Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-01
CITES MOSES
AS HAVING MADE
Wise CHOICE
Rev. Pine Urges Hearers to
FOrsake WOrldliness for
High Ideals.
I:24-29.

In continuing the e~vangelistic serv.
ices that have been in progress at the
First Christian church for the last
fortnight, the Rev. J. A. Pine, pastor,
chose for his Sunday morning theme
"A Wise Choice" as exemplified in
Moses. who refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing
rather to share the lot of the people
of Israel than to enjoy the pleasures
Of sin for a season.
He spoke in part as follows:
"'Time wears all his locks before,
Take thou hold upon his forehead;
When he flies, he turns no more,
And behind his scalp is naked.
Works adjourned have many stays,
Long demurs breed new delays
"And Lowell wrote.
"'Once to every man aud nation
comes the moment to decide.
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
or the good Or evil side;
Some great cause. Gods new Messiah
offering each the bloom or
blight.
4 aus IL 6OdtS upOu iDt ItIt Hdfu, Ii
the sheep upon the right;
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt
the darkness and the light.
Then to side with truth is noble when
W. share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit,
and it's prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses,
while the coward stands aside,
Doubling in his abject spirit, till his
Lord is crucified.'
Moses lived a long time ago, when
the lamp of life was dim. Gods
chosen people were crushed in abject
slavery to a heather people, a slavery
of the most calling and humiliating
kind. God had promised His people a
homeland, a land flowing with milk
and honey with peace, prosperity and
could wish, but the reverse was true
then and the fulfillment of the promise
certainly looked to be a long way off.
BY a remarkable providence of God,
Moses had been rescued from the
death decreed upon all the male chill
dren of the enslaved people and
adopted into the household of Pharaoh
himself. as the foster son of the royal
princess. For this life of luxury. cul-
ture and power. he was trained in all
the wisdom of the Egyptians Jewish
tradition has it that he had become
a great general in the Egyptian army
and vas destined to become a leading
character in the realm. The world was
placed before him at its best.
Moses Heeds Call
Moses blood tie to the Hebrew
1ara. v-ar not n can~nt FNhntm cue /
fering had become so dreadful thai it
cried TO heaven for justice. The call
had come to Moses to be the leader
to lead his people out of bondage. It
was not forgotten that these enslaved
people were Gods chosen people. !
Their religion was far superior to that
of the nations round about, a mystical
worship of one god, who created all
things and reigned in heaven, in con-
trast to the Egyptian worship Of,
COWS. rivers, frogs. snakes. etc.
There was before them that promise
of a national existence with liberty
and power but also q faint promise Of
some far off world empire. Patriot
ism. religion, humanity. duty, called
loudly to Moses to choose the ardu-
Gus. dangerous life work of freeing
the Hebrew race. Perhaps, after all,
Shares III Treatment
an a marvellous. superhuman sim
the inspired writer says. by
faith Moses. when he was grown up,
to be called the son of Phar-
daughter, choosing rather to
i'll treatment with the people of
God than TO enjoy the pleasures of sin
for a season.; accounting the re-
proaches of Christ greater riches than
the treasures Of Egypt; for he looked
for the recompense of reward. By
faith be forsook Egypt, not fearing
wrath of the king, for he endured
as seeing him who is invisible. By
faith he kept the passover, and the
sprinkling of the blood. that the de-
Of the first-born should not
through the Red sea as on dry land,
the Egyptians assaying to do
were swallowed up. God was with
Moses all his life, upholding his spirit,
directing him with divine wisdom, sup
plying every need. meeting every
emergency, comforting him, keeping
him. If he had remained in Egypt we
never have heard of him. But
became the worlds greatest human
lawgiver. His stumbling speech was
to unrivaled eloquence at the
close OF a long and wonderful career.
he talked face to face with God. He
the great prototype of the
Christ. Was it worth while? God
has large plans for all those who will
place themselves subject to His will.
It has been so with all of Gods great
leaders.
Another War Threatened !
Thousands Of years have come and
gone since then, and all the promises
hat God made to the Hebrew people
come true. We are living in the
light of Gods full revelation.
it is the afternoon, it may be
The eventide of that day. All the light
IF a great history is shining full upon
Use. Yet this is largely an idolatrous
world, so-called enlightened nations
ire largely pagan. Seventy million
people in his foremost nation of the
have never submitted their lives
o Christ, even in a mere formal way.
It would seem that the majority of
men and women have forgotten God.
Many thousands are lovers of pleasure,
overs of gold, lovers of evil things
more than lovers Of God. If the con-
Of "a nations at Genoa is an
index, the world is threatened with an
,ther awful war. Civilization and cul-
.ural idaoIo oro totforinU IN a foil All