The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-01-18

Welt It generally takes = series Of
bad years before real progress devel-
ops to any appreciable extent. The
exigencies that have beset the human
family ever since the dawn Of history
but provide the incentive that leads on
TO liberation. And back Of each re-
dempiive movement stands the God
sent leader. As Lowell has memoir
ably written:
Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne;
Yet that scafold sways the future
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow,
Still! watching DER His own.
when the times cali for great lead
ership God never disappoints US That
is the only way one can accoun for
the careers OF Moses. Paul. Luther,
Washington. Lincoln and countless
other world heroes whose names are
written large on the pages Of the his
toric era in which they lived. Jesus
came in the fulness Of time and the
iulness OF time had arrived for the
emancipation under Moses. As Nor
dccai said to Esther, Who knoweth
whether thou art come TO the king
dom for such a time as this? The
question must be answered in the al
hrmative.
1T Is well 10 note the preparation
that Moses was compelled to receive
God called him to his task.
After forty years in Pharoah's court
he thought the time was ready to es-
Dousc his peoples cause. So he called
himself to the task, slew an Egyptian
Who was fighting with one OF his '
brethren. but received no thanks from
he one he befriended, neither was he d
acclaimed as a deliverer OF leader by .
he brethren at large. His only re- {
ward was exile, and for forty years .
more he went to school herding iocks ;
n INDIAN He had lessons to learn =
hat only retirement from the hurly- L
urly OF the times could teach. And
l the solitudes of the desert he grad n
ally grew into the plan that God had ;
him. Then he was ready. The {
all was ready to be given. Hence, i
lie incident of the burning bush. =
Elizabeth Barrett Browning once "
rote. II
'Earth's crammed with heaven.
And every common bush afre with
God;
And only he who sees takes off his
shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck he
blackberries.' is
This quotation had its genesis in sp
at bush experience of Moses. The Oh
sh famed with fire, but only Moses ne
the phenomenon. only he heard en-
E voice. To others in the neighbor-
cd a bush was a bush only. But to 81
oses. whose soul had been feeding irr
the divine message, and whose sol
nit was now attuned to hear Gods tir'
&c, that bush was the beginning of ha'
real career. He distinctly heard sic
name called, and quickly he re- par
I'd, Here am L. The task was sor
and it vas a terribly difficult the
But the leader was now found ain
o could measure III to it. But how ire
nble Moses was in the presence of my
divine voice? That was an evil ner
ice OF his fitness. He would not moi
III in where angels fear to tread pill
And Moses said unto God, Who me
m /, that should go unto Phar-
and that should bring forth Mi
he children of Israel out OF Egypt
Gods response overruled all OBJ
lions; Certainly, | will be with
e." The certainty of Gods pres a d
e. From that time there was no tax
It that the leadership of Israel was Tn
the hands of a God-sent man. live
ne n has said that ma hea