The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-05
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson l.-1hird Quarter, For
July s, 1913.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.


Memory Verses, il, 9, 10-Golden
Text, Matt. xviii, documentary
Prepared by Rev. .. M. Stearna.
The Lord God had said to Abram
that his seed should be strangers in a
land not theirs and should serve them
and be afflicted 400 years (Gen. XIV, 13).
The children of Israel multiplied 80
rapidly that some time after the death
of Joseph and his brethren and all that
generation a new king. who disregard
ed the ~deliverance of Joseph, began to
Cypress the Israelites with cruel bond
age and to aflict them, but the more
they were afflicted the more they multi
piled and grew eek i, 6. 8, II, 12). The
king then decreed that every male
child among the people of Israel should
be drowned, but the women who wait
ed upon the women Of Israel feared
God rather than Pharaoh, and this
command OF the king was mot fully
obeyed.
At this time Moses was born and
was fair to God and nourished up in
his fathers house three months (Acts
vii, 20, M. "By faith Moses. when he
was born vas hid three months Of his
parents because they saw he was a
proper child and they were not afraid
Of the kings commandment" (Heb. ri,
23). In Elk. vi, 20, we learn that the
names Of the nan and woman Of the
house of Levi Of our lesson, the father
and mother Of Moses. were Amram
and Jochebed, and they had three chill
dren, Miriam, the eldest; then Aaron
and Moses (Num. XVI, 59). From
Mum. xxxiii, 80; Deut. xxxtv, Z; Elk.
vii, T., we learn that Aaron was three
years older than Moses. SO that Aaron
escaped the decree of death. We have
seen many things in the life Of Joseph
typical of the Lord Jesus, and we are
fully authorized by Deut. xviii, 1S, to
see many things in the life of Moses
typical of Christ, for the Lord said to
him. IT will raise them up a prophet
from among their brethren, like unto
thee, and will put my words in his
mouth, and he shall speak unto them
all that I shall command him"
AS Moses was born at a time when
all the male children were under SEN
tence Of death, so Herod sought to kill
Jesus by killing the male children of a
certain age in Bethlehem. Death is
the devils great weapon, but the Son
Of God took flesh and blood that
through death He might destroy him
that had the power of death-that is,
the devil' CHeb. Ii, 14). Concerning
the ark of bu1rushes which Jochebed
made for her dear baby boy, / have no
doubt but that she was instructed by
God to do this and just how to do 1t.
There are only two other arks in
Scripture. the ark Of Noah and the
ark of the Covenant, and neither Noah
nor Moses had anything to say or sug-
gest in the construction Of either. The
three arks are alike also in that they
were made to preserve their contents.
It will require a fond mothers heart
to understand the feelings Of this moth
er as she laid this little ark, with a
part of herself in it, in the flags by the
rivers brink. / believe that, like Abra-,
ham, she expected to receive her son
back again, and she did receive him
from the place of death, as we shall
see. The mother returned home with
aching heart. but prayerful and ex-
pectant, while Miriam stood afar of to
e what would be done to him.
See God working in the directing Of
the steps Of the kings daughter to the
very place and in the mothers placing
her treasure at that particular place.
See the little vessel opened, the weep
ing babe, the compassion in the heart
of the kings daughter. Miriam is on
hand, sees the compassion for the babe,
hears the words. This Is one Of the
Hebrews children" and is ready with
her question, "ShalI / go and cali to
thee a nurse of the Hebrew women
that she may nurse the child for thee?'
At the word $50" the maid won't and
called the child's mother.
Was ever maid SO glad, and did ever
willing feet carry a child SO fast?
Some day we may ask Miriam to tell
us, If she can, what her feelings were
that day. Can we imagine her greet
ing with what little breath she had left
after her run home: Mother, mother,
the kings daughter has our baby and
has sent me to get a nurse for it,!
Come, mother. come quickly!' Will
Jochebad tell us some time in the king
dom that from the time she reached
home till Miriam came she was I'm
ceasingly In prayer? It may have
been SO.
With a Joy she dare not manifest,
but with eagerness, she awaits the COM
mand. Take this child away and nurse
1T for me. and T will give thee thy
wages" Some mother must tell that
dear mothers heart as with her babe
clasped to her breast she quietly
but joyfully hastens home. What a
sad home 1t had been for d little while,
but now the burden Is gone, and Mir
lam, who eighty years later led the
praises of Israel eek. XIV, 90. oil must
have helped her mother to praise the
Of Israel that day. The babe
would be hers for some years anyway,
and perhaps the wages for nursing wa
Gods way of supplying an otherwise
scanty means OF support. Just as won
drously did the means come through
the wise n to take Joseph and Mary
and their precious babe down to Egypt.
In due time the little boy was returned