The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1907-02-14

ing his sheep down m the pasture
lands near Mount Sinai, where God
was one day to give him the Ten Com
maiidments written on tables Of stone.
His clothes are coarse. His hands
are calIous. The shepherds staff is in
his hands. Why ! hear him say to
himself Il never knew it was so hard
as this to earn your daily bread In
| my foster mothers home we never
worried about our daily food. In the
lSing'$ banquet we used to waste more
| laan We ate. II / ever am to be
leader Of my people, must teach
them net TO be wastefnl. God will al
J ways give rs CROUCH to eat and
T clothes to wear brt waste is sin.
1t should be a crime in mans eyes, as
1t is, sin in Gods sight. Thus Moses
struggle for daily bread scattered
/ away many of the foolish notions he
had about Gods providence and care.
He learned that God meant man to
help himself When Moses led bis peo-
pie through the Red sea, methinks he
often went through the camps and
kept watchful eye upon how his peo-
! pie lived and what they did and how
they cared for the temporal blessings
with which God had surrounded them.
The Uses of Labor.
Some women grumble because so
much of their time has to be spent in
bending over the kitchen stove, and in
making the dresses for the children,
and III sweeping the floors, and in
making the beds, but remember that
by these daily struggles of life God is
teaching you that, though he is will
ing to help you, yet he also expects
you to help yourselves Men, it seems
Ito you that most of your lives have to
be spent in the store. The butchers
bills and the bakers bills and the doc
tors bills must be met. But remem-
her God Is developing you in this
struggle for daily bread. He is saying
to you; Son. have made thee after
my own image, but thou must earn
thy food by the sweat of thy brow.
BY Sthe th0rns and the weeds | am
making thee more and more to learn
that the halvests come from me- l
am God that giveth all. but it is by
the seed planting and the hoe thou
itiost bend the knee and worship at my
shrine Canst thou not thank God be-
cause Moses had to tend sheep down
In the farof land of the 'Midianites?
But I cannot close this sermon with
out driving home one solemn warning
which should sink into every heart.
After this long INDIAN exile, after Mo
|ses had led the children Of Israel
through the Red sea, after he had Civ
en- to the Hebrew people the Ten Com
mandments Of Sinai, what did Moses
do7 He sinned, just as so many other
men have sinned when they have come
| into the temptations of their great life
work. You know the sad, sad story.
Moses sinned down by the rock Of
Meribah, and God said to his great
llawgiver. Moses, because thou hast
sinned thou canst not enter into the
! promised land" Oh, my friends, many
of us have had our indian exiles.
4 Many of MS are today in the full swing
of our life's work. After God has fit
| ted us for our task shall we fail hin?
Wfll he refuse to let us enter the prom
Used land at last because Of our faith
llessnessg 1t was but for moment
and under strong provocation that Mo
ses failed, but that moment excluded
him from the triumph. Let us, too,
watch and be vigilant, for God is strict
with those who have been near him.
We may miss our earthly rest, as Mo
Ises did, but may we never miss the
heavenly haven to which he went when
God buried his body and whence he
came to rejoice with our Lord In his
triumph on the Mount of Transhgura-
ton.
copyright, 1907. by Louis Klopsch.l