Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1907-02-15
Ca(mage
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, DID.

practical training and deveIonmon+ ..
great leader so there are periods il
our own lives when we seem to h,
nopeiessly sidetracked by suffering
trlal or misfortune. all of which are
needed to bring out the better ouaIi.
Ties OF our nature The text is Ev-
Odus H. 10. But Moses fled from tbo
face Of Pharaoh and dwelt in tba lond
of INDIAN" -'''lu
hunger and hardship prove torture
toNll men who endure them. vet thew
entail the greatest suffering when +bav
assam men who have once dwelt in
the palaces of luxury. 1t is harder IN
De pauper after one has once been n
SILK roDed prince than it is to be a nan.
per when one has always been accus-
TONED TO wear rags. Moses would not
nave felt the hot, blistering sands Of
Cne desert as he did, nor would his
parched lips or his blistered tongue
nave been so distressing. If his desert
journey when he was fleeing owav
from Egypt to the land of INDIAN
near TO Old Mount Sinai, had been TAX
en- oy man who had never been any
tnlng else but Hebrew slave. Mo
ses, 1t is true, had been born of
slave, but he had been accustomed 70
luxury through the adoption by which
he became the son Of Pharaoh's daupb.
ter. The finest garments crowded his
wardrobe. The most COSTLY vionds
were in his larder The richest Of nal.
aces We're his domiciles. The most
learned sages conversant with all ,
Egyptian lore We're his teachers. The u
softest of cOuches We're his RESTING {
places. All that wealth and love couId L
give were lavished upon him as a child =
boy and a man. Now as a handsome =
prince and as one of the keenest intel -
lects OF the world as an epicurean. -
who looked upon the rarest Iuxuries of -,
life as his necessities, we suddenly -
ind him hunted fugitive. fleeing ~,
from his foster mothers home with a -
price upon his head. He is charged -
with the crime of murder. But. worse n,
than that, his crime is. aggravated bv ~
the fact that the murdered man was r.
an Egyptian who was cruelty abusing or
one Of the Hebrew slaves In other 40
words, Moses was hated as the cham 81,
Dlon of an alien race. that race a race 90,
)f slaves. As an Egyptian prince he n
lad dared stand up and espouse the c,.r
'ause and the rights of the Hebrew ba,
laves, who were the unpaid laborers of
# the kingdom of the pharaohs. bu,
Moses Blessings. ext
want to dwell this morning on the onl.
lessings which came to Moses life in Hell
is forty long years of exile in the mad
md of the Midianites. l want TO viii
1eak about the blessings which came GUS
Moses in midlife. The period he
tent in indian extended from the age HI
forty to fifty, and from fifty to sixty, as S
Id from sixty to seventy, and from h
venty to eighty. These twoscore wint
ars of Moses" life were in some re- brea
ects the most momentous of all ace
oses' career. Moses spent his first river
rty years as a beloved prince in mon
laraoh's palaces. The second forty cessf
ars he lived in the land of the ed al
dianites. The third forty years of made
life he spent in the wilderness with and
Hebrews. leading them from the palac
ne of Egyptian enslavement to the used
stall gates of the Jordan. 1t is about Becat
second epoch of Moses life that I were
1ld speak today. kindl
! the first place, God had purpose have
permitting Moses to be driven into But o
e. IL was to teach him that Gods He
lights are not as mans thoughts Nile.
GODS ways as mans ways The he wa
1t Jehovah seemed to say to the forty
ire emancipation of the Hebrew ing al
;: My son, l want to take you Egypt
Y from the palaces of Memphis of the
the temple of Karnak and all the his M
lsiye heather worship of the and sn
ptians. l want you to be alone in his
me out in the desert sands. I Moses
to talk with you and have you fugitiv
with me- l want you to learn place
[ the God of Abraham and Isaac tive h
Jacob. l want you to be truly bit ru
child and not be a worshiper Of hounds
, and bulls, and rams, and crocO- he lear
and cats, and lions. and frogs< Hebrew
ishes, and hawks, and falcons. 1t izing S
most an impossibility for any man master.
'e In the communicating spiritual stop to
sphere where his loved ones are bitter
liping false gods without having sympad
Wn spiritual ears dulled. Come. bed in
HID to the faroff INDIAN lands. think Il
III the stiffness of the day and little cl
stiffness Of the night l can talk become
thee and thou canst talk with suffering
Thus God led Moses far away lands OF
the Egyptian temples into the the sacr
de Of exile in order that Moses contact
learn Of him and study what sympath
anted him to do throb il
this not a very wise plan? hearts G
in all the world was the abom- sisters d
] Of heather worship made more
I'VE IMAM IN old Egypt! When 1t is Oh
no anna the ruins Of Memphis, been the
ii mere that the sacred deity how to
orsLnped IN the form Of a bull. peace l
puIIS were allowed to live for stood by