Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-08-23

roof OF the house so that n guest
might not fall Off and kill himself.
And then, most wonderful OF all I'm
those times OF theft and debauchery
and RIGHTEOUSNESS, study those mar
velous Ten Commandments which he
gave to the people from Mount Sinai
My friend, II the Lord God Almighty
did not write those Ten Command.
ments for Moses. then Moses himself
was the greatest of the worlds legis-
lators.
Moses as Miracle Worker.
But Moses was more than a creator
OF laws. He was direct miracle
er of miracles that if we do not ac-
cept those miracles as emanating from
him then we should be compelled to
regard him as a fabulous character
But he was a miracle worker as Christ
was a miracle worker. "Oh" l hear
some man say, II believe in Jesus.
but not in his miracles" Why, my
friends, you cannot believe I'm Jesus
unless you believe In his miracles, for
Christ continually appealed to his
miracles as the credentials of his
teaching. And so Moses, through the
power of God which was given to
him, founded his life work upon
miracles.
Now, study Moses for q little while
down In Egypt Here are the Egyp-
tians. the greatest, the most warlike
people upon the face OF the earth a.
that period. What che Grecian con-
Querors were I'm the Alexandrian era,
and the Roman conquerors in the
times of Julius and Augustus Caesar,
Egypt was in the time of Moses.
Pharaoh had the mightiest warriors,
the greatest number Of chariots and a
body of cavalry OF which the world
has not produced a superior. This
kingdom had its great river bordered
with splendid cities and the finest
wheat lands of the world. Now, in
contrast tc these great warriors and
intellectual giants, there was a col
lection OF Hebrews. These Hebrews
were slaves, deprived of all books.
They could not learn the science Of
arms. They were brutally abused.
They were killed Off every year by the
hardest kind of manual labor. AS
people they were more cowed and
downtrodden than the black slave
ever was. Now, who liberated these
men? Who was the Spaftacus who
rallied the Hebrew people about him?
There was no Spartacus, because there
were no Hebrew slaves who in the
slightest respect knew the science of
war. These Hebrew slaves were lib
erated-that is true-but how? BY one
man walking into the kings palace
and defying the king with one little
wand. But behind that wand was the
omnipotent God. That one man. by
the power of that one stick, made the
mfghtieSt nation on earth bow its knee
ana beg for mercy. oh, you say,
deny that was ever done. Then, my
friend, as student of history you
have to deny the facts which we find
recorded upon the tombS and the mon
uments of the dead Pharaoh. How
are you going TO get around this tes-
timony of the miracle worker Moses
in reference to God?
But am not done with this miracle
worker Moses. | used to think that
the most marvellous facts recorded in
the Bible were those plaques of Egypt.
When as an imaginative boy | read
them l could feel in horror the lice
crawling over me and the frogs Jump
Ing at me and the grasshoppers or the
locusts buzZing about me. and / could
taste the blood OF the river Nile. and I
could feel the awful darkness pressing
down upon me. But the older l grow
the more these miracles sink into In
significance before one tremendous fact
OF Moses life. That fact Is greater
than Moses crossing the Red sea. II
Is greater than Moses and the Ten
Commandments. 1t is the fact that
Moses could have led 1900, 600 Israelites
out into the wilderness and supported
them there for nearly forty years,
where there was not one spear of grass
growing and practically not one drop
OF water. How did he do It? That
fact is the greatest miracle OF all the
Bible. Believe that and you can be-
Heve the miraculous conception of
Jesus Christ and the resurrection of
Easter day and the ascension from
Mount Ollvet. Aye, you can believe
anything written in the Bible, + care
not Wnere you may IND II.
The Wilderness Was Barren.
The wilderness OF the Old Testament
Is wilderness OF rock and sand. That
region lies to the northeast of Mount
Sinai. That region is the driest re-
gion in all the east outside OF the Sa-
hara desert. There is no living crea-
ture there except the venomous SER
pent. You may have seen the horrible
picture called death Valley and It's
Harvest" There in the valley where
SO many miners have met their death
Is poor. starving, thirsty, dying pros
pector. In his delirium he sees noun
tains and brooks and bubbling springs.
But sand, endless sand, only is around
him. So is the desert where Moses
led the children of Israel and kept
them there for nearly forty years. II
Is wilderness OF rock and desolation.
How did he feed these 10000 men
and women and children? How did he
give them drink where no river was
flowing? Tell me, We scoffers of the
Bible, how did this Hebrew leader
do 1t unless he did 1t by the power of
God? Why, the miracle of a dead
man rising up out of his grave and tes-
Trying to you of the divinity OF Jesus
Christ is not to be compared to this
miracle worker In the desert of the
forty years wandering. If We will
not believe Moses and the prophets.
neither will ye believe though one rose
from the dead Hear IT, man! By
Moses testimony hear iti
Then we have Moses the prophet as
well as Moses the miracle worker. 4