Evening star., 1918-01-25

and the next day the ptllbearers and the
hearse came. The others may have slept
| Soundly. but there was no sleep for you,
and ! can imagine there was no sleep for
| Moses mother
Home Guarded by Angels, He Says.
! Some people often say to me: I
/ wonder what the angels do: how they
| employ their time" l think / know
what some of them did that night You
:, can bet they were not out to some
| bridge whist party. They guarded that
house so carefully that not a. soldier of
! old Pharaoh ever crossed the thresh-
! old They saw to it that not one of
| them harmed that baby.
AT dawn the mother must have kiss
ed hlm goodbye. placed him in the ark
and hid him among the reeds and rush.
! es. and with an aching heart and tear
ulmnleu eyes she turned back again to
the field and back to the brick yards to
labor, and wait to see what God will do
She has done her prayerful best, and
when YOU have done that you can bank
| on 1t that God will not fail you. How
easy 1t is for God to give Ghe needed
| help. no matter how hopeless it might
seem. if we only believe that with God
All Things are possible, no matter how
lmpro ba Die. What unexpected answers
the Lord would give to our PRAYERS.
She knew God would help her some
way. but l don't think she ever dream
ed that God would help her by sending
fharaohs daughter to care for the
child: but it was no harder for God to
sehd the princess than 1t was to get the
mother to prepare the ark What was
impossible from her standpoint was
easy for God
All Heaven Interested.
"Pharaohs daughter came down to
the water to bathe. and the ark was
discovered. just as God wanted it TO be.
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IT, You often wonder what the angels
are doing. l think some of the angels
herded the crocodiles on the other side
OF the Nile to keep them from finding
moses and eating him up. You can bank
on it, all heaven was interested to see
that not one hair of that baby's head
was injured. There weren't devils
enough in hell to pull one hair out of
us head. You may be sure the angels
were not out to some bridge whist
party then. God had something for
them to do. The ark was brought, and,
with feminine curiosity, the daughter
OF Pharaoh had to look into it to see
what was there, and when they remov-
ed the cover there was lying q strong.
healthy baby boy, kicking up its heels
and sucking his thumbs. as probably
most OF us did when we were boys, and
probably as you did when you were a
girl The baby looks up and weeps.
and those tears blotted out all that was
against 1t and gave it a chance for it's
lie. ! don't know. but l think an
angel stood there and pinched it to
time Just as God plans. God always
tdoes things at the right time. Give God
chance; He may be little slow at
times. but He will ALWAYS ret around
| in time.
The tears of that baby were the
jewels with which Israel was ransomed
from Egyptian bondage. The princess
had a woman's heart and when a
nd hohr
something happens that gives the devil
cold feet. Perhaps the princess had a
baby that had died. and the sight of
Moses may have torn the wound open
woman's heart, and that made her
forget she was the daughter of Pha-
raoh and she was determined to give
nps he to Lord ehas Be- Daey Dassea for @
iam). saw the heart of the princess re-
fected in her face. Miriam had stu
died faces so much that she could read
the princess heart as plainly as if writ
her: Shall l go and get one Of the
Hebrew women to nurse the child for
your and the princess said, go
Moses a Chosen Vessel
Moses was a chosen vessel of the
Lord. and God wanted him to get the
right kind of a start, SO He gave Elm
a good mother. There wasn't college
professor in all Egypt that God would
trust with that baby! so He put the
child back in its mothers arms. He
knew the best one on earth to trust
with that baby was it's own mother.
When God sends US great men He wants
to have them get the right kind of
lstart. So He sees to. it that they have a
| good mother. Most any old stick will
do for daddy. God is particular about
| the mothers.
! And so the great need of this coun-
| try, or any country, is good mothers,
and believe we have more good moth
ers In America than any other nation
on earth. If Washington's mother had
i been like a Happy Hooligan's mother
Washington would have been a Happy
Hooligan.
. Somebody has said, God could not
be everywhere. SO He gave us mothers
Now, there may be poetry in it, but it's
true that the hand that rocks the era
die rules the world and if every cradle
! was rocked by a good mother the world
would be full of good men as sure as
you breathe. If every boy and every
girl today had good mother the sa-
looms and disreputabie houses would go
out of business tomorrow.
Theme of Sermon Last Night.
Weighed and Found Wanting" was
! the theme Of the evangelist'S sermon
last night. He said, in part, as follows:
! Daniel said. You are weighed in
, the balances and are found wanting
Whose balances? Gods, Not mine
| or yours Not your own estimation of
/ yourself, not the public opinion. You
! may be great man so far as the pub
/ lie opinion is concerned. while you may
! be mutt so far as God Almighty is
concerned.
Man may applaud you and God turn
HIs back on you. God doesn't pay the