The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-08
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Prepared Especially For The Repub-
LEANS Readers by Rev. U. s.
Wright, ID.

CHlLDHOOD AND EDUCA-
TION OF MOSES
Exodus PILL; Acts 1922
Train up child in the way he should
go and even when he is old, he will
not depart from it.-PrOverbs %: Is.
THE FIGHT FOR THE CHILD:
IT'S HEALTH.
Egypt found small relief in her
measures for repression. The harder
the Hebrews toiled the larger grew
their numbers. Some other plan must
be tried, and that fine CD figure on
the throne determined that no more
boys should become possible soldiers
in the army of some invader. They
must be put out of the way. So the
cold blooded proposition was given to
the nurses to kill every boy that was
born. Now if there were only the two
who are mentioned, Israel must have
had much smaller population than
has been credited to her. Probably
these were state Officials like our
health nurses who covered Goshen
territory, directing others acting as
their subordinates. Whichever it may
have been they were called on the
carpet because the plan was failure
and Pharaoh must get some other
means of working his will. Each
home must become the executioner in
the destruction of the family off
spring. For cruel brutality it is
about the limit of possibility. But
it does not appear to have worked any
better than the preceding efforts, if
one may judge by the numbers re-
ported leaving the country later.
In the home where Mrs. Jocebad
Amram lived, boy was born. And
mother-love, abetted by father affec-
ton, dared the wrath of the king, so
the babe lived. Who would know that
it wasn't girl? But in the days
ahead, when little folks, because of
the heat, discarded clothes, trouble
would be sure to come and it may be
that already whispers were going
about among the neighbors. "Mrs.
is keeping her boy and l had to give
mine up. She's no better than l am
well, just wait!" And when gossip
gets going not even baby is safe.
Mrs. Jocebad must devise some other
plan if her boy would live. And it
differs little today when mothers
must fight against DEGREES of the
kings of commerce who would de-
stroy the child with faulty food, with
unsanitary conditions, with wretched
quarters that pass for houses, with
nostrums that drug it into stupid
SAUNDERS, by fads that function only
with the pocket of the purveyor. Ver-
lily every mother must fight for the
health of the child every hour of its
infancy and the death rate is still far
too high among them.
THE FIGHT FOR THE CHILD:
IT'S CHANCE.
What chance had a slave baby?
Even a "goodly child" faces many
handicap in the position of its par
ents and this one was no exception.
1t was not much that this mother
asked, merely a chance to live, but
she was determined that he should
have that. SO she thought and prayed
and planned until the habits of the
princess and some inkling of her feel
ings called out the idea Of an appeal
to her pity. But just could it be done?
Jocebad puzzled over it until the
babsket boat leaped into her mind and
speedily into form. Then shee tucked
him in with tears and prayers and
committed him to the stream and to
Miriam. In most unexpected fashion
the babe himself, and as she toyed
with the tender flesh the voice of a
girl reused her to take some action in
the matter. 1t was suggestion that
she become its mother and it was
built upon dauntless faith in the
heart of woman. She would never
destroy a little baby cast into her lap.
She was too good even to think of any
such thing, was the implication and
the solution of the difficulty presented
upon the basis of such trust complete
ly carried her over to the doing of the
thing suggested And the child got
his chance not only thru that faith
but thru faithfulness also. There was
little girl with all the witchery of
the stream and shore who refused to
do anything but watch. Suppose she
had played and the vital moment
had passed, then all history would
have been different. And it is always
true that Gods plans are worked out
thru the fidelity of some one so that
even child's faithfulness helps to
shape the destinis of the world.
THE FIGHT FOR THE CHILD:
ITS EDUCATION.
Every child comes into the world
knowing nothing and with only a
bundle of possibilities that must be
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