The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25
Childhood and Edu- cation of Moses Sunday School Lesson for May 26. 1907
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LESSON TEXT.-Exodus 2:1-15. Mem- ory verses. 9. 1O
 GOLDEN TEXT.-"Moses was learned In all the wisdom of the Egyptians. and was mighty in words and deeds Acts 7:22
 TIME.-Moses was born probably dur ing the reign of Harnesses IT., which last ed 67 years. Harnesses dying at the age of nearly loo. Sayce gives the limits of his reign B. C. l34s-l2S1; Driver, 1275- 12OS; Breasted. 1292-122S According to the common chronology. Moses was born B. C. 1511 and our lesson. covering the first 70 years of his life. would extend to 1531. PLACE-Moses was born at the capital of Egypt. which at that time was either Memphis. nearly where modern Cairo is, or Tanis (Zoan) in the eastern part of the Nile delta
 Comment and Suggestive Talk.
 The Working of Gods PIans.-See what factors entered into this preser- vation of the worlds greatest man. There was CD humble slave family; @ a little basket of bulrushes; (3) little girl; (4 a baby's tears; (5) Pharaohs own daughter (6) the child's own mother; CD a royal court. All of these were brought together at just the right time, in just the right way. This lesson is one of the best illustrations of perfect combination of the best co-working of human effort and divine providences.
 The Court Life of Moses.-"The ia vor of the kings only daughter and presumptive heir made his life in these early years one long, unclouded summer morning, for all that wealth and power could command were at his service. ."-Geikie. He would live chiefly in the apartments of his moth CT, which would probably be a portion of the royal residence, and would be furnished with every luxury. Raw linson. Yet life at Pharaoh's court, amid all its attractions and advant- ages, must have had some drawbacks. Egyptian youths and Egyptian court iers could not be altogether cordial to the Hebrew boy, who, as the grand son of Pharaoh enjoyed so exalted a position, and received such eminent attention. ."-Blailde
 The School Life of Moses.-Egypt then had two great universities, at Heliopolis and Hermopolis. and Moses is said to have studied in the former, north of Memphis. It was ''the OK ford of Ancient Egypt" as Alexandria was in later times. Herodotus went thither to gather information for his travels, and Plato studied there for Is years. Shady cloisters opened in to lecture rooms for the students. and quiet houses for the professors and priests. in their many grades and of hces; there being room for all in the corridors of the huge pile. A splendid library would be at his dis posal. The library of the Rameseum at Thebes-a structure built by Rame- ses II.-contained 10000 books.
 The studies of the young man would include the two forms of difficult egyptian writing, arithmetic, geomet- ry, trigonometry to some extent, as tronomy, music, both vocal and instru-
 Nei' pdiHtiuS anu diChitcSluiV, medicine and chemistry, history and law, poetry and other branches of lit erature, and especially theology, ex- tending to it's highest form, the phil osophy of symbolism" in which the Egyptian religion, gross as it was, came nearest to the Hebrew. As a member of the royal family. Moses was no doubt. received into the priest
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