The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-12
IN The RELIGIOUS WORLD
What the Church Folk Are Thinking
About and Doing.


of their armies in case OF war, 50
Moses had decided apo the best way
Of delivering his hundred thousand
compatriots. 1t was necessary to get
them off where they might be disci-
plined, for at the they We're
but a fleeing horde.
Another quotation from Dr.. HoSllinS
is in RIDER:
Taking my stand on the historicity
of the Exodus. | am just as clear that
there was only one route possible for
such a mass of people, that it was
settled absolutely by the water. and
that, contrary to the common concep-
ton. it was along a Well-knoWn Route
of Antiquity, an old 0 from Egypt
to Edon. Arabia and Mesopotamia.
The route fits the documents as the
key fits its lock-"
The Wind of Delivery
The ancient assurance that HE
holdeth the winds in his fist" is called
to mind as we read that when the
Children Of Israel found themselves
in a cul de sac, with Pharaoh at their
heels and the waters OF the upper end
Of the Gulf of SueZ in front of them.
a great vino drove back the Hood to
make the pathway of safety for the
chosen people. 1t is sound philosophy
that a guidance which has continued
for a lone period will not fail at the
end. Because God has opened paths
before our feet in the past. He will
not fail US in the present emergency.
When His guidance is followed. it is
His problem, not ours, to effect deliv-
erance. The miracle of the dividing
Of the Red Sea has bothered many
persons, most of whom know nothing
of the geography Of the situation. The
head waters of the Red Sea. up in
the narrow arm Of the Gulf Of Suez.
uoro Cho1ln" Tho Yoironln ura NO
less a miracle a effected by
wholly natural agencies. We must re-
member that ii was a great wind
which destroyed the Spanish Armada
and saved England. Queen Elizabeth
struck a medal bearing the inscrip-
ton. He blew with His wind n
they were scattered" The men who
have walked dry-shod over the brink
of Niagara, an incident which has re-
peatedly happened, owing to natural
causes, were having an experience
analogous to hat of the Children OF
Israel.
Bishop Thoburn. of India. tells in
his little book, The Christian Con
quest of India a story thai illustrates
the present lesson:
Some twenty years ago a strong
and persistent wind drove the water
in n of the mouths of the Drama
putra kwa for many hours unit
, 1t stood above its normal level. Wher
! a sudden change OF the wind released
: the mighty mass and the swollen fooC
: swept out to sea, it buried a large
. island with its hundred thousand be
! ! meath its waves. 1t was substantially
!, the destruction of Pharaoh's host re
: peated before the eyes of the moder
world. The Bakarjang cyclone Of 1877,
= drove huge waves over the large is
= lands, and in a few hours engulfet
Z I IN ~ --
1000 600 souls. At times large shi
have been swept inland upon the cres
of great waves n deposited on tn
: shore, sometimes at a distance Of sew
eral miles from the sea"
: A friend Of mine who has lately re
A turned from an automobile journe
N around the world, found his passag
along an old Japanese highway block
II ed, after a great %typhoOn. by the pres
% ence OF huge SChOOnerS on the rOad
a The miracle Of the Exodus stor
is little more OF a miracle thar Via
@ is happening every day in the lives G
beHevers-the OppOrtune Overruling c
!, natural events for prOvidential puI
IS poses.
,e The Great Guidance
n A man told me last night that h
ID did not believe in p~rovidenCes. Wei
ID | do. What shall we say to the new
tO ina a OhlC liOlh CSSp( COnCeII
&c ing an accident to DR.. Samuel \
s. Zwemer. the seemingly indispensable
of leader OF Christianity'S struggle wit
in Islam? A minor accident compelle
DR.. Zwemer to go to the Operatin
table. Under the knife there w;
We found within his body a conditi
We which would J. I'VE meant death with
lie in a week had it not been revealed
ct the eyes Of surgeons. Yet. DR.. Even
err was not in the slightest deGr,
aware OF this condition. Who will So
ii that the accident was not provide,
wv tiai?
The story OF the Exodus is bou1
Ut up with the figures Of the pillar
of cloud and the pillar of fire that gui
.es ed by day and by night, and tn
d. i~nterposed as a shield of c~onfusi,
he between the Isfaelites and the Egg
nut tians. Gods guidance is none the lie
IN real today TO those who will follow
than 1t was TO these old Israelites. T
he great truth OF Christianity is that t
Lord cares for His Children. that