The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-02
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XIII me as you killed the Egyptian
Alarmed at this question, Moses
fled from the country and went to live
in the land of indian (Exod. ii. IL
15). There he became the father of
But at the end of forty years there
appeared to him in the Desert of
Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of
flame of fire in bush. When
Moses saw this he wondered at the
sight; but on his going up to look fur
ther, the voice of the Lord was
heard, saying,
ct am the God of your forefathers.
the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob
"Quaking with fear Moses did not
dare gaze.
Take off your shoes said the
Lord, for the spot on which you are
standing is holy ground. I have seen.
yes. I have seen the oppression of
My people who are in Egypt and
have heard their groans, and I have
come down to deliver them. And now
will send you to Egypt (Exod. iii.
100.
asking him, Who appointed you mag
Eistrate and judge ?-that same Moses
we find God sending as a magistrate
and a deliverer, by the help of the
angel who appeared to him in the
bush. This was he who brought them
out, after performing marvels and
signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea,
and in the Desert for forty years. This
is the Moses who said to the descen-
dants of Israel.
"'God will raise up a Prophet for
you, from among your brethren, just
as He raised me up (Deut. xviii. Is,
49,.
This is he who was among the
Congregation in the Desert, together
with the ~angeI who spoke to him on
Mount Sinai and with our forefathers,
who received everything utterances to
hand on to US.
Our forefathers. however. would
mot submit to him, but spurned his
authority and in their hearts turned
back. to Egypt. They said to Aaron,
Make gods for US, to march in
front of US; for as for this Moses who
brought US out of the land of Egypt,
we do not know what has become of
him (Exod. xxxii. 1-s).
Moreover they made calf at that
time, and offered sacrifice to the idol
and kept rejoicing in the gods which
their own hands had made. So God
turned from them and gave them up
to the worship of the Host of Heaven,
as it is written in the Book of the
Prophets,
"'Were they victims and sacrifices
which you offered Me,
Forty years in the Desert, o House
of Israel?
Yes, you lifted up Moloch's Tent
And the Star of the God Rephan-
The images which you made in Or
der to- worship them;
And I viii remove you beyond
Babylon (Amos ". 25-27).
'Our forefathers had the Tent of
the Testimony in the Desert, built as
He who spoke to Moses had instructed
him to make it in imitation of the
model which he had seen. That Tent
was bequeathed to the next generation
of our forefathers. Under Joshua
they brought it with them when they
were taking possession of the land of
the Gentle nations. whom God drove
out before them. So it continued till
David's time. David obtained favour
with God. and asked leave to provide
a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.
But it was Solomon who built a house
for Him. Yet tn Most High does not
dwell in buildings erected by mems
hands. But, as the Prophet declares,
" The sky is My throne
And earth is the footstool for Ny
feet.
What kind of house will you build
for Me, says the Lord,
Or what resting place shall have
Did not Ny hard form this universe
elsa lxYi. 1, p.
(To be Continued.)