The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM.
MENTs FOR JUNE 9, BY THE
REV. I. w. HENDERSON.
Subject: Moses Called to Deliver
Israel, Ex. x.3:f-f4--Golden 8: Text:
Ex. 3;t2--Memory Verses, 2-4
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Commentary.

tsraci, Ex.S:i-14-GOlden Text:
Ex. 3;12--Memory Verses, I'd
Commentary.
The call of God to Moses to do
the work which he did among the
children of Israel is shown in the
tnird and the fourth chapters OF the
Dook OF the Exodus. In this call we
md many lessons that are applicable
to human life to-day.
To us each day God comes with a
duty, be 1t great or small, as He came
to Moses in the unconsuming Are Of
the bush at Horeb. To some OF us
1t is given to do work beside which
the work of Moses was a Gigantic
task; to others of us It Is given to
shape the destinies of a people even
as Moses shaped the career OF Israel
moses gave His people a higher, no.
bier, more uplifting economic and
religious system.
Inc first lesson that we have here
Is In the emphasis that is laid on the
holiness of the place where the spec-
1al presence of God Is conceived To
be- To Moses the place about the
burning bush was holy because there
ne conlmuned with God in an espec-
ial and peculiar manner. To-day we
consecrate the house of God to His
use and then oftentimes without any
reasonable excuse whatsoever treat
tnat place without proper and due
consideration. We do not have to
take our shoes off as do the Eastern
peoples when we go into church
Neither should we take off our man
ners or lose our sense of the propri-
eties. The church is entitled to es-
pecial consideration. In 1t we meet
Ior the holiest purposes and in 1t we
enter into our finest visions of God.
ottentimes. 1t should be treated
win respect. To be sure a church
building is only so much wood, and
Drlck, and stone, but the memories
and the influences which hallow II
| consecrate It, or ought to consecrate
1t, in a special manner. While not
forgetting that God is everywhere
and that His dwelling place is not
made with hands, we ought not to
forget that the places where we meet
In common worship and communion
are inexpressibly dear to God and
tnat they ought to be incomparably
sacred TO us. And we should teach
our youth the sacredness of the
church building. Too often they
leave their manners outside when
they go into church. And too Of
Ten their elders do the same thing.
The second thing that the lesson
points out to us Is the value of hum
lllty and dependence upon God. When
God charged Moses to go down to
bring the children of Israel out of
Egypt he was not over-confident.
Moses felt the weight of the resnon-
sibility. Like true and strong man
Moses saw Immediately that the
task was too great for his unaided
powers. He saw that his education.
mis- intellectual endowments. his
spirituality, were not s1fffcient for
the upbuilding of an enduring work.
VINO am /. says he, that | should
go. unto pharaoh and that 1 should
orlng forth the children of Israel
out OF Egypt?" His humility was
that OF strong man. We must
gain this Mosaic humbleness II wa
would do true work. For this is NOT
the humility of self-depreclation but
OF open-minded self-valuation.
The third lesson is a dual one.
Gitted OF God with divine task and
win the evidence of the validity of
MS call Moses still feels himself nm
equal to the work. His tongue is
SLOW OF speech. He pleads for a
spokesman. And God gives Aaron to
him to be instead of a mouth" TO
him. The lesson that we ought 10
learn Is that men of power should
pc ready and willing to receive assis-
lance from other men of power, es-
peclally when the help they may be
aDle 10 secure is superior to their
own abilities. Moses was a thinker.
seer an organizer of immense abil-
ity' a wise lawyer, but he was no
speaker. Moses recognized that he
needed aid along the very line in
which personally he was inefflcIent
This shows his greatness. An honest
declaration of the limits of personal
ABILITY Is, with the power to select
aDle helpers and use them at their
value, true test of greatness.
Inc lesson also reveals to us the
power OF God in the world. His
power Is shown through His deal
ings with humanity. Israel. repent
Ing OF her sin and lifting up her
prayer to God for deliverance from
the heavy hand of the Egyptians ia
not forgotten. God never forgets
people who turn to Him beiiev-
ing that He can and will aid
oteadfast prayer, in every national
crisls, reaches the ear of Jehovah.
T2onovah replies to every petition.
! 49, 1910 Oou perpareS master
aoses leu israel out of bondage. He
is leader of liberators. The class
OF which He is prototype exists in
every land. He was the man for the
nour. and God supplies every pray
ing people with fit leader.
To-day, In this land, God is rails
ing up men who shall lead humanity
nearer to Himself. They are heinz
ulVlnely nurtufed in every walk in
lie. To-day and In America we have
conditions that need rectifying lust
as the conditions In Egypt among the
jews needed to be rectifed. And we
need Moses. We need a man who
shall guide this people out of the
darkness of sin and ignorance into
the promised land where the e,ono-
mics OF Christ shall rule and where
the eternal and spiritual principles of
the Christ life shall control.
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