Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-08-01

The next three days the people were
in culver of excitement, for Moses
had returned. saying that npon thu
third day the Lord would come dowr
upon the mountain in the sight of al
the people.
1--WE have seen God in the Cloud by
day and the Pillar OF FIRE by night
What will this new manifestation be2
And zealously they prepared them
selves for this solemn occasion.
"God hath called us to be priests,
they said one to another, repeating
the words of Moses, and with beau
tiful spirit of submission they fulfilled
all the instructions which Moses had
! given them.
The third day broke as others mad
done and the people were early astir,
prepared to go forth as was their daily
custom and gather the mama, when
from the mountain side about which
had settled thick cloud there burst
thunderings and lightnings. In ter
ror the people threw themselves on
their faces to the ground. and while
thus Frustrated there came a voice
from the mountain side as the sound
of trumpet, exceeding loud 30 that
all the people in the camp heard and
trembled.
Thus Moses found them as he came
through the camp and summoned them
| to follow him. Never before had the
sense. of the majesty and tie power
OF God so filed them, and withuR;
daring to ask why or whittier they
went, they obeyed Moses voice and
arose and went after him. And they
came to the foot of the mountain, at
the point where they had stood three
days before when they had promised
that all that the Lord had spoken
they would do, for now they were to
learn something Of the great God
whom they had so solemnly promised
to obey.
And is it not ever SOP In the fervoI
of the souls better impulses, promises
are made of layalty and obedience, and
then God leads that soul out to q
larger and fuller realization of what
is involved in that promise, which il
the soul had known at first, it would
have trembled and drawn back from
uttering the pledge. Thus it is that
God seeks ever to urge the soul on
and on upward toward him.
What sight that was which burst
upon the startled vision of the Israel
lies. They had seen the religious fes'
tivlties in Egypt and had Looked upon
the gods which the Egyptians wor'
shipped, but surely here was living
God, for the mount was altogether or
smoke. And fire and smoke as
cended as from a furnace, and the
whole mount did quake, while the
voice like trumpet again sounded
forth as it had on the previous occa'
sion.
But now it waxed louder and loud
err, until Moses lifted up his voice and
spake, and God did answer him, &c
that all the people heard. And God
called Moses up to him in the mount
and Moses went up.
And ali the people cav the thunder
ings and the lightnings, and the noise
Of the trumpet. and the mountain
smoking, and they feared greatly
They saw Moses disappear into the
midst OF the smoking, trembling noun
tain, they knew that he was talking
with one who had given them great
and blessed promises and planned on
ly good for them, and yet the thought
of their God and his law was to them
a thing not to be loved but feared
even as the conception Of many souls
| to-day gives them not God of love
but God of discipline and judgment,
as though his law. and his Judgments
had been ordered for their destruction
instead q their instruction and their
salvation. And the people then, as
do people today when God manifests
himself in some mighty way, removed
from the foot of the mountain and
stood afar off. And as Moses came
| again into their midst they cried:
"speak thou with US and we will
hear; but let not God speak with US
lest we de-"
And Moses said unto the people:
"Fear not, for the Lord is come to
| prove you, and that his fear may be
before your faces that ye sin not.
Ten Years In Bed.
"For ten years was confined to my
bed with disease of my kidneys" write:
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