The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-20
CHOICE WHICH
MOSES MADE
Eloquent Discourse by Bishop
Moore at Central Union
Service.

The Methodists united with the con-
gregation Of Central Union church in
a union service last evening at the
place of worship of the latter oongre-
CATION. Bishop David H Moore OF the
Methodist church preaching the SER
mon.
In presenting the bishop to the con-
gregatfon, Rev. DR.. Scudder said that
it was evident to all that the unity
CT the church which Christ intended
was making great advances. The diff
ferent bodies of Christians were learn
ing Of each other. Order in church
services for which the Episcopal
church had so long stood was more
and more recognized as valuable
thing. The compact organization of
the Presbyterian church was seen TO
have its advantages. The fervor of
the Methodist church was having its
influence on all bodies of Christians,
and 1t was beginning to be recognized
more and more, as congregationalisn
has witnessed, that the seat of author
ity Is not in heaven but in the individ-
ual. In Honolulu there were peculiar
evidences Of this unifying spirit and
those who had lived here long could
people Central Union pulpit with a
great throng of godly men Of all de-
nominations who had contributed TO
this desirable spirit
The theme of Bishop Moore's sermon
was Moses Choice" His text was
Hebrews 11;24-"By faith Moses, when
he was come 10 years, refused to be
called the son Of Pharaof's daughter,
choosing rather to suffer affiiction with
the people of God than to enjoy the
fruits Of sin for a season
Moses choice was exactly the op-
posite from what would have been the
claaioe OF nine out OF ten. He chose
between the throne Of Egypt and the
poverty of a people who had forgotten
their past and in their long slavery
had lost hope of a future. IF Moses
had been a young man we might have
his choice as being a sudden
impulse like that Of Byron when he
cast his lot with the struggling Greeks
But he was not young man. He
was forty years Of age and had passed
the frenzied and impetuous period of
youth.
''If ne had been an uneducated man
MS choice might have been explained /
IN understandable hypotheses of |
human conduct. BY education is meant /
7ot alone that of the schools but that /
10 necessary antagonisn1-each supple /
nents the other. But Moses was not /
Ineducated either in the education of |
he schools or Of affairs. In the eigh /
eenth dynasty, rightly called the Au
justine age Of Egypt, he was the mas /
er OF the learning Of ser schools and /
rained in the affairs of great en-
ice. He was the Krupp. the Maxim
+ his nation. He was a ship-builder, !
mathematician
Had he been a disappointed man
e might have understood his choice. /
FOR the effect Of disappointment on /
.enerous spirits is sometimes to plunge
hem into the most forlorn OF adven-
ures and hopes. But ne was a man
no had known nothing but success
filitary heroes are after all those
Eom the people remember and ad-
aire. and Moses was a sort Of fight
ng Joe Hooker. the idol Of the military
pirit of his country, become such by
is conquest Of Ethiopia TO whose
apital he gave the name Of his foster
ether.
Moses. the son Of Pharaoh's daugh-
er. heir to the throne Of the greatest
rnpire of its age, the idol OF his peo-
Ie, a man of affairs capable of ap-
reciating the possibilities that were
-ithin the power Of a man of ability
Ltuated as he was-a suggestion that
rcn man would resign would be re-
arded as impossible because OF its
-upendous folly.
But that is just what Moses did.
nd not 10 accept something better,
ecause from the worldly standpoint
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