The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
TODAY''S BIBLE TALK
BY GEORGE LEWIS BALES

I Z-and cdr1menced punitive expedition l that never returned. .s 1 mmediately the division commanders began to- complain against the general issimo. Mutinous rumblings spread down through each grade of command l until almost, all the people were openly
 denanding the reason for being led into
 such g place to be slaughtered by the
 Egyptians.
 l r., Fear not" answered Moses Stand I still, and see how God will save you. Hhe Lord will fight for you and you fshaH stand still and see your enemies sIain.'' M It must have been the memory of this | that fired the soul of Patrick Henry, on
 that March day in 1775, in the Revolu- tionary convention in Virginia, when he said, An appeal to arms and to the, God
 of Hosts. is all that is left us. Three
 million of people, armed in. the only cause of liberty, and in such country | as that which we possess, are invincible
 to any force which our enemies can
 send against us. Besides, sir. we shall
 not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destiny of nations, and who will raise up friends
 to fight our battles for us." Same Great Ally
 | It was the same Ally who stood with the rustic bowmen of Harold on the | field of Hastings and fought with them their battles to save Saxon England l from the conquering Normans He was
 the same who helped Edward at Crecy to brake the might of France; He-was | the same who stood with the belted
 barons of Runnymede to wiring from
 the grudging hand of John the Magma Charta He is the same who stood with ! the embattled farmers of Lexington and Bunker Hill when they marked in the
 red snows the foot prints for liberty to
 follow in; He is the same who deter
 mined the issue when the gray-clad men of Pickett. and Wheeler. and Stonewall
 Jackson and Lee-when, the blue-clad
 men with Hooker fought above the clouds of Lookout mountain, or with
 Grant in the wilderness; when victors
 and vanquished were both Americans.
 He was the same Ally who stood by when democracy on the one hand and autocracy on the other, began the death
 grapple in 1914. On August %, the general battle began. Belgium's heroic
 resistance had compelled France. in
 honor, to hasten to the rescue. Now the rescue failed and there followed the wild. terrifying days for western Flu rope. The enemy moved further and ! further. forward with the same syste-
 matic grimness which they had shown lin Belgium. They marched and fought fand rioted with the strength of deiirium, lplundering France. and moving on their way to Paris. On September 3, the | government officially withdrew from the capital and established itself at Bor- deaux.
 1 The present generation, at least will never forget the dramatic moment of
 the German armies change of direction. Was it not the same hand that parted the waves of the Red sea. that now turned Won Kluck eastward and aside from his first objectivn! The retreat ceased. South of the Marne river in a great curved line swin ring from Paris to VerdvueA Athe French had turned at bay to begin the mighty battle of the Marne. For four days the slaughter and the havoc was awful. The French were almost exhausted. General Foch had used the last of his reserves. He summoned his men for one final ef- fort and-smashed throueh the enemy's line. Thus was ended the first, and what historians are calling "perhaps the crucial campaign of the war;. de suite all the four terrible years that fol- lowed. - ...-=.=
 In that battle which saved the world. surely the same power that stretched forth Moses hand and parted the waves, now parted the line of bayonets and bat teries of machine guns and Howitzers, and saved yet other nations battling in the name of liberty, justice, freedom and democracy.
 The names of Moses and Abraham Lincoln have many times been linked to- gether. Said Lincoln: Il am confident that when the Almighty wants me to do, or not to do, particular thing, he flpds a way of letting me know it, and pro vides a means by which the thing shall be done."
 As it is with nations, so it is with individuals--"lAs was with Moses so will be with thee."
 God moves in mysterious way
 His wonders to perform;
 He plants His footsteps on the sea,