The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-04
International Sunday School Lesson
Fourth Quarter. Lesson
Numbers IL: Alb. October 5, 1913
Moses Cry For Hell
The Story.


mon grumbles was, "Why does the
minister always talk about those
old Jews? What have we to do
woth them?" The answer might
have been, Much every way" AL
though they lived so long ago and
so far away, the Hebrews were hui
man beings men and women
with hopes, fear, and frailties like
our own. Their story is cross
section of life. 1t is what life is
in every age and everywhere. In
this instance the story is peculiarly
exemplary, instructive, corrective,
and inspirational. To any individual
or mass of such, seeking an ideal
ethical, social, or spiritual-this
pilgrim and pillarled march is sug-
gestive and helpful in the last de-
gree. In point of fact, it is just
pictorial representation of humani-
tvs age-long quest of the "ulti
mate good" No progress, either of
the individual Or the mass, is un-
broken by moral ylapses, more or,
less shameful How true to nature,
il this instance, the stroke which
represents the present ills of Israel
as unbearable and magnifies the
small comforts of Egypt into deli
cious luxuries. Pharoah's bill-of-
fare included meat, fish, cucumbers,
melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
Jehovah's just mentions mama.
The complainers did not have sense
enough to consider which menu
was the better suited to the physi-
cal conditions that. then maintained
and, therefore, was most sanitary.
They all had to matriculate in the
expensive School of Experience.
Fools will learn in no other. With
the flesh for which they lusted
still between their teeth, multitudes
of them died. To picture an angry
God as shifting the people to death
is intolerably unworthy. God did
not do it at all, except through the
natural operation of those laws
which are absolutely impartial. The
soul that sins against these laws
dies today by their natural opera
ton. The proverbial consequences
of moral leadership has illustration
in Moses experience. He felt
that he was bearing all the people
alone. And he was. Hear his pa
thetic cry to God: Wherefore hast
thou afflicted thy servant, and
wherefore have I not found favor
in thy sight, that thou layest the
burden of all this people upon me?
Have I conceived all this people?
Have 1 begotten them, that thou
shouldst say, carry them in thy
bosom as a nursing father beareth
sucking child unto the land which
thou swearest unto their fathers?"
The condition has at length become
insufferable, but not before the
psychological hour in which
partition of responsibility can be
safely made A moment earlier it
would have been impossible. But
seventy men can now be found who,
in addition to native executive abili-
ty, share the vision and spirit of
Moses to such degree as to make
them serviceable. There was no
arbitrary transference of Moses
spirit. 1t was already upon them.
The call to service only quickened
it. and made the seventy conscious
of it's possession.
The Teachers Lantern.
The germ cells of elaborate rit-
uals are found in Israel's simple
matin and vesper prayers in the
wilderness. At the opening of the |
day. befor ne march began. Is
rael his face toward God
an full voice chanted, Rise |
up, Lord, and let thine enemies be
scattered, and let them that hate |
thee flee before thee When the |
day was done and the hour of re-
pose was at hand, Israel turned his
face once more toward God and cri-
ed, Return, o - Lord, unto the
many thousands of Israel" The
splendid establishment and disin-
of Moses has emphatic
in this instance. 1t was
reported to him that certain men
who had failed to file an appear
ance were yet prophesying. Joshua