The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-05
THE GREAT DELIVERANCE
AND ITS MEMORIAL
The International Sunday School les
son for August 10 Is: THE Pass.
over" Tx. 12:1.42.
(By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)


Every year this world witnesses a
strange sight. In the ghettOes Of War
say and London n New York in
Inc mud houses Of Eagdad and Mosul.
and in Yeamen, there is held a mys-
ferrous celebration. But it is not con
nned To the dwellings, Of the poor. In
,be palaces of the worlds richest
bankers in the luxurious homes Of
great iurists and scholars, exactly the
came kind of observance may be seen.
This is the world-girdling feast of
the Passover. which for more han
three thousand years mas been main
tanned after the same fashion. We
marvel at the pyramids of stone with
their long life, but they are only
stone-lifeless things which the dry
ar If Egypt preserves. Here in the
Passover is a living custom, which
is carried through with the same
tense human feeling today as three
thousand years ago. Here are herbs
as then. the roast lamb as then. the
unleavened bread, and the household
grit as for travel.
The persistence of such a uSage
which has been mistaken by the
crashing to ruiz of all the empires
that have lived since Moses first in
sttuted the ceremony, is a marvel Of
history. The Passover has lived
through the rise and fall of all the
world c~onQuerors. 1t has been phi
losophy and science transformed
Marvellous Inventions, in continents
undreamed of at its birth, have not
affected the Passover. 1t was old
before Buddah or Confucius was born.
II is more ancient than the Christian
era. All venerable things seem young
alongside of this vitalizing rite which
today is kept over the whole earth.
The Child's Question.
once a year, wherever devout Jews
keep the Passover. the children ask
What mean we by this service?"
Then the head of the house tells the
tan night, when the Chosen People
were delivered and their oppressors
were punished by the supreme visi-
ttion Of heaven. The story is best
told in the words Of Holy Writ:
Then Moses called for all the elders
Of Israel, and said unto them, Draw
cut, and take you lambs according to
your families, and kill the. passover.
And We shall take a bunch Of hyssop,
and dip it in the blood that is in the
basin. and trik the Intel and the
two side posts with the blood that is
In the basin; and none of you shall
go out of the door of his hou until
thu morning. For Jehovah will pass
through to smite the Egyptians; and
when he seeth the blood upon the
Intel, and on the two side posts, Je-
hOvah viii pass over the door, anC
will not suffer the destroyer to come
In unto your houses to Smite you. Ane
ye shall observe this thing for an or
dinance to thee and to thy sons for
ever. And il shall come to pass Whel
Je are come to the land which Je
hovah will give yOu, according as n
hath promised, that We shall keep thl
service. And it shall come to pass
when your children shall say unto you
What mean We by this service! tina
We shall say. 1t is the sacrifice of Je
hovah's passover, who passed over tn
houses Of the children Of Israel II
Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians
and delivered our houses. And tn
people bowed the head and worship
ped. And the children of Israel wen
and did so; as Jehovah had com
manded Moses and Aaron, 80 did the!
And 1t came to pass at midnlgh
mat Jehovah smOte all the frst-bOr
IN the land of Egypt, from the first
corn of Pharaoh that sat on n
throne unto the first-born Of the CAP
i've hat was in the dungeon; an
all the irst-born Of cattle. And Phs
raoh rose up in the night. he. and a
ms servants, and all the Egyptian:
ana there was a great cry IN Egyt
wv 'hcIe was not a mouse WneTe tHei
was not one dead. And he called II
Moses and Aaron by night, n sal
hlSe up. get you forth from among m
people, both we and the children
%.Srael; and go, serve Jehovah as J
nave said. Take both your fOcks an
your herds. as We have said. and I
zone. and bless me also. And II
EGYPTIANS were urgent upon the pc
pi" To send them out of the land
haste; for they said, We are all dee
men. And the people took their doue
before it was leavened, their knea1
ing troughs being bound up in the
ciothes upon their shoulder And Il
children Of Israel did according to Il
word OF Noses; and they asked OF Il
egyptians jewels Of silver, n jewe
"l gold. and raiment; and Jehov:
KAYE the people favor in the sight
me Egyptians, so that they let the
nave they asked. And they d
spoiled h Egyptians"
n New Era for q Nation.
The sun set that day over a col
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