Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05
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TAKE STAND FOR CHRISTIANITY


labor in the fields. but God was on
her side and she won. as the mother
always wins with God on her side.
In her hattie for that baby or tor
the cradle she will never lose, Be.
fore going to work she mad
to choose some secret hiding
place for her child, and she put his
little sister, Miriam, on guard while
she kept herself from being seen by
the soldiers of Pharaoh, who We're
seeking everywhere 10 murder the
Jewish male children
And l can imagine the last night
that that baby vas in the home,
Probably soma OF you can remember
when the last night came when baby
was alive, you can remember the
last night the coffin stayed and the
next day the pallbesrers and the
hearse came. and l can imagine there
was no sleep, for Moses mother.
Others in the house might have slept,
but not for a moment could she
spare of the precious time allotted
her with her little one, and all
through the night she must have
prayed that God shield and protect
her baby and bless the work she had
done and the step she was about to
take.
Discovers Babe.
At dawn the mother must have kiss
ed him goodbye, placed him in the
ark, and hid it among the reeds and
rushes, and with an aching heart and
tear.dimned eyes she turned back
again to the field and back to the
brick yards to labor, and she waits to
zee what God will do. She has done
her prayerful best, and whenever you
have done that you can bank on It
that God will not fail you. God would
help her in some way, but don't think
she ever dreamed that God would
help her by sending old Pharaoh's
daughter around to care for her, but
it was no harder for God to send the
princess, the daughter OF Pharaoh,
than it was to get the mother to pre-
pare the ark What was Impossible
from her standpoint was awfully easy
for God, and Pharaoh's daughter came
down to the water and the ark was
discovered. Just as God wanted it to De
and one of her maids was sent to fetch
the ark. You often wondered what
the angels were doing? | think the
angels held all the crocodiles on the
other side of the river to keep them
from getting Moses and eating him up
God had something for them TO 40.
The ark was brought, and with fem
mime curiosity the daughter OF Phar.
aoh had to look in it to see what was
there, and when they removed the
cover there was lying strong,
healthy, baby boy, kicking up his
heels and sucking his thumbs, as prob
ably most of us did when we were
boys, and probably as yo'l did when
you were girls, too. The baby looks
I'D and weeps, and those tears blotted
out all that was against that little
baby and gave 1t chance for its life.
I don't know. but I think an angel
stood there and pinched it to make it
cry, for it cried at the right time. Give
Cod chance: He may be little SLOW,
time
The tears of that baby were the
Jewels with which Israel was ransom
ed from Egyptian bondage. The prin-
cess had a woman's heart, and when
a womans heart and baby's tears
meet, that always means compassion
that gives the help that is needed.
Faithful Miriam (the Lord be prais.
ed for MiriamD saw the heart OF the
princess in her face. Miriam had
studied faces so much that she could
read the princess heart as plainly rs
If written in an open book, and she
said to Pharaoh's daughter: Shall
go and get one Of the Hebrew women
to nurse the babe for you?' and the
princess said: Co" | have often
Imagined how fast Miriam must have
run. can see her little feet and legs
fly as she runs down the hot. dusty
road, and her mother must have seen
her coming ZOE yards or a quarter of a
mile away, and she ran to meet her,