Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-22
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For. Jan. 27, 1924-Ex. 1887 to 1927
BY DR.. MARION NIGH. HULL

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raelites to leave; they paid them to
! go and go quickly. Whatever they
asked of silver and gold or jewelry
| they gave them and were glad to
do it so long as they would leave the
| land. They figured it would be bet
ter to have life and nothing than to
keep what they had and be killed
and they were quite sure the God of
the Hebrews would destroy everyone
of them If they had stayed Thus
the people of Israel got their wages
that had been withheld so long from
them, and left with much goods.
They started northeast, but God
changed their course slightly. The
shortest way - Canaan was along
| the coast-road and through the land
| of the Philistines, but the Philis-
tines were trained in war and God
didn't want His people to get in war.
So He led them by the way of the
wilderness by the Red sea. They left
on the very day that the 430 years
| was up; Gods clock is always on
time. The Shekinah-as a pillar of
cloud by day and pillar of fire by
night-went before them, enabling
them to travel both by day and
night.
Just after they started, they
doubled on their tracks and led
Pharaoh to think that they had be-
come entangled in the wilderness
| After the shock Of the death of the
| tlrst-born, he began to think how
foolish he had been to let this val
liable and numerous people go, so
he prepared to overtake them and
bring them back. There were two
million Of them, six hundred thou
sand being men above twenty years
OF age; but they were unframed;
they were nothing but motley
crowd of slaves. So Pharaoh thought
that 900 of his best chariots would
be sufficient to overcome them and
bring them back.
1t was not difficult task to over
take this great company Of men,
women, children, flocks and herds.
When the trained army of Pharaoh
reached them, they were beside Pi.
ha-hi-roth-tbe Red Sea in front Of
them, the mountains on either size
of them, and the Egyptians behind
them. Bottled up, completely!
Delivered!
But you cannot bottle up Gods
people when they are in the way
OF His will. They might be hemmed
In on all sides, but the top is still
open. They began to complain to
Moses; they were great grumblers.
Moses was magnificent in his poise:
Fear We not" he said, "stand still
and see the salvation of Jehovah
which he will work for you today:
for the Egyptians whom We have
seen today, ye shall see them again
no more forever. Jehovah will fight
Tor you, and ye shall hold your
peace"
Moses was not quite so brave
when he was alone with God. He
realized the grave danger of their
position; that humanity speaking
they were trapped, and escape was
impossible. Gods answer to Moses
prayer was rather abrupt: Where
fore criest thou unto Me? Speak
unto the children of Israel that
they-Note carefully what He
said-that they go forward. Go
forward! Right in front of them was
the impossible barrier of the Red
Sea! All! God was ready to do two
thlngs-deliver His people, and make
Egypt know Him. So the Shekinah
Israel, between them and the Egyp-
tians. 1t was light to Israel, dark
ness to the Egyptians. That night
after Moses stretched out that rod
the east wind began to blow and
blew all night. Next morning a
path had been made through the
sea and dried up, the sea being held
back as a wall on either side. And
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Then Pharaoh's hosts followed in
hot pursuit. But what had been
protection to Gods people became
thelr destruction. God discounted
them; their chariot wheels came off;
they were thrown into confusion:
ana before they knew it the sea
closed In over them and every one
was drowned. Not so much as one
of them escaped! All that the Israel.
ties saw was a lot of, Egyptian
corpses washed ashore!
Then the Israelites saw, feared
| believed. They saw the great work
which Jehovah did; they feared-not
were afraid of-Jehovah realized
now what a wonderful God that
they had and how powerful and
gracious He is; they believed in .Je.
hovah, and also in His servant
Moses-they appreciated that God
could be trusted to deliver them and
that He had sent Moses to them.
There is nothing like deliveranee
from great catastrophe to make
people believe God. Recently in the
great earthquake one of the out.
standing facts was the safety Of
| GODS people. Miss onaries' lives ana
the lives of the native Christians
We're peculiarly precious in Gods
slght. Only yesterday a letter wis
received from Paul Kanamori, the
great Japanese evangelist, telling
now his own life and the lives of
everyone of his children had been
miraculously spared. But notice how
soon the Israelites forget.
After his beautiful song of victory
moses led the people southwark to-.
ward Sinai, there days in the wilder
ness. All the waters were brac[z.
ISM, not fit to drink. Did Israel trust
God to give the water? No, they mur.
| INJURED against Moses. Moses had a
place of refuge always under such
circumstances, and he went there