The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-15
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Prepared Especially For The Repub-
leans Readers by Rev. U. s.
Wright, DID,.

willingly enough. He heard and went,
taking with him all the warm love i'm
parted by Mother Jocebad, by Little
Mother Miriam, by ash-marked Am
ram and task-driven Aaron. And in
the palace he knew to the full the
compassion Egypt might confer and
learned her strength and her pride
until the day came when he walked in
princely fashion Throughout her bor-
der. He absorbed her culture and
imbibed her life. Strange that he did
not wed her daughter! Some of that
old, stubborn, Hebrew strain kept him
from separating by setting up an
Egyptinn home, and the prince could
could not marry a slave girl. The
event of the overseer was not the be-
ginning of his choosing, but an ex-
preston of it. He had long ago re-
fused the allurements of Egypt. Now
like John Brown of Harpers Ferry
fame, he would rouse a slave revolt
and lead them to liberty. But in both
cases the slave refused to bulge and
the benefactor bore the bruise.
Plunging into the desert the lad of
the river valley climbed into the fast
nesses of the hills where he was safe
from any pursuit. He took girl of
the skin tent for wife. His past was
dead and he was done forever with
Egypt of both palace and hut 1t was
not love match, but merely a lock
on the gate through which he had fled,
and she was never a factor in his life,
nor does he seem to have had much
regard for the children with which
they were blessed. They have no
share in the history and were left
behind with their mother when Moses
set out for Egypt. In the family of
Reul the sojourner took his full part
of the work and became a common
herdsman, driving his flock about the
hills in search of the scanty heritage
that called for tireless trips in many
directions. For years Egypt was a
closed book. Then the vast silences
sobered the hot passions that had
burned too fiercely in the plains and
he began to con over the old situa-
tons and to find reasons for the new
in which he found himself. Having
no comradeship in the tent he came
to long for some voice out of the still
ness in which he pondered the events
of yesterday and the hopes of to-
morrow. God grew real. The old
stories of the wanderers to whom He
had revealed Himself were ecounted
about the camp fires and he wondered
if this God of his ancestors might not
still speak to those who worshipped.
A sense of expectancy possessed him.
The thrill of dawn was in his mind.
He was coming to the place where
speech from God was as possible as
speech to God.
THE MEDIUM OF THE CALL
Perhaps the bush had famed be-
fore, but eyes that brooded over the
differences of his lot could not see
Many a time he may have cursed the
thorn bushes that tore his skin and
snatched the wool from his sheep.
"Sand and stones are bad enough, but
what God wanted to add a maze of
prickly bushes is more than l can
see," may have been often on his lips.
Yet it was just this cursed thing that
was the midium through which God
revealed Himself in blazing light. 1t
was thorn that brought Paul mes
sage of infinite tenderness and under
standing of Gods grace. 1t is the
vision of the thorn-crowned Christ
that has blazed across the centuries
the message of Gods love. 1t was the
thorn of blindness that wrote 80 love
that will not let me CO." 1t was the
flame of the furnace that burned the
bonds from the Hebrew children. 1t
is through the besetting thing from
which we would gladly escape that
God gives His most wonderful revela-
tion. What was it that he saw? The
old chronicler was not concerned with
any question of the kind He wasn't
a modern. We think in terms of ma
chinery, he reveled in the wonders of
the commonplace, seeking no expla-
nation. 1t may have been some cleo
trical phenomenon that enswathed the
bush in flame. 1t may have been the
flaming splendor of the dawn or dusk
that touched the bush on some lone
hill with radiance unseen before. That
old Highland shepherd who first saw
a heather bell under the microscope
sobbingly cried, "God forgive me for
crushing so many of them under my
rude FOOT" He too had vision and
heard voice. The greatest thing
about it is that across all the centu-
ries God speaks to men Of every age
in terms they can understand if they
will keep their souls eyes and ears
open.
THE CONTENT OF THE CALL.
1t was to the alert brain that the
vision came. The spirit was invading
an unexpected field. 1t was the open