The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-01
MOTHERS
Sermon by Billy Sunday Delivered at CITY Auditorium
-. afternoon Of January Sd

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C. haps sucking his thumb like you dl
when you were a baby. And III
e baby look. up into "a strange fac
: and began to cry and those tear
! biotted out everything that wa
against II and gave it chance 70
; its life
think the angels must have stooc
: there and pinched the baby to make
il Try 81 the right time. Nothing hap
pel's by luck or chance. The planet'
swing in their 4 ppointcd orbit they
never cross the path OF another, but
the tears Of that little boy in the ARK
were the Jewels with which God Al
! mighty ransoiued his chosen people
and led the Jews from Egyptian
! bondage under the leadership OF that
/ Little fellow. when he grew tn he d
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This princess had wou1an's heart
and when womaus heart and q
\ haby's tears meet something is gong
70 happen that Will give the devil cold
feet, take Il frora nae,
The Mother Heart
.prrs4ls she had had baey of her
own her baby might have been dead
, and th@ sight Of that little tot there
: tore open she wound in her heart and
made il hieed afresh. But never mind
about that she wa& a woman and she
had = w0maa's heart. She knew that
her dad ha9 issued orders to Kill all
Hebrew male children and she was
going to protect that boy and faithful
/ liftle Miriam s>w
she stood there and rover hooed or
( peepe1 that sne knew about this
( trarne-up and she saw The heart OF
/ tho princess reflected in her face just
AS plainly as IL Il had been an open
l hook
Know what is pounding beneath
/ your skin Just by the look of your
+ face WHY A policeman can tell
; The minute he looks into the face OF
/ a crook That Is mis- business You
! take your watch into "a jewelcr-~-he
! can tell whether it Is any good when
I he looks AT IL.
So Miriam saw the heart of this
princess reflected in her face and she
+ said: Shall / go and get one of the
/ Hebrew women to nurse him for
/ YOU"
/ And pharaohs daughter said to
her, Go and get her" and can see
: the bare feet of little Miriam "a she
= goes to her mother and in little
while back she comes. leading her
mother by the hand. And Pharaoh :
daughter took the little fellow out oil
! the ark and handed him over to his
own mother. although she did no;
know 1t, and rs she did 1T. she said In
'+9e words OF my text. You take .hif
( child and nurse it for me-
And she was being paid Egyptian
money to do what her heart yearned
above all things 40 do; nurse and hug
and kiss her own baby.
How quickly the mother was paid
, fer all the hours OF anxiety and
alarm and grief. | think God gave
her special dispe nsation and grace
TO keep her from dying from Joy
and II the angels were on earth how
hilarious they must have been to Sc.
Moses in his mothers arms hikint
home. and so tho mother would have
TO 20 out to work no more.
When she gets To her little shacl
she drops on her knees and pours gu
/ her heart to Cod for he had hear,
her. She knew the Lord would hea
her and take care of her baby whe,
she put him in The ark. but folks,
dc not believe she ever dreamed tina
her baby would ever be put back int
taken out OF the fields where sh,
would not have TO slave. nor be hal
frightened 10 death for fear sore
body had found the baby and hal
Killed il, and the stony-heartod Pha
Z raoh would pay her
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