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ence over any pity that moved him to
| intercede for the nation that he loved
more than his own life.
In brief. the arguments for God 10
change His decision are "a that God
has proved by His series of acts In
| the past that Israel was His people ana
not Moses people; ca the glory OF Goa
was involved in the deliverance of Israel;
(3l Gods gracious promises had com
mitted Him to a different policy. for HIS
word had been pledged for their saliva
ton.
Having won Gods favor by his pleading,
Moses left the glory of the mount for the
investigation of the iniquity of the people
carving the written record of Gods law.
AS they drew near the camp of insurrec-
ton Joshua revealed his war experience
by thinking the sound that they heard
while descending the mountain denies IN
dictated that a battle was in progress at
first. but Moses knew it was the song OF
religious revelry and not worship.
When he and Joshua, who had waited
for him to end his conference. came IN
sight of the camp SO that he saw. as ne
turned from behind the rock that had
prevented them seeing the camp, the cali
that Aaron had made by carving wooded
patterns to make the moldS in whlch ne
had poured the gold earrings and other
articles of jewelry contributed to make a
calf symbolical of sacrifice and which had
probably been borrowed from Moloch
rather than the god Apis OF Egypt.
Moses waxed warm in righteous lndlg-
nation at the sight of drunken and hcen-
tious service that had resulted from the
liberalism of Aaron, who lacked back
bone and allowed the people to have their
own way.
Stung to the very quick by the sight
of their sin, Moses hurled the two tab
lets upon the ground whose broken pieces
were symbols of the inability of man to
keep the commandments of God and OF
how by their rebellion Israel had de-
stroyed the covenant.
Immediately his intense indignation
hurled the Idol contemporary into the fire
that had been built to consume their
offerings (Which did not include any sin
offering,, where the flames quickly re-
duced the craven and NOTED image into
a shapeless mass of gold that was ground
I'D into powder and placed In the drinking
water which the people were forced to
take Moses sought by this gold cure to
make the people SO sick of idolatry that
they would never go back into ldolatrS.
He followed it up by seeing that 1900 OF
the ringleaders. who declined to take a
stand for the Lord. should be destroyed
because they had by their influence al
most destroyed the nation. They were
put to death after investigation had
showed Moses that their presence. like
that of a traitor, threatened the nation.
The preservation of the nation required
this drastic measure.
The peril of the New Haven railroad
wrecks has stirred our nation to the
necessity of placing the responsibility of
such disaster SO as to prevent. If pos
sible. their occurrences. AS with heavy
hearts we have stopped to drop. with
those that mourn. the tear of grief and
commence to enact measures to prevent
such calamities recurring, is there not a
danger that we fail to see the menacing
presence in our midst of still greater
peril that Is undermining the characters
of our youth, filling our penal institutions
and crowding our hospitals so that the
cost of our charities is growing at
tremendous rate?
How long would the white slave trafnc
in human souls last if we by drastic en-
deavor cleared our land of the perils that
the saloon presents?
If we removed the money making pos
sibilities from this sinful spirituous SUD
stitute for spiritual strength and support
in the hour of trial, trouble and tempta-
ton, would we not be making An excel
lent effort to eradicate the idolatrous
practice that today threatens TO destroy
our land, il we do not remove IT from our
midst by applying an effective gold cure
to the saloon problem that will make US
place the making of men above the max
ing of money? The fact is. there must
come in our life a separation from all
sin IL We are to enjoy salvation