The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

| nifty. and power to write itself upon
the memory. there is no language ike
| Scripture Here is the lesson story
as the inspired pen wrote it;
And Pharaoh charged all his peo-
pie. saying, Every son that is born We
| shall cast into the river, and every
! daughter we shall save alive
And there went man OF the
house of Levi. and took to wife a
daughter of Levi. And the woman
conceived, and bare a son: and when
she saw him that he was goodly
| child, she hid him three months And
when She could not longer hide him,
she took for him an ark of bulrushes.
daubed it with slime and with pitch;
and she put the child therein, and laid
it in the flags by the rivers brink And
his sister stood afar off to know what
would be done to him. And the daugh-
ter of Pharaoh came down to battle at
the river, and her maidens walked
along bv the riverside; and she saw
the ark among the flags, and sent her
handmade to fetch it. And she opened
it. and saw the child: and, behold, the
babe wept And she had compassion
on him, and said, This is one of the
Hebrews children. Then said his sis
ter to Pharaoh's daughter. Shall 1 go
and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew
women. that she may nurse the child
for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter
said unto her. Take this child away,
and nurse it for me. and L will give
the child. and nursed it,
Enter the Princess.
1t was the usage of Egyptian wom
en-, even as it is today of the women
along the Gauges and the Tigris, to-
bathe at stated places. The mother of
Moses chose, with the cunning of love,
the spot known to everybody as the
scene of the ceremonial ablutions of
Pharaoh's daughter. The plot was
perfectly transparent, and the princess
hut
the less. She doubtless well under
stood when she rescued the Hebrew
babe why it had been put there, and
the relationship of the little girl.
Miriam. to it, and the motherhood of
the nurse secured for it.
Specifically, women do not get
along as well together as do men, but
in the depths of life women find
was a good woman appealed to in vain
by the cry of baby. This is the pre-
historic language which stirs the ele-
mental abySSeS of Womans nature.
Moses came to her ears, Pharaoh's
daughter was not princess, but Just
a woman with the ageless hunger for
q child in her heart.
First in a royal line of history max l
ers, was this daughter of wealth and
power who exercised the privilege of
using her capacity for service we
can name a host of splendidly endow- !
young women IN our own ledIlQ anu
time who follow in the train of Pha- |
raCh's daughter. The opportunity to |
give a child his chance, which lies be- !
fore every woman Of wealth, staggers
the imagination.
What leaders of men, what must |
clans, and artists, and writer's have |
been lost to the world because there
was no Pharaoh's daughter near to do
a service which is nobler than leading
an army, A few days ago 1 saw at
a college graduation a young woman
who was glowing with
pride because a younger relative whom
she had educated was in the gradual |
ing class That experience of service
had lifted ner life up to the vicarious
level, making beautiful and glorious
all the drudgery of office work. She
ter.
What a Palace Cannot Do.
The factors that entered into this
great story should be kept in their
relative position. The princess saved
the life of Moses and insured his being |
educated in all the learning of the
But it was not in this
school that he gained the impulse and
the equipment which made him the |
deliverer of his nation. 1t was the re- |
ligion learned at his mothers knee, |
the stories of the patriarchs, the tales
of bondage, and the promises to Abra-
ham, which filled the youthful i'm
agination with purposes to be fulfilled
Every student of the story should /
stand steadfast, with clear judgment,
here 1t is faith which forms char
acter. Higher than the so-called
higher education" is the lesson of
faith in God and of obligation to |
serve the world in highest ways. The |
colleges will furnish the world lead
ers in many walks of life, but the |
great emancipators of their kind from
the ever-developing new thraldoms of
life will have to come out of the |
ranks of the common people. The /
ia mily is the nursery of the great. |
The ideals which make history are |
learned nowhere so clearly as in the |
Bible. The restoration |
of domestic religion in America is a |
crying political need of the hour. !
None of the laws of ameioration, so
written of late on the |
statute books. is as important to our !
land as Christian nurture in the !
home.