The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-29
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Prepared Especially For The Repub-
leans Readers by Rev. U. s.
Wright, ID.

Prepared Especially For The Repub-
leans Readers by Rev. U. s.
Wright, ID.
SUNDAY, AUGUST l, 1926.
THE DELIVERANCE AT THE
RED SEA.
Exodus 13:17;15:21.
Jehovah is my strength and song. and he is
become my salvation-Ex. Is :2I.
THE MIGRATION
The world is full of moving people.
America knows we'll the coming of
great masses of her population from
other lands and today there is pres
sure upon her entries as great as at
any earlier period in her history. And
the roots of all her families run across
the sea and gained their first growth
under far-off suns. Work and wages
are the present lure from terrific eco
nomic conditions in other lands. An
earlier urge was land hunger among
those who were dispossessed by land
barons. They built our great West
under our homestead enactments. Pill
grim and Hugenot came for religious
and political reasons and this migra-
ton of the Hebrew was caught up in
the same forces that have impelled
our own coming. For it was first of
all a religious movement born of a re-
vival of the faith of the fathers I'M
der the preaching of Moses. Had it
not been for that new burst of belief
in Jehovah, Israel would never have
moved from Egypt. 1t lifted them
out of their despair and did for them
what the message of hope did for the
golfers of England. There was the
economic urge also, the political pull
of voiceless section of the people,
the land hunger of those who lived
upon crown lands without any posi-
bility of ownership. Moses found
ready soil for the planting of his mes
sage that even in the face of the hos
tility created by the strawless bricks
continued to sprout adherents. For
God uses the same forces that are
part of the man He made in this CEN
fury that He did then and the reac-
lions differ only in the machinery they
use.
Finally the ebay" arrived, though
this one happened to be might" The
hosts were already marshalled for the
Passover feast, girded and shod for
travel, SO that there was no delay in
the shrew planning of Moses to
waste not a minute of time before the
reaction which he expected should
block the permission to depart. How
many there were is uncertain. The
word Thousand" can be translated
''family" also, so that no one can GER
tainly declare whether 100000 or 600
families of folks Remembering how
many fighting men Abraham could
muster, born in his own house." it
would be in any case no inconsidera-
BILE migration that rendezvoued at
Succoth for the journey. So complete
was the organization set up by Moses
that even the mummy of Joseph was
thought of in the hurried departure.
THE DETOUR
Thrust out hastily by the panic
stricken Egyptians, they turned to-
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coast and was the swiftest way to
reach the goal Of their desire. But
the Philistines were there and they
were in no condition to face these
seasoned fighters. There may have
been other reasons for the decision
One lay in the religious experience of
their leader. Moses had his own pur-
poses clarified, his own soul famed
into flame of devotion, his own con-
seriousness of the presence of God in
tensifed at Sinai, and we inevitably
wish to lead others to the place of
our own highest experience. "Come
with US to Mountain Lake INSTITUTED"
is fair example. Eagles Mere, Sill
Yer Bay, Mortified, and others among
many that hold the same invitation.
Remembering that it was at base a
religious venture, Moses thru whose
deepest life God was having speech
could scarcely turn in any other direc-
tion than over the detour that the
march followed. There was another
in the defensive system of Egypt
whose invaders were usually from the
East. A line of forts had been built
across the isthmus and strong guards
kept the gates of the empire against
assault. They would be very likely
to halt the servants until orders could
be received about this unexpected ir-
ruption of the workers. No orders
had been given, because they were
hurried out, but the stop would have
been certain, and in order that it
might be avoided Moses turned to-
ward the South, and at the same time
we find them facing the sea they had
fanked the forts and were facing an
open path beyond them into the will
derness. God guides, but He does it
thru the materials lying in the lives
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