The Republican journal., 1914-01-15
THE STORY OF MOSES.

at,It community. Whether you live on
ittle promontory overlooking the Pa
,ifc where you can view the waves lash
pg that wreck so recently dismantled,
sad oceans spray dashing high in the
sunlight as the waves break against the
r-..iutous rocks, or whether you live at
-ta foot of now-clad mountain where
--s gigantic mass of snow and ice move
down the slope with snail-like pace as
q a1scier. or sometimes breaking loose as
ar avalanche to crush whoever has dared
10 settle below; or whether you live on
tb- AMID plain where the heat of the sun
sorr.t times scorches the most luxuriant
vsgetation or perchance you may have
jve5 on those great plains where the
f1ry of the elements sometimes becomes
90 great as to destroy the proudest works
at man-in all these localities, either you
viii he the leader Moses, or some one
else sill assume that position.
Most leaders, like Moses, have been
born in obscurity. By the wrath of some
higher power, they have been hidden in
the bulrushes. They have found their
wav to the kings court to be educated.
have heard an institute instructor tell
Of ooking out car window to see a
hare footed boy warming his cold feet
b. standing on ground made warm by
the neat of the animal he had just driven
1f or his own comfort. More than one
mar in the room had done the same
thing Neither Moses nor any other
leader except Jesus has got off with
fort. DAY fast in the wilderness.
Jesus was learned in all the wisdom OF
The Jewish Synagogue. Moses master
81. s.. the learning of the Egyptians, the
most righly civilized nation of his times.
Every intelligent, energetic young
pe--oa may today sit at the door of one
i Of .r- eading educational institutions OF
re Lincoln endured the hardshlps
ar CURED the knowledge necessary to
s.oe. The tendency of this age is
nv to step from the Kings court into
the romised land without enduring the
4 forty.aay fast or the forty-year wander
4 ing rae wilderness, and then wonder
Euer the other fellow got there and you
Il diart t. Many an inherited business has
be turned over to some poor boy who
has -truggled up from the lower strata.
h The eader needs sympathy with the
peoy and you can not have sympathy
&ur.ass you have had experience. All of
Eogr most successful men have got their
Etwy day fast and forty-years in the
Wilderness during the early days of their
I.es In other words, there will be
Brans severe experiences calculated to
IT. fer higher usefulness in later life.
NV ave heard a certain speaker say
9Th IN PASSING along the streets of his
&h,Ffnod town he was haunted with
Sons Of the past and could almost hear
u Imagination the insulting tones OF
&tbosH who harassed his life when he was
Swhat those rich mems sons chose to call
A worthless little Dutch boy, because of
inferior clothing. Moses had similar
q Experiences and some others have Jared
"ors- than Moses did. When Moses
Ia ,0 on his eirand of mercy, Pharaoh
y e-ed to let the people go. Each
&aloe would sometimes cause him to
hnaae fair promises, and then when he
f.. to consider how much he would
Pnss The iabors of the 1sraelites he would
a TIL refuse tie let the people go. At the
pm Of the greatest plague, the blood
ppon the door posts was unique mark
r. DIVISION among the people which each
RI us today interprets in his own way.
j course, it is considered by all as an
mUem of the Christ blood which sepa-
ates people today. When Moses came
% the Red Sea, with mountains on either
loe and the hosts of the Egyptians pur-
ung, he stood where each individual of
hs age stands at some period of his
NJ. A way was made where there
eened to be no way and the enemy dis
appeared from view.
n Tins was indeed a critical moment in
o. life Of Moses. There are critical mo-
1neIis in the lives of each of US. There
moments when the decision of that
nof-0t determines our whole future
arrer- 1t may be the choosing of an
PEE" 4yion, the choosing of companion
TIE choosing of location.
Moses secured his wife by work, David
p ~ itary prowess, and we of today
oud scorn either method. 1t is some
PM ditticult to see why Moses held
Pes people forty years in the wilder
less 1t was doubtless for the same
eason that it took forty years training
lit Moses for leadership.
This forty years in the wilderness per-
aps did more for the advancement of
tVlllzation than any other forty years in
pc worlds history. A barbarous peo-
lie Is very crude material out of which
form the civilization of today.
The step is even greater than when
Gam was formed out of the dust of the
Ffth, We are told that the Jewish law
as school master to lead people to
lhrlst The Jewish law was the evolu-
|onary product of this wilderness Jour.