The Republican., 1924-01-17
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Prepared especially for The Republi
can by Rev. U. S. Wright, D. D.
MOSES CALLED TO DELIVER


BY faith Moses, when he was grown
up, refused 10 be called the son of
PharOah's daughter, choosing rather
TO share i'll treatment with the PEG
ple of God, than to enjoy the pleas
Hres Of sin for a seas0n.-Heb. II:
"a, 25.
THE PREPARATION
The clock strikes, but there have
been minutes of slow movement to
make it possible. Turning back to
the pages of yesterday one finds that
shocking July, 1914, was not unheral-
ded nor unprepared for. Going fur
ther back to these old days of the
Book the events that star it's pages
emerged often suddenly enough, but
came out of long stretches of slow
moving, oft silent forces that brought
them into being. The great day of
Hebrew history recalled in the still
kept Passover was no sudden up
heaval but the climax of a long pro-
gression.
When Jacob led his family into
Egypt at the invitation Of Joseph, its
Prime Minister, there was the hearth
est of welcomes that persisted thru
the days of the alien kings. But
Egypt revolted against foreign au-
thority just as we would do and clear
ed out the whole old regime Natur.
ally any connection with that discred-
tied rule would be looked upon with
suspicion and the mass Of Hebrews
who were linked with the desert dread
shared this distrust. But these Egyp-
tan leaders were not fools. Any cour-
teous man who looked into the face
of his train seat-mate and said, "nce
day." was greeted by, you're a Jew,
aren't you?" Yes, sir, Pm a jew"
came the prompt response. "Well,
continued the other, "I'm a Yankee
and in the little village in Maine
where [ came from I'm proud to say
there isn't jew" well, was the
reply, chats why it's a village Co.
Shen was prosperous under the He
brew occupancy and all Egypt shared
the widespread results of their ac-
Civities and Pharaoh had no wish to
lose the riches they We're creating so
they were permitted to stay But
more and more the ruling class deter
mined to exploit their industry and
skill 50 that they were more and more
enslaved The final step was racial
extinction in the killing Of the male
babies. Evidently the women were
to be absorbed and made to contrib
uta their vitality to children of inter-
racial marriage so that Egypt would
be the gamer. Under such pressure
there came a mass unity impossible
without it and a consciousness Of IN
ity without which the making of a
nation was out Of the question. The
same thing is seen today in the class
and race conscious groups in the world
life.
THE LEADER
If it is true that the hour and the
man always meet, then somebody has
to plan for it to come to pass. And
Somebody was planning for the man
who should become the leader of the
movement that has had more inAu-
ence upon human history than any
other single thing in that old day.
The story Of Moses is one Of the
thrilling chapters of world advance.
His eyes opened in slave hut, his
boyhood was spent in a palace, his
youth in army camps, his manhood in
administrative activities OF a great
empire, his years of maturity in des
ert exile, his later life in the leader
ship of a strike and in the organiza-
ton of a nation. Fiction holds no
stranger tale nor history a more
striking story. There is small need
to pause over the details for they are
too well known. Every child has
heard of the rescue of the baby from
the river and has been helped by the
faith of the humble home that dared
to trust God because there was no
other possible relief. And it was
from that same slave mother that he
drew that sense of God that held
him steady thru the palace days and
gave him the passionate democracy
that Knocked at opposition anywhere.
If our homes We're as influential as
that slave hut then a new chapter
would be written in world life and
religion. With the best the palace
could give he came to manhood splen-
didly equipped for rule. Perhaps he
might have occupied the throne but
somewhere along the way came the
great decision of how he would use
power if he had it. Would he ex-
plot the poor for the benefit of the
ruling classes? At any rate he would
know the conditions of the slave
group so he went out to see for HIM
self and found conditions worse than
he had dreamed so that his anger
famed and he left body still upon
the sand as a result But while the