once dwelt in
the palaces Of luxury. 10 is harder TO
be a pauper after one has once been a
silk ROBBED prince than it is TO be pau
per when one has always been accus-
toned TO wear rags. Moses would not
have felt the hot, blstcring sands of
the desert as ne did nor would his
parched lips or his blistered tongue
have been so distressing. if his desert
tourney 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 a Hebrew slave Mo-
ses. ii is true. had been born of a
slave. but he had been accustomed 90
luxury through the adoption hy which
he became the son Of pharaoh's daueh-
ter. The finest garments crowded his
wardrobe. The most costly viands
were in his larder. The richest of pal
aces were his domiciles. The most
learned sages couversant 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 a child.
a boy and a man. Now as a handsome
prince and as one Of the kccncst intel
lects Of the world, as an epIcurcan,
who looked upon the rarest Injuries Of
life as his necessities, we suddenly
find him a hunted fugitive fleeing
from his foster mothers home with "a
price upon his head lie is charged
with the crime Of murder But worse
than that his crime is aggravated hy
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
pion Of an alien race that race race
Of slaves. AS an Egyptian prince be
had dared stand up and espouse the
cause and the rights of the Hebrew
slaves. who were the unpaid lab0rers
Of the kingdom of the pharaohs
want TO dwell this morning ON the
blessings which came to Moses life I'm
his forty long years of exile in the
land Of the Midianites. / want to
speak about the blessings which came
10 Moses in midlife The period he
spent in INDIAN extended from the axe
Of forty to fifty, and from fifty TO sixty,
and from sixty 10 seventy. and from
seventy to eighty. These twoscore
years Of Moses life were in some re-
spects the most mOmentOus of all
Moses career. Moses spent his first
forty years as a beloved prince i'm
PharaOh's palaces. The second forty
years he lived I'm the land of the
Midlanites. The third forty years of
his life he spent In the wilderness with
the Hebrews, leading them from the
scene OF Egyptian enslayement 20 the
crystal gates of the Jordan. It is about
the second epoch of Moses life that ]
would speak today.
In the first place. God had purpose
I'm permitting Moses 10 be driven into
exile. 1t was to teach him that Gods
thoughts are not as mans thoughts
nor Gods ways as mans ways. The
great Jehovah seemed to say to the
future emancipatOr Of the Hebrew
race: MY son. l want 10 take you
away from the palaces Of Memphis
and the temple Of Karnak and all the
repulslve heather worship of the
Egyptians. l want you 10 De alone
with me out I'm the desert sands /
want TO talk with you and have you
talk with me- | want you TO learn
about the God Of Abraham and Isaac
and Jacob. l want you TO be truly |
my child and not be a w0rshiper of |
cows, and bulls, and rams, and croco- /
dies. and cats. and IONS, and frogs, /
and fishes, and hawks. and falcons Ii /
is almost an impossibility for any man /
10 live IN the cOntaminating spiritual |
where his loved ones are |
false gods without having |
bis own spiritual ears dulled. Come |
my child, TO the faroff INDIAN lands. |
where In the stiffness Of the day and /
In the stiffness Of the night can talk |
with thee and thou canst talk with
me-" Thus God led Moses far away
from the Egyptian temples into the
luietude Of exile I'm order that Moses
might learn of him and study what
God wanted him 10 do
Was this not a very wise plan?
Where in all the world was the abom-
nation Of heather worship made more
attractive than I'm old Egypt? When
we stand amid the ruins Of Memphis.
we find there that the sacred deity
was worshiped i'm the form Of a bull.
These bulls were allowed TO live for
twenty years. Then they were put
10 death and their bodies embalmed
Ike those Of kings Then. with great
ceremony. their bodies were carried
10 magnificent tombs. which tomhs
thereafter were looked upon as sacred
'hrines. Herodotus. the Greek hisio-
-ian. tells MS that during the reign of
Rameses IL. the funeral OF one of the
bulls cost over $4,000. When you es.
Innate that a penny in olden times
would hire laborer for a whole day,
hat funeral cost in modern money at
east a half million Of dollars. At SAX
Kara the tombs for these sacred bulls
we're cut out Of the solid rock a quar-
er Of mile long The sarcophagi, or
huge collins. in which the cmbalmed /