The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-01
THE SHEPHERD SONG
PICTURESQUE LECTURE AT CLAY
 TON ST. METHODIST CHURCH.
Dressed in the Costume of the Shep. herd, Rev. Fnddoul MOghabghab Makes An Impressive
 Auearance.

Picturesquely garbed in shepherds garments, with the camer-hair "kaf- fla" and the "aba." Rev. Fadoul Mog- habghab delivered an imressive lecture on "The Shepherd Song on the Hills of Lebannon," at the Clayton Street Meth odist Church, yesterday morning.
 With him was his niece, Mrs. Zarr, who was dressed as an Oriental bride, her face yelled as Is required at the we'd ding. The quaint costumes served to interpret better the life of the hills In Palestine.
 Reverend Moghabghab was introduc- ed by Dr. McNeal, pastor of the church.
 The syrian pastor first displayed his dress, with which he illustrated pas sages in the Bible. On his head dress the "kaffia" was a metal horn, which, he explained. was the horn spoken of when David said: Tn thy favor may our horn be exalted. The verse meant that this head dress" he said. would be increased in size and when another passage speaks of ones enemies horns shall be cut off, 1t sig nified that 1t would be cut down..
 He devoted part of his talk to his boyhood life, thus making more VNiu the boyhood of Christ.
 land as Jesus. My mother wrapped me in swaddling clothes as he was wrapped. have lived in the same places and travelled the same road that Christ walked on. In my early lire ] was a shepherd.
 "In order to have a clear understand ing of the Twenty-third Psalm, often termed The Shepherd Psalm. We must first study the life of Oriental shep- herds as we see them living It at this day That life has been considered an honest and honorable one by all the neople of God. and is held In high es- teem by the Arabs of the desert to this day. As one travels among them he often sees a shiek and the common neople leading their fiocks side by side to the green pastures. Most shepherds own their fiocks. which generally con sist of a hundred sheep.
 "Wheu God wanted to assure Abra- ham of His willingness to enter with him into binding covenant He ordered him to do this same thing just as 1t Is done among the shepherds of this pres ent time. Gods presence between the pieces of the sacrifices which Abraham killed and set one against the other assured Abraham that lasting cove nant with God had been ratified ano sealed. Behold, smoking furnace ano a burning lamp that passed between those pieces
 
 the care of his sheep marks him as tnt right man to lead his people. All th' men of his tribe unite to appoint hin their emir, or shiek. They call him uI higher to lead a more important flock So Moses, after he had been leading sheen for almost forty years. was call ed to lead a better flock, Gods people the Israelites. So 1t was that David. shepherd, was called out from among the f1ocks to be the King of Israel.
 "Each shepherd builds a 'marah' o sheep-fold to protect the sheep oN night from attack. It is round en closure built with wall six feet high lust above the entrance Is erected | tent made of branches, or tower, an' at night the shepherd stands on It hi eyes straining in every direction Thieves and robbers dare not enter th' sheen fold by the door lest $he shep 1 herd discover them. but will climb Ill some other way. During the night tn shepherd cries out and his voice Is eve heard in the dark silent hours. mi is the night watch His sling is eve ready to hurl stones to frighten ava the wolves and hyenas and other enc | mics. ~ the glad tidings of Our Saviors birtl were first told, were keeping in sucl a tower such a night watch over thei l flocks.