The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-04
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ing you now. but in the end he will
| satisfy.-Maltbie D. Babcock.
A sacred burden is this life we bear;
Look on it, lift it, bear 1T solemnly;
Stand up and walk beneath it stead
tasty;
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin;
But onward, upward, till the goal We
win.
-Kemble.
Moses had a profound sense of
God; and that gave him his greatness
The desert, which began with self
communion, became a. place of COM
munfon with God for Moses. 1t is
when We have reached that stage,
when in our desert places of trial and
disappointment We learn that God is
present and waits for our approach
that he may talk with US, that we are
made fit to be his instruments for
work.
Few Christians have come into a
proper conception of their power.
They are afraid to attempt great
things for God. Their lives are spent
in petty services, and are environed
by trifing cares. Away with the fear
fulness! He to whom "all power is
given" and who is to be with his dis
! ciples ''all the days. bids them launch
out into the deep. The day is upon us
when young men and young women
should learn the Moses lesson, and
have faith in God, great faith in a
great God, and get out of the empty
shadows in which they live.
Times apart from people are neces-
sary to prove our people. He who
sit patient at the feet of God in medi-
tation.
Poor Moses! He deserves the SYM
pathy which every great leader al
ways deserves and rarely receives,
and especial commiseration should be
| extended to him because he had to
work with an uncommonIy forgetful,
ungrateful, unappreciative and rebel
lious aggregation Of followers. Every
body finds it hard to work with peo-
pie, and many are prone to say that
they have the most uncongenial and
difficult company of associates. But
| Moses really did have a rare lot
of spineless grumblers on his hands.
What a sermon he could preach on
the grace of good nature!
"You may view the life of Moses
as a continual series of disappoint-
ments or you may think of it as God s
education of one of his greatest sons
by service. He was educated in a
and glory of Egypt to serve his own
people"
"The training of Moses began in his
fathers house, where he was nour-
ished at command of Pharaoh s
daughter. 1t was continued in the
schools and armies of Egypt. But the
crown was put upon it i'll the desert,
| where, under the burning, open sky,
the things of life took on their just
proportion. So in some time of wait
ing and apparent disappointment God
may, be training US
There is no place where We may
not find God. Neither in this noun
tain, nor in Jerusalem, shall he be
found more than in our homes and in
our places of labor and rest. While he
come the richest schools of thought
and power. When our responsibility
comes, he will enable us to bear it.
In him even our failures may be
transformed into steps of progress for
his work. What matter whether we
go in, if the people of God may en-
ter. Our reward we may safely leave
to him, and he will vindicate our
fame"
There is a faith of silence as well
as of speech, and a courage of mac
ton as well as a courage of action
For US, as We look back through
| the centuries, the work which Moses
did, or is credited to his name, gains
| its chief Importance as preparation
for the coming of the work of Christ.
We are not Jews, and the strict limits
of the Jewish law are not for us. But
| it was needful in order that We might
be free for service and armed with
hope. And all along the story of the
| life of Moses the lesson is written
plainly for our comfort and our
strength, that he who would go far
must walk with God, and that it is
Gods pleasure to dwell in those who
| trust in him and serve his WILL