The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-28

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not fear when God is there.
And when the day dawned she
kissed that child, placed him in the
ark and put the ark among the reeds
and with aching heart and streaming
eyes she turns back again to the fields
and the brick yards to bare her back
and labor, and waits to see what God
will do. She had done her prayerful
best, and God never fails the man or
woman who does his prayerful best.
Oh! how easy it was for God to
give the needed help, What noun
only anchored to the fact that with
God all things are possible, no mat
ter how seemingly impossible
And what surprises God Almighty
would give to some, and unexpected
answers to our prayers, if we only be-
lieve and trust in Him.
She knew that God would help her
some way, but l do not believe she
ever dreamed that God would ever
souch the heart of old Pharoah's
daughters and send her to help her,
and it was not hard for God to send
the princess from the throne of Egypt
TO take care of that baby.
And the ark was discovered just as
God wanted it to be and Pharoah's
daughter, when she went down with
her maids as was her custom to the
water to battle, she spied this ark
among the reeds and she sent one of
the maids to fetch it.
/ think some of the maids herded
the crocodiles over on the other side
of the Nile lest in swimming around
they might scent the flesh and tear
the child to shreds and eat it. And
all Heaven was watching over him.
And the cover was removed and
they saw a strong, healthy baby, per-
haps sucking his thumb like you did
when you were a baby. And the
baby looked up into a strange face
and began to cry, and those tears
blotted out everything that was
against it and gave it chance for its
life.
Angels Must Have
Guarded Infant
! / think the angels must have stood
there and pinched the baby to make
it cry at the right time. Nothing hap
pens by luck or chance The planets
swing in their appointed 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 ransomed his chosen people
and led the Jews from Egyptian bond
age under the leadership of that lit
tile fellow, when he grew to be man
Moses.
This princess had a woman's heart
and when a woman's heart and q
baby's tears meet, something is going
to happen that will give the Devil cold
feet, take it from me.
Perhaps she had had a baby of her
own; her baby might have been dead
and the sight of that little tot there
tore open the wound in her heart and
made it bleed afresh. But never mind
about that; she was woman and she
had woman's heart. She knew that
her dad had issued orders to kill all
4 Hebrew male children and she was
going to protect that boy and faith
full little Miriam.
She stood there and never booed
or peeped that she knew about this
frame-up and she saw the heart of the
/ princess reflected in her face just as
plainly as if it had been an open
book
! | 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 his business. You
take your watch into a jeweler-he
can tell whether it is any good when
he looks at it.
| So Miriam saw the heart of this
princess reflected in her face and she
said, shall l go and get one of the
Hebrew women to nurse him for
your"
Baby Handed Back
to Its Mother
And Pharoah's daughter said to her
go and get her." and l can see the
bare feet of little Miriam as she goes
to her mother, and in a little while
/ back she comes, leading her mother
by the hand. And Pharoah's daughter
took the little fellow out of the ark
and handed him over to his own moth
err, although she did not know it, an6
as she did it, she said in the words oil
my text, you take this child anG
nurse it for me-"
And she was being paid Egyptian
money to do what her heart yearnec
above all things to do, nurse and hug
and kiss her own baby.
i How quickly the mother was paic
for all the hours of anxiety and alarm
and grief! thlnksGOd gave her Spe
cial dispensation and grace to keel
her from dying from joy; and if thu
angels were on earth how hilariou!
they must have been to see Moses il
his mothers arms, hiking home, ant
so the mother would have to go GU
to work no more.
When she gets to her little shacl
she drops on her knees and pours ou
~ q ho6 rf
her. She knew the Lord would heal
her and take care of her baby wheI
she put him in the ark; but, folks,
do not believe she ever dreamed tina
her baby would ever be put back int
her arms to care for, and she be takeI
out of the fields where she would no
have to slave, nor be half frightenet
to death for fear somebody had fount