Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-17
Golden Text: Fear We not, stand
still, and see the salvation of Je-
hoVah. Elk. 14:13.

hovah. Elk. 14:13.
A coffin lay unburied in Egypt
for $50 years, a constant witness
and continual prophecy. It's occu-
pant was forgotten by the people
of the land who had been saved by
him. The king on the throne-Well,
we are hearing a great deal about
him or his immediate predecessor
these days. King Akhenaten had
revolted from the ancient faith, but
his son-in-law, King Tutankhamen,
whose tomb with it's treasures has
just been unearthed, returned to the
ancient faith of the Egyptians, and
under the Influence of the priests Of
Amen, began a persecution of every
thing that was Egyptian. The
faith of the heretics had been Ash
atic the faith of the Israeiltes was
Asiatic; therefore down with the
Asiatics! Down with every alien!
With every foreigner!
Rameses the Great took up the
cry, and increased the bitter perse
cution of the Israelites. They had
become very numerous, and the
presence in the land of so large a
company of people who held a faith
contrary to that of the Egyptians
made them a menace. He made
slaves of them and with their labor
built the great fortress of PithOm
and other walled cities. He was
followed by Seti, who issued the dia
bolical order that every boy baby
should be killed.
The Preparation of a Leader
The story of the rescue of the
baby son of Amram and Jachebed,
his adoption by the sister of the
king, Pharaoh's daughter; his early
training by his own mother in the
Hebrew lore and learning, its his
tory and it's hopes; his further edu
cation to become the king of Egypt,
including all the wisdom of that
very highly civilized nation; his
beginning realization of the situa'
ton in which he found himself
all but the last of this is we'll
known by every child. Forty years
more had passed in this way, max
ing 800 years since Jacob and his
sons had come into Egypt.
The opposition of the Israelites
disturbed the even tenor of the
thoughts of the prince of Egypt
His adopted mother had named him
Moses from an Egyptian god and
because of her discovery of him. He
was face to face with a great prob
lem-what was his duty? to stay
where he was and inherit the throne
(for the inheritance came through
the daughter), or to identify himself
with his people and suffer with
them? He was helped to a decision
by an unburied coffin. by faith he
refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather
to suffer affliction with the people of
God than to enjoy the pleasures OF
sin for a season; for he had respect
unto the recompense of the reward. -
(Ieb. 11:24-26) He deliberately set
aside the throne, to get what he
considered more valuable. He de.
liberately refused the material that
he might get the spiritual. We have
long enough to see how wise his
choice vast paid great dividends.
The immediate occasion that reg
istered his decision came one day
where he saw an Egyptian cruelty
treating one of his brethren. He
took things in his own hands and
slew him. But he was not quite sure
of his ground, so he hid the body in
the sand. The truth is that he was
not ready yet, there was very
necessary part of his preparation
that must be done, and an incident
reXt day was the means of bringing
it about. He thought that everybody
knew who he was; and his training,
ard the great military exploits he
had accomplished and his loyalty to
his people. So when two of his
brethren were found in q dispute
he tried to settle it. One asked him
who made him a judge among them
and reminded him Of his affair with
the dead Egyptian. Moses became
frightened and left Egypt imme d.
ately.
In. the desrt region of the Sinai
peninsular he came upon some girls
at a well. His court manners stood
him in we'll here, and by his gra'
ciousness he won a home and a wife.
Jethro, his father-in- law was a priest
of INDIAN and a wealthy man.
Moses was given the job of shep-
herd of his flocks. Quite a come
down-the prince of the Egyptian
IIlIOIICJ a LuS1I4NC 1LOIiI JNA9IlCO' ~
ucated in all the wisdom Of the
Egyptian universities, the leader of
successful military expeditions, now
a shepherd in the wilderness Of
INDIAN! And this continued for a
period of nearly forty years! 1t GER
tainly looked like his life was mis-
cradle failure.
But this training was very neces-
sary. By it Moses learned the ways
Of the desert. He slearned to locate
the springs, the grassy places, the
GASES. He leraned the ways of it's
people; its protected spots; it's short
cuts. More than this he learned to
be patient and to wait on God. He
had still his hopes and aspirations;
but he had learned that God had
time to do things and God could not
be hurried. Think this through
Moses did not lose his faith in God
because he had made Il ness Of
things; in the long years of the wild
erness period he still believed, and
learned how to AIT on Him.
The Call 20 Libcrate
One day he saw strange sight-a
bush on fire, but was not consumed.
God was in that bush and spoke to
Moses. That is a whole story in
itself; let these two points of it suf-
flee here. The bush was a type of
his people-burning up but not con-