The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-22
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Prepared Especially For The Repub-
leans Readers by Rev. U. S.
Wright, ID.

The PASSON Eli.
Exodus 11:1-12:36.
Our passover also hath been sacri-
feed, even Christi Corinthians
SCI. 49,. Z.
THE PREPARATION.
Whatever hour the clock strikes
has been preceded by the slow turning
of hidden wheels until the sudden re-
lease startles the hearer into con-
seriousness of passing time. 1t is true
in history also. No event is isolated.
1t has come out of the accumulated
pressure of slowly stored forces that
some trivial event, mayhap, has re-
leased. No one imagines that MUIR
der, even of Prince, was response
BILE for the tragedies of the World
War. Years of suspicion, of secret
compacts, of slumbering hatreds
burst thru the smoke of that old
pistol and embroiled world, The
same thing is true of any social move
-ment. 1t was true in Egypt in that
long-ago day. Moses came with his
heart a thrill from its new contact
with Jehovah to a sodden mass of
slaves. They had no initiative and no
hope. He called together their elders
so far as the work conditions per-
mitted and shared his experience un-
til they, too, heard the voice and saw
the flaming vision. These then be-
came the heart of an organization
that presently was all inclusive. They
presented their claims to Pharaoh.
One surprising thing is that with all
his arbitrariness and absolute power
there was easy access even for slaves
to make their plea. 1t was paternal-
ism but there were no closed doors to
a man to man discussion. That runs
all thru the story for Moses seems to
have had as much liberty to enter the
palace as the monarch himself. Of
course there was refusal and in
creased tasks but there was also the
continuance of the organization which
held together under the heavier pres
sure. Education continued, agitation
kept the issue in the minds of all, I'M
til the day of actual achievement
crowned the skilled tactics of Moses
and the nation had a birth that is
part of world history. From slaves to
citizens is a long journey as America
well knows but that this son of the
race was able to win chance for his
people and to win their awakening to
embrace it marks him as one of the
worlds great.
THE LARGER ACCOMPLISHMENT
Moses found Egypt accepting the
work of whole race as its right and
riding to prosperity upon their labor.
He claimed that they had the right
for leisure enough to worship their
own God. 1t was fundamental but it
involved mighty changes in the social
situation. Yet he brought Egypt to
accept his Interpretation of events
and to hurry the Hebrews out of the
land. The story of the struggle is an
epic. 1t holds one disaster after
another all of which are native to the
Nile. Floods sweeping down the de-
caying vegetable matters discoler the
waters until they are too foul for use.
The receding waves leave the muddy
Dose to breed frogs, dying they give
birth to flies, lice and disease that
spreads from beasts to men. Hail
and thunder swept the grain ready
for harvest, locusts invaded the green
acres and left them desolate. Sand
storms brought darkness that could
be felt and all nature seemed leagued
against the fortunes of Egypt. Moses
kept one idea at the fore thru them
all; these are the punishments for
your treatment of the Hebrews.
prosperity is linked with your moral
relationships" was his contention and
it finally carried the majority into ac-
cord The practice of brotherhood as
the sole solution of social ills ulti-
mately got its hearing. 1t has re-
peated itself in every age. Slowly
the moral issues of slavery in our
own land became the possession of
the majority and they determined
that brotherhood should rule instead
of class and the emancipation declara-
tion followed. Slowly the ma
jority became convinced of the
moral wrong of the saloon and wrote
that conviction into the law, deter
mined that brotherhood should super
cede the exploitation of privilege.
War will disappear in the same fash
ion as will other crimes against the
spirit of goodwill.
THE ELIMINATION
Moses was as astute as any modern
who keeps his ear to the ground. He
sensed the approaching end and
caught Gods direction thru his init
mate relations with the Almighty.
There was to be last night in the
great drama of national deliverance.
There was to be the family feast. The
slain lamb had been long familiar but
it should now have a new Significance