The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-08-28
destruction of pharaoh.s host repeated be-

destruction of Pharaoh's host repeated be.
fore the eyes of the modern world. The
Bakarjang cyclone of 1876 drove huge waves
over the large islands, and in a few hours
engulfed 10000 acres of land, and de-
stroyed 2,0G0, 600 souls. At times large ships
have been swept inland upon the crest OF
great waves and deposited on the shore,
sometimes at a distance of several miles
from the sea-"
A friend of mine who has lately re-
turned from an automobile journey around
the world. found his passage along an old
japanese highway blocked, after a great
typhoon, the presence OF huge schoone-s
on the roadway. The miracle OF the Exc
dus story is little more of a miracle than
what is happening every day in the lives
OF beleYers-the opportune overrullng Of
natural events for providential purposes.
The Great Guidance.
A mar told me last night that he did not
believe in ~providences. Well. 1 do. What
shall we say to the news that has come
from Egypt concerning a n accident to DIR.
Samuel NJ. 2wemer, the seemingly indis-
pensable leader of Christianity's struggle
with Islam? A minor accident compelled
DR.. Zwemer to go to the operating table.
Under the knife there was found within
his body a condition which would have
meant death within a week had 1t not
been revealed to the eyes OF the surgeons.
Yet DIR. Zwemer was not in the slightest
degree aware of this condition. Who will
say that the accident was not proyiden-
tial?
The story of the Exodus is bound up
with the figure of the pillar of cloud and
the pillar of fire that guided by day and
by night. and that interposed as a shield
OF confusion between the Israelites and
the Egyptians. Gods guidance is none
the less real today to those who will fol-
low 1t than it was to these old Israelites.
The great truth of Christianity is that the
Lord cares for His children; that He Is
concerned in their lives, and that He de-
signs for them the best things. There Is
no more practical creed for life's affairs
than that our times are in His hand"
The message for every day living from the
pillar of cloud and fire is to find out Gods
way and then to do it. AS Goethe said,
The great need, after all, is only for
ward,
The End of the Enemy.
After his experience with the 10 plaques.
Pharaoh should have been content to let
these Israelttes alone. 1t is serious bust
ness to fight the man or the people for
whom God especially cares. l talked with
a veteran minister recently about the ex-
of certain congregations which
had dealt unfairly by their pastors, and
In every case those congregations had
been visited with manifest punishment.
Pharaoh could not resist the opportunity
to recover his host of slaves when his
spies reported that they were caught in
this pocket between the Red sea and his
hosts,
The factor In the problem which Pha-
raoh ignored was God. There are many
which are humanity beyond solu- |
but when God is taken into account
hey are easily settled. The destruction
If the GOO chariots of the Egyptians In
he flood, as the waters abated after the
had gone over dry shod. was
IN experience which stiffened the faith Of
he chosen people in all their subsequent
experience. They looked back. to this de-
iverance from many hours Of depression
md danger. The event colored much of
heir subsequent literature.
The vindication of Jehovah and of His
Moses was m and COM
,iete. The critics were COMPOUNDED and
he goddess were put to rout. The old
tory is familiar OF the skeptic who put
IN his wall the motto, God is nowhere"
Ills little child saw 1t and spelled out the
etters laboriousIy, "Cod is now here"
is the lesson of the lesson, the De-
iverer of Israel still keeps watch over His
people. There is no oppressor of eight
BUSINESS today who is not doomed by the
trong arm of God. With Whittier we cry,
Loud and long
Lift the old exulting song,
Sing with Miriam by the sea
de hath cast the mighty down,
Horse and riders sink and drown,
he hath triumphed gloriously.