The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-28
International SundayScho
 Lesson
Third Quarter. Lesson XIII. septem-
 her 20. 1907.


 The grandeur of Moses cannot be ex- aggerated. He towers sublimely from any angle: physical or mental, eth- ical or spiritual No wonder, dreaming of him, Angelo created the most ter rife and noble thing ever done with chisei, and Cowley wrote his greatest poem. and Lord Macaulay used his consummate art in words
 A peoples proverbs are often whole biography in epitome. Jewish proverbs concerning Moses are: When the tale of the bricks Is doubled, then comes Moses" and From Moses to, Moses (Maimonides) there is none like Moses" Moses's name survives to this day in the wells, mountains and val leys of the wilderness. The earliest literature of his nation also bears his name. He Is a synonym for the law he gave. thus the common phrase Is. Moses and the prophets The nation is said to have been baptized to him in the Red Sea- Very significantly the MussuIman gave him the surname,
 the spoken of God.
 It is apt to be forgotten that among the number of his functions he was not by any means insignificant as military commander. He was Joshua's teach
 CT in the art of war, and was himseii
 q great. courageous, and skiilful sol
 
 sIhon. og. and Amalek are in evi-
 dence. -
 Thougn the meekness of Moses has
 nassed into a proverb, 1t Is probably
 moi more true that he was pre-eminent.
 lv meek" than that he had horns.
 Both ideas probably arise from ms,
 translations. Tn the Vu1gate the wor1
 for ray stands cornutam, as IS wei M
 known. Michael Aneglo has perpetu-
 In fu
 ses in St Peter in Chains. On the otn-
 or hand. this man who dashed the
 ESvntian 10 death and the stone taoies
 of the law to fragments could naIuiy
 ha called meek. A better transiation
 .,,,,,la he ..disinterested." Of this no-
 hls ouaIity there is abundant evidence
 It ts this which makes Moses not o,ily,
 as has been said, the most conpies se
 example of Jewish patriotism, put
 patriotism universally. II ms he
 cannot he forgiven for their sin, ne
 sa.rs mat he may himself be piotteo
 s.,t of Iahoyah's book. More than
 o~ca ha foregoes the opportunity ~
 S,a.o,,a tbe founder of new eHpite
 =, thS aisnlacement of his own race.
 Ga does not nominate any son or nls
 tc h- his successor, but in dying prays
 Jehovah to set the best ana
 man over his congregation. oa
 Ts.
 r.. aarirness. Moses stood for two IT. ,,,rtrstinr , truths The first concern
 nA tha Divine nature. It affirmed the
 ,nitv. spirituality. holiness, ana Dehs acence of God. This was an ihcalcul
 atIa watu to humanity and an immeas-
 rrahie advance upon the dominant noIvtheIsrn. It was the knen or the nantheon of cruel and lustIul oeities' The second great truth reiateo 70 ns- man nature, and affirmed ioVe tha essential basis of the sociai HIe.
 rt ssaus almost incredible that such an ethIca1 principle could have been arst irradiated in such an age. Ihefe was nothing in the natural environ r.e1,t of Moses to suggest and fnculcate it If ia easy to believe he had lt l from God. These are the spienoiu truths which carry over from the oL9 Testament into the New with tnelf hull weight and are the heart ana soul "A | f. The Divine nature, love; the -hu- man duty, love to God and man.
 But the PentSteuch is not mere "Mo~ said :" This towering personality does not absorb everything into himself. Here is the evolution of a nation, law, a creed, and a worship. AS sucn this literature is worthy of that ao- sorbed and admiring study which 1t mas never failed to receive. The astonish- ing exodus of the enslaved people. their escape from bondage to be the nigh-
 est nation of antiquity. fascinates the reader like a romance. It was as IT they received their christening as nation in the sea which opened Tor their passage. Egypt was the furnace where, in the fellowship of suffering they had been fused into the solidity of national form. The wilderness was Gods schoolhouse, where they were further taught and trained. There he suffered their manners with tn- finite patience. their 'murmurings," and their shameful apostasy in their return to the worship of the Egyptian Apis All the instruction of Egypt and the
 wilderness Is, as it were, concreted in the DecaIogue. These ten words" are the basic principles from which all
 human codes have since been devel- oped. Like the steel frame which holds a towering modern structure together, the Ten Commandments are the fn-
 visible framework of society. Compre-
 hensiveness is the characteristic or this unique ethical code. The com
 mandment is exceedingly broad. It Is miracle in words that such num- Der and variety of duties could be in- cluded in terms so brief. That Is the power and utility of it. The Penta- teuch Is also as has been said, the ev- oIution of 6 creed, the solemn and stately terms of which are: Hear, Q Israel, the Lord our God Is our Lord"
 Finally, it is the evolution of wor-
 ship whose ritual was the purest, most significant, and elevating the world had ever seen.
 The Teachers Lantern.
 Lesson I-God feeds Israel in the wilderness: IsraeIs supreme and in-
 veterate error, after all, was not only
 that he distrusted Gods providence as 1 to his food, but that he regarded that fool itself as the chief thing he was to live for. But this is not the error | of Israel. 1t is the error of humanity. | It was this Jesus confronted when He ] said, Say not, What shall we eat?" | And again. Man shall not live by l bread alone" Mere living Is not the l end of life.
 Lesson 1.-The Ten Commandments: | Duties to God. The Decalogue is the | cradle of all codes. The first table con- | tained the commandments respecting | CD other gods, (2) images. t3) the name of God, (4) the Sabbath.
 Lesson III.-The Ten Commandments: l Duties to men. The first table Is evil | dently the basis of the second. The ] last six commandments flow naturally l out of the first four. The second CD ! parents, CD murder, (9) adultery, (D | stealing, (5) false witness, (6) covet- l ousness.
 Lesson Iv.-The golden calf This was the occasion on which the Israeli | ites In their hearts turned back to Egypt, as stephen affirmed. That gilt | tarIr., tpnaoa carried in the van would