Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-11-13
The international Sunday School Les
son for November Is 10 "rhe Death
Of Noses" .Deut. Stills; 32;4S-52;
34:1.12.
(By William T. Ellis.)
(REvIEW OF SUND

A vision of the countless graves
have seen delays my pen as | begin
to write this lesson-miles of circu-
lar graves hillocks in China and Ko-
rea, a most uneconomic waste Of good
land: the rified graves of Phoenecia
and Rome and Greece; the catacombs
OF the early Christians; the overgrown
graveyards in Great Britain and Amerl-
ca; the tombs Of the kings Of Egypt in
the heart of Of the mountain at Thebes
and the great blackness of the interior
of the pyramids; the Moslem graves
in India and Turkey. from the golden.
domed shrines Of Ali and Hussain, to
the scrawny acre of the dead out In
the Bedouin quarter of Damascus; the
thrilling epitaphs of Westminster Alb
hey: the stately tomb OF Napoleon and
the still more impressive sepulchre OF
Washington--thus crowd the various
memories Of earths graves upon us.
But the illimitable majority OF graves
are forgotten and unmarked; most OF
humanity has died, and has returned
to dust.
Two grave sites, the greatest of all,
I have seen, but no man knoweth the
graves. One was a tomb in a garden
somewhere outside the wall Of Jeru-
salem. where for three days lay the
worlds Redeemer. The other Is Mt.
Nebo, the stony height on which, IN
some one of It's many limestone cav
ems known only to angels, the nody
of Moses was tenderly laid away Per-
haps it awaits the Resurrection for Its
revelation; perhaps in an earlier full
ness of time, the mummy will be
brought forth to q sceptical civilization
which now reads the ancient languages
of Egypt and the East. The conviction
Is a deep one with me that God still
has great and marvellous corrobora-
tons in store for the vindication OF
his truth. We have the mummies OF
the pharoahs of the oppression and OF
the exodus; perhaps this greater than
either may yet confound our small
minded unbelief. In any case, we have
what Is more important, the example
and message Of Moses.
A Traveller on Moses Mount.
Few indeed are the travellers who
get into this troubled part OF the Turk
ish empire. The son of the Bedou1n
sheik who owns these mountains, and
In whose encampment down in the ad-
iacent ravine was sojourning, &C
companied me to the top of Mt. Nebo
and ! asked him If foreigners ever
visited the spot.
Yes: few had been there
Why had they come?
i They had heard Of the glory of the
sheik Suleiman. who owned this noun
tain.
All, yes But had he himself ever
heard of a man named Mousa (the
Arabic form Of Moses) in connection
with the mountain?
To be sure; now that reminded
him of it; some Germans had once
been there and told him that Mousa
wrote a book, which was hidden in
this mountain, and they had hunted
in the caves for 1t!
Mt. Nebo Is the edge, as 1t were
of the great three thousand foot plat
eau of Moab, rich and fertile but al.
most barren Of lie now. Once great
cities throve here. Two hours back
from Nebo is Medeba-and can the
traveller ever forget how those cold
winds of the upland nearly blew him
from his horse? In Modoba stayed
for a time with Greek priest in whose
church are still to be seen fragments
- tho xuondorfyl Mosaic man 0f tho