The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20

up d plan much like the convict lease system. But they seemed to thrive under hardship. One tyranny was added to another, until finally an order was issued for the slaughter of all male children born to the Jews.
 Every school boy knows the story of the one Hebrew boy who was concealed in small boat, hidden in the reeds near the bank of the river. where he was discovered by Pharaoh's daughter and her maids when they went down to the royal bathing beach.
 One day so years later, Moses was feeding his flock in the valley. at the foot of Horeb mountain when he saw bush which seemed to be on fire He started over to see what it was, when a voice called him by name. and com manded him to take off his shoes. This was the setting for the sixth great covenant of sacred history. The God of nations was about to commission another man to "carry on" in the cam paign of the setting up of separate and peculiar nation.
 Meek as Moses is far from being a term of disparagment. Here it meant the absence of egotism; it meant an understanding which knows that no man is independent nor is able to do anything in life in his own strength or by his own power. Perhaps Moses is not to be condemned for offering ex- cuses in answer to the voice from the blazing sage brush.
 Commission Issued
 The commission was issued, and Moses with his own brother, Aaron, as his lieutenant, went to inform the people that their God understood their situation and was about to bring them relief. The newly commissioned leader teported to Pharaoh and showed him the orders. But it took river of blood, land covered with frogs, lice, flees, army worms and perhaps boil weevils; it took cholera among the ''saered' cattle, boils and carbuncles, cyclones and hail storms, and three days darkness to impress the tyrant with the importance of Moses mission. It took more than that-it took the smiting by the death angel of the first born in every Egyptian household, to sober the tyranny of that poor, ignor- ant, heather king.
 
 thrilling chapter than that which tells of the night when the death angel stalked up and down the Nile valley, sparing only the house where the blood was sprinkled on the door-facing. The annals of nations have no more instruc- tive passage than that which tells how the children of Israel that night stood equipped with their packs on their shoulders, waiting for the zero hour" to march out. That was the night in deed when nation was born. No wonder the feast of the Passover and the sacrament of the unleavened bread are still impressively observed by the descendants of the nation born that night. /
 The story of Israels afflication, Moses call and Gods deliverance, teaches it's own lessons so clearly that even he who runs may read and know Difficulties and temporary failures have their place in the making of ma tions and in the making of men as well. Power is developed by resis- tance; patience comes through tribu- lations; conflict and peril is the mother of heroism. Human sympathy and brotherhood are perfected in the cru cible of sorrow.
 He who saves his country, saves all
 things;
 And all things saved, bless him.
 He who loses his country, loses all
 things;
 And all things lost, accuse him.