Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
Sunday Exto1s American w on1a111ood|
Evangelist Pays Beautiful Tribute Meeting
Ncopyright. 1909. by William A. Sun

day.
Exodus, 2:s: "Take this child and
nurse it for me, and will give thee
wages"
The story Of Moses is one of the
most beautiful and fascinating in all
the world. 1t takes hold on us and
never for an instant does it lose its
interest, for it is so graphically told
than once heard it is never forgotten.
have often imagined the anxiety
with which that child was born, for
No came into the world with the SEN
tencel of death hanging over him, for
Pharoah had decreed that the male
children should die, and the mother
defied even the command of the king
and determined that her child should
live, and right from the beginning the
battle Of right against might was
fought at the cradle.
Moses mother was slave. She had
to work in the brick yards or 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 battle
for that baby or for the cradle she will
never lose. Before going to work she
had to choose some 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 were seeking every
where to murder the Jewish male chill
dren.i For three months she kept him
hidden. possibly finding new hiding
place every few days. 1t is hard to
imagine anything more difficult than to
hide a healthy, growing baby, and they
had to hide Moses for three months.
Now he had grown larger and more
full of life, and a more secure hiding
place had to be found, and can i'm
agine this mother giving up her rest
anti sleep to prepare an ark for the
saving of her child. believe the
plans must have been formulated in
heaven. / have often thought God
must have been as much interested in
that work as was the mother of Moses,
for ynl can't make believe that an
event so important as that and so far
reaching in its results ever happened
by luck or chance. Possibly God whis-
pered the plan to the mother of Moses
as she went to him in her prayers and
in her grief, because she was afraid
the sword of Pharoah would murder
her child. md how carefully the ma
terial out Of which the ark was made
had to be selected! think every twig
was carefully scrutinized in order that
nothing poor might get into it's COM
position, and in the weaving of that
ark the mothers heart, her soul, her
prayers, her tears, are interviewer. And
with what thanksgiving she must have
poured out. her heart when at last the
work, was done and the ark was
ready to carry it's precious cargo, more
precious than if it was to hold the
crown Jewels of Egypt. And / can
Imagine the last night that baby was
in the home. Probably some 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 pail
bearers and the hearse came and can
Imagine there was no sleep for Moses
AothsszsSgt hsxs.s in the house might
Z have slept, but not moment could
sh.' spare the precious time allotted
her with her little one, and all thru
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.
What Angels Do.
Some people often say to me, 81
wonder what the angels do and 1 Won
der how they employ their time" L
think ] know what some of them did
that night. They guarded that house
so carefully that not a soldier of old
Pharoah ever got within the threshold.
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harmed that baby.
AT dawn the mother must have
kissed him goodbye, placed him in the
ark and hid it among the reeds and
rushes, and with an aching heart and
tear dinlmed eyes she turned back
again to the field and back to the brick
yards to labor, and she waits to see
what God will do. She has done her
prayerful best, and when you have
done that you can bank on it that God
Will not fail you. How easy it is for
God to give the needy help, no matter
how hopeless it might seem, if we only
believe that with God all things are
possible, no matter how improbable
Lord gives us in his unexpected an
swer to our prayers. She knew God
would help her some way, but don't
think she ever dreamed that God would
help her by sending old Pharoahs
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 prepare the
ark. What was impossible from her
standpoint was awfully easy for God
Pharaoh's daughter came down to the
water, and the ark was discovered, lust
as God wanted it to be, and one Of
her maids was sent to fetch the ark
You often wondered what the angels
were doing? q think the angels held
all the crocodiles on the other side of
Nthe river to keep them from getting
Noses and eating him up. God had
something for them to do. The ark
was brought, and with feminine Curl
osity che daughter Of Pharaoh had to
look into 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 probably most of us did
when we were boys, and probably as
you did when you were girls, too. The
4aby looks up and weeps, and those
tears blotted out all that was against it
and gave 1t a chance for it's life. I
don't know, but ] think an angel stood
there and pinched 1t to make it cry
for it cried at the right time. just as
God plans. God always does things at
the right time. Give God a chance, he
may be 4 little slow. but he will always
get around on time.
His Tears Arc Jewels,