The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-09
The LOUe Stories
of the Bible
BY Rev. Thomas B. Gregory
ICoUrah.. 1870 ~ Tn Prrss Publsldns o..
(Ths New York ETsning Woridl.
No. 4 - Moses and JetIvO'e
Daughter.

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MI Jewish history, who freed Isa
rael from the Egyptian bonda
age and put them in the way OF be-
coming a great people. was a starts
ling combination Of oak and vines
strength and tenderness, logic and
sentiment.
The oak in Moses is shown In the
way he treated the proud, tyrannical
Egyptian he saw in the act of putting
the lash on the bare, qutvering shoul-
ders OF a Jewish slave. That slave
was Moses's countryman, and in hot
indignation he killed the man who
was degrading him
And now tor che vine, as seen In
the story told in Exodus, 3:
And when Pharaoh heard this thing
(the staying Of his oficiaD. he sought
to slay Moses. But Moses fed from
! the face OF Pharaoh, and dwelt in thS
land of INDIAN; and he sat down by
a well. Now the priest OF INDIAN had
| seven daughters, and they came ands
drew water and filled the trouEhs to
water their fathers flock. And the
shepherds came and drove them
away; but Moses stood up and helped
them, and watered their flock. And
when, they came to their father ne
said. How Is it We are come so soon
to- day?" And they said. AN Egyp-
tian delivered us out Of the hand Of
the shepherds, and moreover, he drew
water for us and watered the flock"
And he said unto his dau ghters, And
where is her Why is 1t that We hava
left the man? Call him. that he NAV
eat bread" And Moses was content
to dwell with the man: and he gave
Moses Zipporah, his daughter. And
she bare him a son, and he called his
name Gershom, for he said. Il have
been a sojourner in a strange land"
| Very beautiful was the strong
mans chivalry as depicted in the
story. but the episode did not end
there. Among the seven maidens BY
the well was one whose beauty hsA'
enthralled the strong mans heart, and
when offered a reward by the father
for his gallantry to his daughters.
Moses said, Give me Zipporah."
Moses spent what may be called hbs
honeymoon in INDIAN. acting as tho
keeper Of his father-in laws sheep,
I and we may De sure uhaL as ne
watched his flock by night under the
big bright stars OF those cloudless
/ heavens he mad by his side hts be-
loved Zipporah as assistant in his
vigils.
1t was indeed an idyllic existence
and should have lasted forever Bot
the stars up to which Moses looked
there in the desert were about to call
him to wider fields and a larger des-
tiny. While watching over his flock
one day at the base OF Horeb, the
Eternal called him to the task OF de-
lvering Israel from the EGYPTIAN
Z bondage, and he did the work as orly
a great man could. 1t was one OF the
heaviest Jobs that man ever had 10 do
but It was done with completeness.
But midst the excitement and re-
sponsibility OF his great task, Moses
did not forget his ZippOruh.s And
Moses took his wife and his sons
and set them upon an ass, and he
returned TO the land OF Egypt"
Later on, after the Red Sea had
been crossed and Moses and his
people were well into the wilderness,
Jethro overlook him, doubtless by
Mosess orders, And he said unS
Moses l, thy father in law, Jethro.
am come unto thee, and thy wife and
her two sons with her. And Moses
went out to meet his father in law,
and did obeiSance, and kissed him"
We may be sure that there were
other kisses-foT Zipporah and her
sons.
This is the la6t glimpse We have
of the maiden who smote the stran-
gers heart at the well in Midian,
but we may be confident that AS
.the sunfower turns to its god whom
The sets the same look that it gave
when he rose" Moses remained 10
the very end faithful TO his first