The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1907-02-14
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I sermon
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By Rev.
Prank ne witt Talmase. D. D.

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 10.-In this
sermon the preacher shows that as
Moses exile was necessary for his
practical training and development as
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 Elk
odus Ill H. S~But Moses fed from the
face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land
of INDIAN
Hunger and hardship prove torture
to all men who endure them. vet they
entail tile greatest suffering when they
assail men who have once dwelt in
the palaces Of luxury. 1t is harder to
be a pauper after one has once been
silk robed prince than it is to be pau
per when one has always been accus-
toned to wear rags. Moses would not
nave felt the hot. clustering 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 u man who had never been any
thing else but a Hebrew slave. Mo
ses, Il is true, had been born of a
slave, but. he had been accustomed to
luxury through the adoption by which
be became the son OF Pharaoh's daugh-
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
ieavned sages conversant with all
Egyptian lore were his teachers. The
softest OF couches were his resting
places. All that wealth and love could
givew were lavished upon him as child.
boy and man, Now as a handsome
prince and az one OF the keenest intel
lecta OF the world, as an, epfcurean,
whsy looked upon the rarest luxuries of
life as his necessities, we suddenly
Hnd iilnz a hunted fugitive, fleeing
from his foster mothers home with a
price upon his head He Is charged
with the crime of murder. But, worse
k4HtA t16t, HIS CkAAuE Is d6k Ny
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 he
had dared stand up and espouse the
cause and the rights of the Hebrew
slaves, who were the unpaid laborers
Of,tle Kingdom Of the pharaohs.
Moses Blessings.
Iwant to dwell this morning on the
blessings which came to Moses life in
his forty long years of exile in the
land Of the Midianites. I want to
speak about the blessings which came
to Moses FIJI midlife The period he
spent In INDIAN extended from the age
offorty to fifty, and from fifty to sixty,
and from sixty to seventy, and from
seventy to eighty. These twosc0re
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 in
Pharaohss palaces. The second forty
years he lived in the land Of the
Mldzanites. The third forty years Of
his life he spent In the wilderness with
the Hebrews, leading them from the
scene Of Egyptian enslavement to the
crystal gates OF the Jordan. 1t Is about
the second epoch Of Moses life that
would speak today.
In the first place. God had purpose
In permitting Moses to be driven into
exile. 1t was to teach him that Gods
thougnts are not as mans thoughts
Znor Gods ways as mans ways. The
&gfeat Jehovah seemed to say to the
uture emancipator of the Hebrew
race: MY son, / want to take you
kAWay from the palaces of Memphis
h the temple OF Karnak and ali the
epNlsive heather worship of the
Egyptians. want you to be alone
with me out in the desert sands. l
want to talk with you and have you
talk with me. / want you to learn
3about the God of Abraham and Isaac
Sand Jacob. [ want you to- be truly
my child and not be a worshiper of
cows, and bulls, and rams, and croco-
dies. and eats. and lions, and frogs,
and fishes, and hawks, and falcons. 1t
ie almost an impossibility for any man
to live in the communicating spiritual
atmosphere where his loved ones are
worshipIng false gods without having
his own spiritual ears dulIed. Come,
my child, to the faroff INDIAN lands,
where Ia the stiffness OF the day and
Ia 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
Quletude OF exile in order that Moses
might learn Of him and study what
God wanted him to do
Was this not a very wise plan?
where IN an the world was the abom-
nation OF heathensw worship made more
attractive than in old Egypt? When
wesst&nd amid the ruins Of Memphis
ws -fnd here -aat .he saesad deity