The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
MOSES CALLED TO DELIVER
 ISRAEL

MOSES CALLED TO DELIVER
 ISRAEL Exodus 3: 1-12 1. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the hackside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. | ?. And the angel of the Lord ap- peared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush and he looked and, behold, the bush with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
 3. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
 4. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto nhim out of the midst of the bush, and said. Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am !.
 And he said, Draw not high hither put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
 6. Moreover He said. I am the God, thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
  seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for know their sorrows.
 8. And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them ip out of that land unto good land and large, unto Il land flowing with milk and honey {; unto the place of the Cannanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
 9. Now, therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me l: and l have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them:s
 10. Come now, therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the chill dren of Israel, out of Egypt.
 H. And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the chil- dren of Isreal out of Egypt?
 12. And He said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be token unto thee, that have sent thee When thou hast brought forth the peo- pie out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
 lGist Of Lesson
 Four hundred years have passed since the famine and the favor of God had made Joseph Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Tutankhamen and the oth- CT Pharoahs.
 And now here is the story about a man who had lived in affluence and ease, as son to an Egyptian princess who, one day saw man of his own Hebrew blood being bulldozed by an Egyptian taskmaster, who had killed the native, hid his body in the sand meath the shadow of a pyrimad. fled the country. and in the wilderness of Midian found refuge, met and married q shepherd-girl, and himself at the age of 10 became the keeper of Jethro $ cattle and sheen.
 There amid the sand and sagebrush he found the greatest opportunity of his life at the age of so he discovered holy ground on perhaps some of the poorest real estate on earth. He be- came one of the transcendent charac ters of history.
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning was thinking about this story and it's les son. when she wrote:
 Earth's crammed with heaven. And every common bush afire with God And only he who sees takes off hi, l shoes.
 During the life time of Joseph al went well with the people of Israel who had sought refuge in the valley O the Nile. But time came when crude stiff-necked. ignorant and domineerin, prince succeeded to the throne-"Ther, arose king who knew not Joseph. This new pharaoh cared nothing fol the career or the memory of the grea Jew who had been probably the great est statesman that nation of calf worshippers ever saw.
 This new ruler had a census taker and found that there were too many Jews among his subjects for the bes interest of animal worship and auto cratic government. He further re stricted their liberties and doubled their taxes. Over the great mass O those who were dependent upon Egyp tian landlords and leaseholders, he SC