The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-06
SATURDAY NIGHT
S!EnNIloNS
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hETSAMgJEL
- M.pUgVESnD!
THE BUSH AFLAME Win GOD.

woodsmap monk Columbus weaves
rugs. First India missionary is Carey.
the cobbler. God takes negro boy
and puts him at Tuskegee. An unsuc-
cessful tanner becomes a great gen
eral. He takes II boy born in poverty,
raised in obscurity, uncouth, unganly
and makes Lincoln of him. He
picks Moses, slave child out of the
Nile, puts him in kings palace to
learn statecraft then sends him back
of the desert to learn worldcraft.
There he cares for cattle, shears sheep,
weaves wool, learns the stars, beasts, Il
BIRDS trees ard bushes in the great |
university of outdoors He sweats at
common toll. How the Bible glorifies
labor! Amos, the farmer; David, the |
shepherd; Elisha, the plowman; Gid |
con. the thrasher; Saul. the drover;
Peter, the fisherman; Paul. the tent
maker; Christ. the carpenter. The
kingdom of heaven is easier to a busy
man than to an idle one.
The Burning Bush.
One evening Moses is coming home
along the edge of the desert with
his sheep. He's man now. matured
by sad experience. Eyes full OF
mighty, deep, heart hunger. Fore
head lined with questions yet I'M
, answered. The warnings of forty,
: years pent up in his soul. No vision
, III, Ia eli
line A third of life gone. old age
creeping on apace. He has staked his
all on Jehovahs being God, and
l there's been no answer. Tonight he's
coming along the side Of Mount Horeb
r He's trodden it for years. It's toward
evening. The suns going down rap
l. idly in the west. Shadows are length
e ening. Dusk and gloom of evening
n on forest and mountain, and in the
n fields of Jethro, way off yonder in
!, the valley, the sheep are bleating.
The smell of the flock is heavy in the
damp evening air, The cry of Jackal
III is heard way up on the hill An owl
e. boots mournfully in the tall cedarS
d. near the summit Suddenly in the
quiet of this familiar trail he stops
Look at that acacia bush up there
Is it the CLINT of the evening sun
~, He's seen that very bush scores o
times, but never like that. Why, It'll
y on fire! Yes, 1t burns. But look
e. Faith of the fathers, it is not con
O. sumed 1t is critical moment TO
IL the lonely shepherd. Moses turn
or aside to look. And as he turns tn
I'd world turns with him!
I'd The Voice.
IS Then the Voice speaks to him. "Pu
r. off thy shoes" Reverence, to star
it with-a lost art today. People don
a even bow their heads in Gods house
~ OF course God doesn't speak to then
es and they sec no fame. The mountai
in might blaze like Vesuvius, but the
rt wouldn't be impressed. They migf
~ look, but they wouldn't see. There
n difference between looking and SCI
ing. Some people look at the sun Sc
I'D others see the sunset
a., Farth's crammed with heaven,
=" And every bush alame with God
EN- But only those who see take off their shoe
ed Moses saw the bush. and It burne
he In his brain from that day till the OF
re 'by Nebo's lonely mountain" when
40, heard the same voice calling, Nose
Mosesr Has God sent you back
ley Mono,, hra+harq Kont Won thoro wifi
ne out a vision of better things? Same o
nd task. same old path. lots of thol
Lus bushes, but none on fire? NOV
FOR preacher. | know what you are goil
to say, but I've missed it. I've bee
to the church I've gone through Il
Bible even But I've gone by Il
place IFS too late in the day for me
As' l guess that's what Moses though
'cN Many long day and year he h;
trudged along this very road. Wh'
suddenly one year, one day. one hou
IT'S one particular moment. he lifted |
We his eyes, and 10, there was Godl
Today's Call.
+b. Has the fame died out and the vol
in ceased? Or is God still near? Pc
sibly the vision is daily, commonplaC
GA Maybe we are up looking at the bus
hly IYicI,,no ~ i+s roots With our hon,
In heels, measuring at its height, pine
all ing the berries, nipping off lie;
feeling the point of a thorn with o
- thumb. Yes, we know this buSh-i
an acacia, sure; botanically, it's
III "1eguminosa." MeanW lille the ether
IN a-quiver and the atmosphere IS vibra
~ with the unconsumed power. Yes,
church is built of wood and stone IT
Bible is the same binding and pri
as any other book. And Christ cal
IN a baby, like your own, my good mo-
err Is that our view of the bush? G
be patient There's trick of the e
in looking, men. That's an abomi'
ton to the Lord. Has your visi
failed? Is the God of the bush
o more? Is he the God of the anciel
w., only? No! AS Jehovah-Jireh live
'ne no! He's not the God of the dead on
per- though their name be Abram, Isa
lies Jacob and Moses. Is he the God
SIN, the fathers? Then by the living bu
or he is the God of the sons. Now