The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25

more assurance of longer or healthier life than that system which Moses promul- gated in his hygienic laws for the He- brew people nearly 1000 years ago. Study his land laws. under which the people every seven years received back the titles to their old homsteads. Do you not be- lieVe that Moses way was better than our way, where few men can gobble up all our coal lands and copper lands and timber lands and farm lands and then say to the rest of the people, Now starve. for We are to be the land kings forever" Take the protection which he gave to the people in the right of trial by establishing the ten cities of refuge. Take all those marvellous precautions for protecting human life which he made, in- cluding even the building of battements or balustrades about the roof of a house so that a guest might not fall off and kill himself And then, most wonderful of all in these times of theft and de- bauchery and licentiousness, study those marvellous Ten Commandments which he gave to the people from Mount Slani. My friend, If the Lord God Almighty did not write those Ten Commandments for Moses then Moses himself was the great est of the worlds legislators.
 Moses as Miracle Worker.
 But Moses was more than creator of Id hS I1t WdS d uITetI il1lTacIe WO1keT as we'll He was such worker of miracles that if we do not accept those miracles AS emanating from him. then we should be compelled to regard him as fabulous character But he was q miracle worker as Christ was d miracle worker Oh l hear some men say, "I believe in Jesus, but not in his miracles" Why. my friend, you cannot believe in Jesus un- less you believe in his miracles for Christ ponttu1Ia1ly to mir oIa 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 little while down in Egypt Here are the Egyptians, the greatest. the most warlke people upon the face of the earth at that period What the Grecian conquerors were in the Alexandria era, and the Roman con- querors in the times of Julius and Augus- tus Caesar, Egypt was in the time of Moses. Pharaoh had the mightest war riors, 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 fields of the world. Now in contract to these great warriors and intellectual giants, there was collection of Hebrews These Hebrews were slaves, deprived of all books. They could not learn the sci ence of arms. They were brutally abused They were killed off every year by the hardest mind of manual labor. As a peo- pie they were more cowed and downtrod- den than the black slave ever was. Now, who liberated these men? Who was the Spartacus who rallied the Hebrew people about him? There was no Spartacus: be- cause 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 defyine 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 mightest nation on earth bow its knee and beg for mercy. "Oh." you say, '.f deny that 1t was done" Then, my friend, a student of his- tory. you have to deny the facts which we find recorded upon the tombs and monuments of the dead Pharaoh How you going to get around this testimony of the miracle worker Moses in reference to God?
 But l am not done with this miracle wnrkar Moses I usad to think that