The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-01
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD

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norizon and capacity az 10. 'he
'Ao came 10 me at Chris,m,s ~
anu made me mother, and !,
was a Christ indeed and ua
q gwen me the Joy I'd dreamed
she nestled to mo and
~, near and warm. SURPRISED - 60
TX aims mat held my bal be 81 c,osa
were opened wider TO her kind
nv ner safe within my heart. Nv
neart, | said, is all for Won,
But 10. She left the door aisr IN
the world came ocking tbroreh
She needed me. learned to know
.ne royal JOY hat service brings.
one was SO helpless tha ! grew to
rove all little helpless things.
She trusted me, and / who Moor haa
u-; trusted, save in self, frew cold
win panic lest this precious life
Mould know no stronger. surer
she lay and smiled and in her ewes 7
watched my narrow world prow
abroad, "
Within her tiny. crumped hand I
touched the mighty hand Of Cod
A Deatbless Story.
n 1t comes to telling a story
with matches simplicity and dig
nifty, and power to write itself upon
the memory, there is nc language like
Here is h lesson story
as the inspired pen wrote it:
"And Pharaoh charged all his peo-
PIE, saying, Every son that is born We
shall cast into the river, and every
daughter We shall save alive.
And there went a man OF the
house Of Levi, and took to wife a
daughter Of Levi. And the woman
conceived, and bare a son: and when
she saw him that he was a goodly
child, h hid him three months. And
when h could not longer hide him.
She took for him an ark of bulrushes.
n daubed it with slime and with
pitch; and h put the child therein,
and laid it in the flags by the river
brink. And his sister stood afar of,
to know what would be done to him.
And the daughter Of Pharaoh came
down to battle at the river: and hel
maidens walked along by the river
side; and she saw the ark among the
flags, and sent her handmade to fetch
IT. And she opened it, and saw thu
child: and, behold. the babe wept
And n had compassion on him, .ant
said, This is one Of the Hebrews chill
dren. Then said his sister to Pha
raOh's daughter. Shall I go and cal
thee a nurse Of the Hebrew women
that she may nurse the child for thee
And Pharaoh's daughter said unit,
her, Take this child away, and nurs,
it for me, and 1 will give thee tn.
wages. And the woman took tn
child, and nurSed it."
Enter The Princess.
1t was the usage of EGYPTIAN WON
en-, even as it is today Of the wome1
along the Gauges and the Tigris, t
battle at stated places. The moth
, of Moses chose, with the cunning 0
llove, the spot known to everybody a
!, the scene Of the ceremonial ablution
of Pharaoh's daughter. The plot wa
!, perfectly transparent, and the prin
cess saw through it. but condoned
none the less. She doubtless well IN
! derstood when she rescued the HebreV
babe why it had been put there, an
the relationship of the little cir
Miriam, to it, and the motherhood c
:. the nurse secured for it.
Superfcially. women do not &c
! along as well together as do men, bu
in the depths of life women find them
selves closer kin. There never was
good oma appealed to in ain b
y the cry Of a baby. This is n pre-
historic language which stlrs the ele
mental abysses Of a woman natur'
When thefeeble cry Of the babe Nose
N IL " AHS -
was not a princess, but just a woma
with the ageless hunger for a chill
! in her heart.
- First in a royal line of history
makers, was this daughter of wealt
- and power who exercised the priv
lege of using her capacity for servlc
We can name g host of splendldly Ell
:, dOWed young women IN our own lar
and time who follow in the tram
:, PharaOh's daughter. The opportunl'
: to give a child his chance, Which III
before every woman of wealth, sta,
20 gers the imagination.
is What leaders of men. what mus
r clans. and artists. and writers ha'
been lost to the world because the
Sc was no Pharaoh's daughter near TO {
a service which is nObler than leadll
ne an army, A few days ago saw at
college graduation a young WON;
stenographer. who was glowing WI
al nride because a younger Telau
~ whom she a educated was IN q
al graduating class. That experience